Mexico. Cybersecurity must be a priority issue at the global level. Even more so in Latin America, a region where these issues are of special attention, since the culture and knowledge to prevent them is still scarce, said Rodrigo Ibarra, show director of InfoSecurity.
"There is a lack of knowledge of these issues, but if we turn our eyes to five years ago, we are much better and every day there is much more interest, mainly from the end user, which is fundamental for this to evolve quickly." He considered that the risks in all global regions are similar: "There is no different level from one region to another. Everyone in the world is vulnerable; what is missing is more awareness and culture of the issue," he said.
The coordinator of the exhibition, round of conferences and professional workshops -to be held from April 25 to 27 at the Citibanamex Center in Mexico City-, considered: "However, in Mexico and Latin America this phenomenon has been growing, because there were no legal guidelines or regulations to analyze these porblematics. These issues had not been incorporated into existing development or national security agendas. Mexico began to do so since 2009 with the Personal Data Protection Law and now it has been incorporated into the Development Plan in 2018, the year in which the first cybersecurity center in Mexico will be inaugurated."
Ibarra said that much of the solution to cyberattacks is information: "There has been no dissemination; no legal means have been created to infringe on people or companies that shared information they should not. There is still a lack of regulation for the penalties that existed for cybercriminals; it is still taken as a purely electronic issue and may have more importance than some physical crime."
He said: "We must be smarter, better understand those who want to enter to steal information and do harm and that is only done through intelligence: be faster and more far-sighted."
By Vladimir Martínez
