Mexico City, October 5, 2022.- With the aim of detecting, incorporating and developing future cybersecurity leaders in the country, the Universidad Panamericana and Mnemo Mexico, a multinational cybersecurity and technology company, signed a collaboration agreement.
With this agreement, through Mnemo's Young Talents program, engineering students nearing the end of their undergraduate or graduate studies will be able to enter the professional world with the most advanced cybersecurity technology developed globally, interacting with three CERT-certified SOCs(Security Operations Centers) that are part of the international organization FIRST(Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams).
During the protocol ceremony, held at our university, Dr. Alejandro Ordoñez Torres, Director of the School of Engineering, Dr . Salvador Beltrán del Río Madrid, Director of Institutional Development, and Dr. Victoria Carreras Cruz, Director of the Data Intelligence and Cybersecurity Engineering program, were present on behalf of Panamericana.
Mnemo Mexico was represented by Julián Garrido González, general manager, and Carlos Hernán Medina Leyva, director of alliances and new business development.
Relevant alliances
In his message, Dr. Ordoñez said: "the mission of the School of Engineering is to train professionals of academic excellence and with the vision to serve society, together with the imperative need to protect the cyber world in which more and more people live and coexist" .
He added: "This encourages us to generate alliances, such as the one signed today, which will allow Mnemo and Panamericana to fulfill this mission of protecting and serving the community".
Dr. Carreras said: "The Data Science and Cybersecurity Engineering program is the only one that generates, jointly, experts in the use of data science tools, artificial intelligence and cybersecurity from a deep and comprehensive understanding of computer science; it is a novel proposal and a solution to the growing need of the industry and the market for specialized professionals in the field.
World overview
Globally, and especially in Latin America, most of the professionals currently working in the cybersecurity area have obtained their skills through certifications or self-taught and not through specialized academic courses at the undergraduate level.
Some industry data indicates that in the U.S. alone there are more than 700,000 unfilled cybersecurity positions and worldwide the shortfall of cybersecurity specialists amounts to 3.5 million people.
Under this perspective, Julián Garrido highlighted: "this type of agreement promotes the early training of talent in the real world, under an accelerated learning methodology and with the mentoring of international teams, who work every day in the generation of solutions to raise awareness, protect, alert and mitigate the attacks faced by users and corporations".
He also added: "We celebrate the fact that Universidad Panamericana took the initiative to open the Cybersecurity Engineering program, which is an extremely important milestone to continue building a seedbed of professionals that is fundamental for cybersecurity in Mexico and other latitudes".
This collaboration program will facilitate the realization of academic and technological activities, the exchange of cultural and business knowledge and the promotion of talent with high ethical and professional values.
