14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft has announced the opening of a new cybersecurity center in Mexico, whose purpose is to protect local customers and extend the company’s efforts of blocking attacks in Latin America.
The new Cybersecurity Engagement Center in Mexico is based on the same approach as before and is supposed to become a local hub for everything cybersecurity, while also working in connection with the other centers and the Redmond headquarters in sustained efforts against security threats and attacks.
Just like it happened at the opening of the other cybersecurity centers, Microsoft executives praised this expansion, explaining that it’s playing a critical role in offering a high level of security to customers.
“At Microsoft, we are committed to invest in the region so we can bring our cybersecurity capabilities to customers by identifying current threats that affect the economy’s prosperity. By opening this Cybersecurity Center, we are offering our clients protection from attacks and security risks, as well as ways to detect them and find solutions,” said Jorge Silva, general manager of Microsoft Mexico.
Serving Mexico and Latin America
The new cybersecurity center will offer services to Mexican customers, but also to a number of other Latin American countries, and Microsoft says that it will attempt to dismantle criminal organizations relying on botnets.
Additionally, the cybersecurity center will be the home of security experts from Mexico and Latin America to collaborate with Microsoft engineers in their investigations, and it will also provide training for partners, including authorities and the public sector.
“This new center will work together with Microsoft’s Cybercrime Center in Redmond, Washington. The objective is to help companies and governments with security solutions, which help them in their digital transformation through the international support of the intelligence, data analysis, avant-garde forensics and legal strategies that we offer,” Jean-Philippe Courtois, executive vice president and president, Microsoft Global Sales, Marketing and Operations, said during his visit to the Cybersecurity Center in Mexico City.
Microsoft has also signed a deal with the Federal Police to work together in investigations involving cyberattacks and threats aimed at local customers.