Mexico’s Cybersecurity Plan 2025-2030: Turning Ambition Into Defense

Mexico faces an increasingly complex cyber threat landscape, including ransomware, state-sponsored espionage, financial malware, data breaches, hacktivism, and cyber-enabled organized crime.

Its 2025–2030 National Cybersecurity Plan seeks to address these challenges through stronger governance, new legislation, a national operations center, integrated incident-response teams, cyber exercises, AI-enabled defenses, and expanded regional cooperation. Insikt Group assesses ransomware as the leading threat while highlighting growing risks from foreign threat actors and credential theft.

We recommend leveraging threat intelligence, applying international security frameworks, and fostering cyber education. Ultimately, Mexico’s progress will depend on turning an ambitious roadmap into durable institutions, effective regulation, and sustained international cooperation.

Mexico’s Cybersecurity Plan 2025-2030: Turning Ambition Into Defense

Mexico has no shortage of cyber threats. Ransomware attacks are rising, criminal groups are exploiting stolen credentials and financial malware, and state-linked threat actors increasingly view the country’s government agencies, universities, and critical infrastructure as attractive targets.

Mexico’s new National Cybersecurity Plan (hereinafter referred to as “Plan”), introduced in December 2025, recognizes many of these risks. However, it remains uncertain as to whether the government can build the institutions needed to address them proactively.

Mexico is ranked as a "Tier 2" nation in the ITU's 2024 Global Cybersecurity Index, placing it alongside Canada, Ecuador, and Uruguay in the upper ranks, trailing the United States (US) and Brazil, which have reached Tier 1 in the Americas.

Despite that standing, Mexico is generally perceived by cyber experts as lagging behind international standards in institutional capacity-building, with international cooperation identified as an area requiring growth.

Explore Mexico’s 2025–2030 Cybersecurity Plan. Learn about key threats, including ransomware, and the roadmap for building durable national cyber defenses.

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