Coparmex fights for more resources for cybersecurity in Mexico

The Economic Package for the year 2023 is “disconnected from reality and from the growth of crime that we suffer,” in the midst of the fact that Mexico “lacks a law of cybersecurity“, lamented the Employers’ Confederation of the Mexican Republic (Coparmex).

Coparmex considered that the Ministry of National Defense (Sedena) and the agencies in charge of national security and public security need to be strengthened, particularly in their cybernetic units to combat crimes, the business sector argued, after the hacking that the secretariat recently suffered, which could be considered one of the most serious attacks at a global level due to the capacity of exposed information.

“The need for a Federal Law on Cybersecurity has become manifest, which although it is already in the process of being created in Congress, it should give rise to an institutional body with an autonomous constitutional entity and with the creation of 32 authorities, one per entity. federation, public policies and budget allocation to deal with this type of threat in an agile way in a world increasingly dependent on information technologies”, said this Sunday the Coparmex it’s a statement.

Because the cybersecurity It is a priority investment, both for companies and the government, the employer sector already works at a table of cybersecurity experts within the National Security and Justice Commissionwhich has warned that extortion has grown 55.6% between 2018 and 2022 (with figures for the first four months).

Although total spending on security does reflect an increase, which is concentrated in Sedena With a real increase of 16%, it is unfortunate that it is related to the construction of emblematic works, not strictly with security tasks.

“While for the Ministry of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC) has a miniscule budget increase of 1% that does not respond to the needs when this year inflation has reached a rate of 8.7%. Without a doubt, investment in security must be reconsidered taking as an example what the governments of the United States, United Kingdom, France, Japan, Italy, Australia and Germany have done”, demanded the Private Initiative.

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