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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.

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Terms

security control

→control de seguridadContext-dependent

Security frameworks and privacy law

Use control de seguridad for a security-framework control. Do not replace a legally defined privacy medida de seguridad with this term.

Sources: Official 2025 Federal Public Administration Cybersecurity Policy

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security measure; safeguard

→medida de seguridadLegal term, date-sensitive

Mexican privacy law

Mexican privacy law uses medida de seguridad for administrative, physical, and technical safeguards. Preserve this category rather than silently changing it to a framework control.

Sources: Current LFPDPPP, Chamber of Deputies · Current LGPDPPSO, Chamber of Deputies · 2011 LFPDPPP Regulation, officially listed as current

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