RATIONALE The National Cybersecurity Strategy is based on the 2013-2018 National Development Plan. It is also cross-cutting, contributing significantly towards achieving the objectives of the “2013-2018 Program for an Approachable and Modern Government”, the “2014-2018 National Public Security Program” and the “2014-2018 National Security Program”. Given the increasingly widespread use of ICTs in the daily activities of individuals, private, and public organizations; its importance as a factor of political, social and economic development; the economic value of the information; and the inherent risk of the use of technology, it is imperative to have a National Cybersecurity Strategy for Mexico, that articulates the actions directed to individuals, private organizations, and public institutions. The trend of digitalization results in more people using technology, more services being connected to the Internet and depending on information systems for their operation, which means that vulnerabilities, risks, and threats increase. The International Telecommunications Union has indicated in several reports that cyber-attacks increased by 30% between 2011 and 2012, affecting 550 million people worldwide and causing economic losses of 110 billion dollars. The Cybersecurity Capacity Maturity Model developed in the 2016 Cybersecurity Report: Cybersecurity - Are We Ready in Latin America and the Caribbean?2 underlines that cybercrime costs the world up to US $ 575 billion per year, which represents 0.5% of the global gross domestic product. That is almost four times more than the annual amount for international development aid. In Latin America and the Caribbean, this type of crimes cost around 90 US billions per year. With these resources we could quadruple the number of scientific researchers in our region. Regarding the 2014 Latin American and Caribbean Cybersecurity Trends3 report sponsored by the Organization of American States (OAS), it is estimated that the costs inherent to cybercrime around the world amounted to 113 billion US dollars and, 3 billion dollars only for Mexico. 2 Inter-American Development Bank, IDB, 2016; Cybersecurity Are we ready in Latin America and the Caribbean? available at: https://digital-iadb.leadpages.co/ciberseguridad-en-la-region/ 3 See OAS Report on Latin American and Caribbean Cybersecurity Trends, available on the website https://www.sites.oas.org/cyber/Documents/2014%20-%20Tendencias%20de%20Seguridad%20Cibern% C3% A9tica% 20in% 20Am% C3% A9rica% 20Latina% 20y% 20el% 20Caribe.pdf