18% of manufacturing companies in Mexico have suffered a hack: Index

A fifth (18%) of Mexican companies dedicated to the manufacture of materials or products have suffered a hack in the most recent year, said Agustín Tiburcio Sánchez, of the National Council of the Maquiladora and Export Manufacturing Industry (Index) during their participation in the Open Parliament on Cybersecurity.

The director of Information Technologies of the lobby of the maquiladora industry and of manufacture He said each of these cybersecurity incidents reported by companies that are part of the council’s membership cost about $2.3 million, according to a survey of council members. Index.

“The manufacturing industry considers cybersecurity legislation and the issuance of the cybersecurity law extremely necessary given the violations that our companies have suffered and the effects that they have brought to their operations,” said Sánchez.

The Open Parliament on Cybersecurity It was an exercise organized by the Science and Technology commissions of the Chambers of Deputies and Senators. In a virtual format, students, academics, public officials, civil society organizations, industry chambers and representatives of private companies poured their proposals on cybersecurity.

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Another of the factors highlighted by Sánchez was that several of the cyberattacks suffered by companies in the sector were not directed directly at them but at their service providers, that is, in their supply chain, a recurring theme during the different interventions of the parliament open in cyber security.

Recently, the cybersecurity company Nozomi Networks drew attention to the increase in the number of ransomware attacks against companies in the industrial sector and, in particular, in the manufacturing sector.

The director of Index assured that an awareness and evangelization campaign is necessary among industry workers, in order to reduce the risks derived from hacking. In the same way, it is necessary to have cyber security protocols, security systems in analogous networks, as well as to offer continuous education in these areas.

“Because of the above, our industry supports the cybersecurity law initiative; carefully requests to consider the allocation of items to address cybersecurity,” said Agustín Tiburcio Sánchez, who added that the manufacturing sector is developing a center for innovation in cybersecurity that requires the participation of the public, private and academic sectors.

rodrigo.riquelme@eleconomista.mx

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