Microsoft opens new cybersecurity centre in Mexico
As part of a global initiative to improve its customers' access to cybersecurity expertise, Microsoft will launch a cybersecurity engagement centre for Mexico and Latin American countries. By protecting, detecting and responding to security threats, Microsoft will develop its customers' cybersecurity capabilities, according the company's general manager for Mexico. The centre will focus on dismantling criminal organisations that operate through botnet schemes and will act as a headquarters for building technical capabilities. particularly among the public sector. In addition to the centre's launch, Microsoft will work closely with Mexico's government-owned Federal Police to improve its IT security programme.
The Cybersecurity Engagement Center will bring together technology, experience and services to support government efforts against cybercrime while also helping companies and citizens to be more secure.

MEXICO CITY - Feb. 24, 2017 - To reinforce its commitment to help people, companies and countries within Latin America to continue their journey towards digital transformation, Microsoft is launching a Cybersecurity Engagement Center in Mexico, part of a global initiative to present the company's unique perspective on matters of IT security, which is not only the result of several decades of experience in the development and ongoing improvement of software, but also of the operation of one of the industry's most robust and trustworthy cloud computing platforms.

At Microsoft there is a strong belief that having a fixed stance on operational security is the starting point, which also implies its continuous practice. This is made a reality by the company's goals that focus on protecting, detecting and responding to security threats.

'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,' explained Jorge Silva, general manager of Microsoft Mexico.

The center will serve Mexico and other Latin American countries. Some of its functions will include:

Taking advantage of Microsoft's proactive role in matters of fighting cybercrime, particularly in the dismantling of criminal organizations that operate through Botnet schemes

Allowing cybersecurity experts from Mexico and elsewhere in Latin America to work with Microsoft specialists to fight cybercrime together

Acting as a headquarters for the development of training activities in order to support the building and strengthening of technical capabilities; these activities are geared toward 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,' added Jean-Philippe Courtois, executive vice president and president, Microsoft Global Sales, Marketing and Operations, during his visit to the Cybersecurity Center in Mexico City.

In conjunction with the opening of this center, Microsoft is signing with the Federal Police (in representation of the Mexican government), a Government Security Program that reinforces the work of carrying out actions focused on technological research in order to promote IT security and also to prevent and fight crimes that are committed through the internet.

The agreement was signed by Manelich Castilla, commissioner general of the Federal Police, and Jorge Silva, general manager of Microsoft Mexico. Renato Sales Heredia, national security commissioner of Mexico's Secretariat of the Interior, and Jean-Philippe Courtois, executive vice president and president, Microsoft Global Sales, Marketing and Operations, were present as honorary witnesses.

'By opening this center, we are bringing Microsoft's offer of security increasingly closer to customers in order to be a strategic part of their transformation, and together we will create a country and a region that are more prosperous and productive, and above all, that are safer,' concluded Jorge Silva, general manager of Microsoft Mexico.

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Lead image: Jorge Silva, General Manager of Microsoft Mexico; Renato Sales Heredia, National Security Commissioner of Mexico's Secretariat of the Interior; Jean-Philippe Courtois, Executive Vice President and President, Microsoft Global Sales, Marketing and Operations; and Alejandra Lagunes, Mexico's National Digital Strategy Coordinator.