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New Tanium research finds 62% of organisations across Southeast Asia have experienced operational disruption from endpoint issues, leading to downtime (63%), data exposure (41%), and revenue loss (31%)
Key findings:
- Financial losses from endpoint incidents exceeded USD$1 million for some organisations, almost half (46%) of those lost more than USD$100,000, while 17% reported losses above USD$500,000
- 62% of organisations experienced operational disruption from endpoint issues, leading to downtime (63%), data exposure (41%), and revenue loss (31%)
- 43% of organisations have more than 10% of endpoints unknown, unmanaged, or non-compliant; 13% report over 30% in this category
- 41% are only somewhat confident in maintaining real-time visibility; 71?nnot detect critical issues as they happen
Singapore | 29 July, 2026: As geopolitical tensions and AI-driven modernisation accelerate, connected devices have become the front line of digital conflict. Tanium today released The State of Endpoint Management in ASEAN 2026 report, surveying 333 senior IT and security professionals across five Southeast Asian markets, revealing how poor visibility, slow patching, and fragmented security tools are leaving organisations vulnerable to USD$1 million in financial losses.
The Human Cost of Cyber Exposure
The data exposes a disconnect between confidence and reality. While 59% of respondents describe themselves as "very confident" in their ability to track devices, 43?mit that more than 10% of those devices are unknown, unmanaged, or non-compliant. A further 41% say they are only "somewhat confident" in maintaining real-time visibility. In sectors like healthcare, where digitisation is bringing legacy clinical devices such as imaging systems to patient monitors onto enterprise networks, these blind spots carry consequences that put patients at risk.
Only 29% of organisations can detect a critical issue within minutes. For 55%, identifying a single threat indicator takes hours, while attackers move freely through their environment. In the telecommunications industry where a single infrastructure failure can cascade into hours of disruption, this inability to detect and isolate an issue in real time is an operational crisis.
Critical Infrastructure, Financial Services, and the Compliance Gap
Patching lags just as badly. Only 16?n address critical vulnerabilities across the majority of their systems within 24 hours. Sixty percent of organisations are still relying on partially automated processes. In financial services, where core banking infrastructure often runs on legacy systems that cannot be patched without planned downtime, every delayed update is a window of exposure that regulators and attackers are watching.
The compliance burden compounds this further. Half of ASEAN organisations face quarterly IT asset audits, yet only 50?n prepare audit-ready data in under a week, with 46% needing between one and four weeks. As Singapore's Cyber Security Act tightens expectations around compliance, public sector agencies and operators of critical infrastructure still relying on manual audit preparation are falling behind the regulatory curve.
“Geopolitical conflict has gone digital, while AI is accelerating both innovation and attacks. The devices connecting it all are increasingly outside the visibility of the teams responsible for protecting them,” said Satyen Desai, RVP, ASEAN, Tanium. “This research reaffirms what we hear from customers across the region. The misconception between confidence and actual control is real, it is widening, and it is expensive. Organisations that consolidate onto a unified platform, automate their response cycles, and build continuous compliance into their operations are already seeing the difference. The question for every leader in this region is whether they act before an incident forces their hand." he added.
Budgets Are Moving
Seventy nine percent of respondents plan to invest in new security solutions within 12 months which is a clear signal this has become a board-level priority. The challenge will be investing in the right way: the top frustrations cited such as poor visibility, slow response times, too many disconnected tools point to fragmentation, not insufficient spend. Organisations that consolidate onto unified, real-time platforms will be best positioned to close the gaps that matter. Tanium's full findings, and recommendations for IT and security leaders, are available at www.tanium.com.
Methodology
The State of Endpoint Management in ASEAN 2026 was commissioned by Tanium and conducted by PureProfile in early 2026. The research surveyed 333 IT and security professionals across five Southeast Asian markets — Singapore and Indonesia (25?ch), Thailand (18%), and Malaysia and the Philippines (16?ch). Respondents spanned the full spectrum of organisational leadership, including management and IT operational managers (37%), IT directors (21%), VPs (18%), heads of department (15%), and C-suite executives including CIOs and CISOs (8%).
About Tanium
Tanium Autonomous Endpoint Management (AEM) offers the most comprehensive solution for intelligently managing endpoints across industries, providing capabilities for asset discovery and inventory, endpoint management, vulnerability management, risk and compliance, threat hunting & incident response, and digital employee experience. The platform supports 34M endpoints worldwide, including 40% of the Fortune 100, delivering increasingly efficient operations and an improved security posture at scale, with confidence, and in real time. For more information on The Power of CertaintyTM, visit www.tanium.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X.
