Cloud Security Investments Surge in Asia/Pacific Amid AI Threats and New Cybersecurity Mandates – IDC - October 10, 2025

According to IDC’s Securing the Cloud: Key Priorities Driving Security Investments in Asia/Pacific, enterprises in Asia/Pacific are accelerating cloud security spending, driven by hybrid cloud adoption, AI-driven cyber threats, and new government mandates.

Cloud security investments continue to be prioritized as Asia/Pacific enterprises ramp up migrating workloads and data on multiple cloud environments. Organizations are investing in solutions that support business continuity and digital resilience strategies, implementing security tools, such as disaster recovery solutions, data security, governance, and incident response to minimize downtime and faster response and recovery from potential cyber threats.

“The cloud security market is complex and fragmented, with organizations balancing innovation and the growing demand for AI-powered tools against the need for integrated security infrastructure,” says Yih Khai Wong, senior research manager, Cybersecurity Products and Services, IDC Asia/Pacific. “For security providers, capabilities in Zero Trust, CNAPP, automated threat detection, and regulatory compliance will be critical to building resilience and trust among Asia/Pacific enterprises.”

As cloud adoption accelerates acrossAsia/Pacific, technology providers must be razor sharp in identifying opportunities across the cloud security solution ecosystem. With varying levels of digital maturity across the region, security providers will need to educate and be proactive in bringing along organizationsalong the cloud security journey by providing tailored solutions, showcasing best practices and relevant case studies and supporting and empowering enterprises looking to build cloud cyber resilience.

Yih Khai Wong, senior research manager, Cybersecurity Products and Services, IDC

What Tech Providers Should Prioritize Going Forward:

1. Enhance cloud security offerings by strengthening solution offerings such as Zero Trust, IAM, CNAPP, CSPM, CWPP, etc. as key enablers to a robust multi and hybrid cloud environment. Prioritize securing APIs and containerized workloads to prevent data leaks.

2. Prioritize data security and governance for multi and hybrid cloud environments. Ensure solutions help enterprises comply with latest government regulations such as India’s Digital Personal Data Protection, Singapore’s Cybersecurity (Amendment) Bill, Australia’s Privacy Act Reform, etc.

3. Automation of cloud security tools and ‘humanization’ of cloud security, with the aim of reducing complexity in using and managing cloud security solutions.

4. Integration of threat intelligence capabilities in cloud security solution offerings to ensure cloud platform visibility by providing threat detection capabilities and automated remediation solutions.

5. AI-powered cloud security solutions utilizing AI/ML algorithms to strengthen threat hunting capabilities, automated querying, predictive threat modelling and real-time remediation.

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