Evaluating Mexico’s New Cybersecurity Plan
Brief
Executive Summary
Mexico recently unveiled a new National Cybersecurity Plan to be implemented over the remainder of this decade. The proposed plan lays the foundation to address the top cybersecurity threats Mexico has identified, including organized crime, geopolitical threats, and emerging artificial intelligence (AI) threats.
The plan comes at a critical moment, as repeated cyber incidents across federal, state, and local institutions in Mexico have exposed the need for a more coordinated national response to reduce the risk of data theft, ransomware, service disruptions, and institutional reputational damage.
Insikt Group analysis of cyber trends from 2020 to 2026 found that Mexico has historically been primarily impacted by ransomware, financial malware and fraud, and hacktivism.