Cybersecurity and GRC terminology: English to Mexican Spanish
Use this guide when translating cybersecurity, privacy, audit, and GRC content for professionals in Mexico. It describes professional usage, not word-for-word equivalence.
Edition 2026.3. The companion guide, Spanish to English, lives on the Spanish version of this page. If something here is not how you would say it, tell us.
Legal note: Legal terms are date-sensitive, and this guide is not legal advice. Verify the current official instrument, authority, and procedure before relying on a legal translation.
How to use this guide
The default register is formal Mexican professional writing: security policies, audit reports, regulatory material, technical documentation, and professional training. Team chat, job titles, product names, commands, and quoted interface text may retain more English.
- Translate: Mexican professional writing normally uses the Spanish term.
- Keep in English: The English borrowing is the normal specialist term in Mexico.
- Context-dependent: The correct form changes with technical sense, register, organization, or jurisdiction.
- Official name or acronym: Preserve the official name, designation, or working acronym.
- Legal term, date-sensitive: Use the wording of the governing instrument and verify the current official text.
Consistency applies to the same sense, register, jurisdiction, and grammatical use. It does not require different concepts to share one translation.
Terms
API endpoint
→endpoint de API; punto de consultaContext-dependentAPI architecture and regulatory writing
Use endpoint de API in ordinary technical prose. The official CNBV API provisions define punto de consulta (endpoint, en inglés), so preserve punto de consulta when quoting or closely translating that instrument.
Sources: Official DOF text of the CNBV standardized API provisions
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CNBV
→CNBV; Comisión Nacional Bancaria y de ValoresOfficial name or acronymMexican financial regulation
When the source names the Mexican authority, preserve the official Spanish name and acronym rather than substituting a generic regulator label. CNBV is not automatically the correct regulator for every Mexican financial entity; identify the entity and governing instrument first.
Sources: National Banking and Securities Commission Law