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
threat
→amenazaTranslateAll cybersecurity registers
Use amenaza; cyber threat is ciberamenaza.
Sources: Official 2025 Federal Public Administration Cybersecurity Policy
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threat actor
→actor de amenazaTranslateThreat intelligence and financial security
Use singular actor de amenaza and plural actores de amenaza. This construction appears in current Banco de México financial-sector reporting. Agente de amenaza also occurs, but should not be mixed into a controlled vocabulary without a reason.
Sources: Banco de México Financial Stability Report, June 2026
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threat hunting
→threat hunting; caza de amenazasContext-dependentSOC practice and formal explanatory writing
Retain threat hunting in SOC roles, team dialogue, and procedure names. Use caza de amenazas in formal explanatory or government prose. Mexican official material uses the Spanish form, so it is not merely marketing translation.
Sources: Official 2025 Federal Public Administration Cybersecurity Policy
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threat intelligence
→inteligencia de amenazasTranslateIntelligence and security operations
Use inteligencia de amenazas for threat intelligence tied to indicators, adversary behavior, and defensive decisions. Do not replace it with the potentially broader ciberinteligencia.
Sources: Official 2025 Federal Public Administration Cybersecurity Policy · Banco de México Financial Stability Report, June 2026