CXOInsights by CXOCIETY · 2026-06-01 · 21 min
In 2026, the risk engineer in Asia faces a fractured reality. Geopolitical decoupling has splintered supply chains across Southeast Asia, while simmering South China Sea tensions directly threaten subsea cables - the region’s digital arteries. Concurrently, climate-driven heatwaves stress power grids, collapsing OT systems in manufacturing hubs. The core dilemma is no longer single-peril analysis but the "poly-crisis": ransomware demands spiking as a grid fails, or a sovereign cyber operation triggering an insurance exclusion. For Asian risk engineers, resilience means stress-testing for layered shocks - where a trade war, a flood, and a data exfiltration all arrive on the same Tuesday. Vivien Bilquez , global head of Cyber at Zurich Resilience Solutions, answers the following questions on resilience imperatives as the region faces its most challenging crises to date. 1. To set the context for our dialogue, please briefly provide a state of resilience for organisations in Asia today? 2. With global trade splitting into US and China-centric blocs, which regulatory regime (export controls, data localization) costs/is costing/will cost businesses in Asia the most to operate under? 3.
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