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
data loss prevention
→prevención de pérdida de datosTranslateData-security product terminology
Prevención de pérdida de datos is the direct expansion used by many DLP products in their Spanish materials. Do not substitute prevención de fuga de información, which emphasizes a narrower disclosure or exfiltration problem.
Evidence basis: Professional usage judgment; no legal force is claimed.
That is not how I would say it
information leakage prevention
→prevención de fuga de informaciónTranslateInformation-security controls
Use this form when the control specifically addresses information leakage, unauthorized disclosure, or exfiltration. Do not treat it as an automatic expansion of every DLP product.
Sources: PRODECON information-leakage prevention example