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
end-user device
→dispositivo de usuario finalTranslateGeneral device and asset terminology
Use this descriptive term when the source means a user's device rather than the endpoint-security category.
Evidence basis: Professional usage judgment; no legal force is claimed.
That is not how I would say it
endpoint (endpoint security)
→endpoint; punto final; dispositivo de punto finalContext-dependentEndpoint security and EDR
Retain endpoint in product names and common practitioner prose. Mexican institutional and procurement writing also uses punto final, puntos finales, and dispositivo de punto final; follow the source and the organization's controlled vocabulary. Do not treat every end-user device as an endpoint-security term.
Example: The EDR agent protects every endpoint. → El agente EDR protege cada punto final.
Sources: Telmex endpoint-security service · SCJN managed cybersecurity-service procurement