"The ratio is four or five to one compared what it was a few years back," said Goh in a media briefing today, referring to the rising number of CISOs in the region.

Goh said that even though CISOs are being appointed in almost all the verticals, there are two verticals where most CISO positions are coming up: FSI (financial services and insurance) and manufacturing.

This is a good sign and it marks the growing maturity of the security landscape here, he said.

"Today, security threats are borderless and enterprises in Asia are moving beyond parameter-based security," Goh said.

Some bottlenecks, however, remain in managing risk in the region. One of the bottlenecks, for example, is the culture of "I don't want to know" among some CIOs, explained Goh. There are still some CIOs who don't want to give as much importance to security as required by the threats to enterprises today, he said.