Commvault Study: Asian AI Ambition Outpaces Cyber Resilience

Asian enterprises are increasing their AI investments and deploying agentic AI, but their cyber resilience and recovery planning are lagging. This is according to new research commissioned by Commvault. The study, which surveyed 1,234 organizations across Asia, found that nearly all companies plan to increase AI investment in 2026. More than one third are already trialing or deploying agentic AI. Countries like Indonesia, Thailand, and Hong Kong are leading in this adoption. Here's the thing: as AI-driven systems become more common, non-human identities are gaining access to critical systems. The report indicates machine identities now outnumber human identities globally by as much as 82 to 1. However, most cyber resilience strategies still focus on human users. Only 34% of organizations have included non-human identities in their cyber resilience planning. What's interesting is that AI governance is also not keeping pace. Just 42% of organizations conducted comprehensive security and governance reviews before deploying AI. This leaves fewer than half confident they can detect compromised AI systems. The bottom line is that while Asia's AI ambition is clear, resilience planning needs to catch up to secure these autonomous systems effectively.