India, Oct. 22 -- The Kaspersky APAC report highlights a serious challenge for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs): cyber incidents can damage more than IT systems. In a survey of IT and security professionals across the Asia-Pacific region, 87% of respondents said their organisations had faced at least one cyber incident in the past year.

The findings point to a wider business risk, with stolen data, disrupted services and permanent losses affecting organisations already working with limited resources.

Among affected APAC businesses, 25% said their most harmful incident involved the theft of clients' personal data. Temporary disruption to customer-facing services, such as websites and online stores, affected 23%, while another 23%...