Security that enables the business.
We turn cybersecurity into a growth enabler: we protect your operations, data, and reputation without slowing the pace at which your organization operates. We do it with consultants who understand both risk and the business.
Enterprise cybersecurity protects the operation with controls that are monitored and tested.
Who delivers it
SUMāTO, a technology consulting and integration firm founded in 2016, headquartered in Mexico with an office in Bogotá and coverage across Latin America. In Spanish and in the client’s own time zone.
Where it applies
Identity and access, endpoint and network protection, continuous monitoring, vulnerability management, compliance, and continuity against ransomware or outage.
How it starts
With a 60-minute assessment of one real, measurable process. The organisation keeps the assessment deliverables even if it decides not to proceed.
Against which criteria
ISO/IEC 27001 and 27002, the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, the CIS Controls, and Zero Trust as the design criterion.
For leadership, security must translate into clear decisions: what gets protected, what the risk costs, and how the operation holds up in the face of an incident. We design security architectures that reduce the attack surface while enabling new ways of working, cloud adoption, and growth.
This is not about accumulating tools, but about building a coherent posture: controlled identities, least-privilege access, continuous monitoring, and response capability. That is how security stops being a defensive cost and becomes an operational advantage.
Digital risk is now business risk.
Threats evolve faster than traditional controls, and a single incident hits revenue, compliance, and trust all at once. These are the reasons security belongs on the leadership agenda.
Rising threats
Ransomware, targeted phishing, and digital fraud are now part of the operating environment of every organization. The question is no longer whether an attempt will happen, but how prepared you are to withstand it.
Regulatory compliance
Data protection regulations and frameworks such as ISO 27001 demand demonstrable controls. We work to align your operation with these frameworks and reduce your legal and regulatory exposure.
Operational continuity
A disruption caused by an incident can halt sales, production, and customer service. Security and continuity must be designed together so your business keeps running under pressure.
Customer trust
Your customers and partners entrust you with sensitive information. A strong security posture protects that relationship and becomes a commercial advantage over the competition.
Attack surface
The cloud, remote work, and the supplier chain expand your entry points. Without visibility and control, every new digital initiative adds risk that no one is managing.
Cost of inaction
Reacting late is always more expensive than preventing: recovery, fines, data loss, and reputational damage all add up. Investing in your posture protects the value you have already built.
A complete security practice, end to end.
We cover the full cybersecurity lifecycle, from strategy to managed operations. These are the capabilities we put at your disposal, backed by the technology of partners such as Fortinet.
Strategy and posture (Zero Trust)
We define your security strategy and design a Zero Trust architecture where nothing is trusted by default and every access is explicitly verified.
Identity and access management (IAM)
We implement identity control, strong authentication, and least privilege so that only the right people access the right things at the right time.
Endpoint and network security
We protect devices, perimeters, and network segments with modern controls that stop threats before they spread across your organization.
Monitoring and response (SOC / MDR)
We run continuous monitoring and managed detection and response to identify, contain, and neutralize incidents in real time, around the clock.
Vulnerability management
We identify, prioritize, and remediate vulnerabilities continuously to close gaps before an attacker can exploit them.
Regulatory compliance
We align your operation with ISO 27001 and the frameworks applicable to your industry, documenting controls and evidence for audits and regulators.
Cloud security
We secure your cloud environments with correct configuration, access control, and visibility, so cloud adoption does not open new risks.
Awareness and culture
We train your teams to recognize and report threats, because a security culture is the most cost-effective and enduring control there is.
Where security creates concrete value.
These are real-world scenarios in which we help organizations reduce risk, sustain operations, and meet their obligations.
Security posture assessment
We measure your current maturity level and deliver a roadmap prioritized by risk and business impact.
Zero Trust architecture
We design and implement a model where every access is verified, reducing the potential damage of any compromised credential.
Endpoint protection
We harden machines and devices against malware and advanced attacks with automated detection and containment.
24/7 monitoring and response
We monitor your environment continuously and respond to incidents at any time, without you having to build an in-house team.
Identity and access management
We bring order to who accesses what with strong authentication and least privilege across your entire operation.
Regulatory compliance
We align your controls with ISO 27001 and the applicable regulations, leaving the evidence audit-ready.
Incident response
We contain, investigate, and recover from an attack, minimizing the impact and restoring operations in an orderly way.
Continuity and recovery
We integrate security with continuity and recovery plans so your business can withstand and recover from any disruption.
Secure workspace
We enable virtual desktops with Secure Virtual Desktops, where data never resides on the user's machine, reducing the risk of leakage and theft.
What your organization gains.
Beyond the technology, well-implemented security delivers tangible results for leadership and for the entire operation.
Risk under control
Clear visibility of your threats and vulnerabilities, with a prioritized plan to reduce them steadily. Uncertainty turns into informed decisions.
Resilient operations
Your business keeps running even in the face of an incident, thanks to the integration of security with continuity and recovery plans. Fewer outages, fewer losses.
Demonstrable compliance
Documented controls aligned with recognized frameworks that streamline audits and relationships with regulators, customers, and partners.
Speed without sacrificing security
We enable cloud, mobility, and new ways of working with controls that protect without slowing innovation or productivity.
Reinforced trust
A strong posture protects your reputation and becomes a commercial differentiator with customers who value the security of their data.
Optimized investment
We focus your budget on the controls that reduce risk the most, avoiding redundant tools and scattered spending with no real impact.
A capability delivered by consultants.
We accompany every stage with consultants who combine technical and business expertise. That is how security is designed, implemented, and operated with sound judgment.
Diagnosis and posture assessment
We begin by understanding your maturity level, your critical assets, and your risks, to build an objective basis for decision-making.
Security architecture (Zero Trust)
We design the target architecture on Zero Trust principles, aligned with your enterprise architecture → and your business objectives.
Methodology and governance
We establish policies, roles, and governance processes so that security is sustainable and does not depend on isolated efforts.
Implementation and hardening
We configure, harden, and deploy the controls with best practices and the backing of leading technology such as Fortinet.
Managed operations
We run 24/7 monitoring and incident response, taking on the operational burden so your team can focus on the business.
Continuity and compliance
We integrate security with your business continuity (BCP) → and disaster recovery (DRP) → plans, and keep your compliance evidence up to date.
The criteria the implementation follows.
Implementation follows the same frameworks that order an assessment, so what gets built is auditable from day one and the evidence is ready when the audit arrives.
ISO/IEC 27001 and 27002
Management system. The implementation leaves the system documented with traceable evidence, which is what a certification or a client audit demands.
NIST Cybersecurity Framework
Coverage. Verifies the architecture covers all five functions and not only protection, which is where investment tends to concentrate.
CIS Controls
Order of execution. Determines what gets implemented first: the controls with the greatest risk reduction per unit of effort.
CIS Benchmarks
Configuration. Each platform is configured against its public baseline, not against the vendor's default.
MITRE ATT&CK
Detection. Monitoring rules are mapped to real attack techniques, so you know what detection covers and what it does not.
ITIL
Operation. Service management —incidents, changes, problems— follows recognised practices, with measurable service levels.
What you receive, in concrete terms.
Every engagement leaves tangible, documented, and actionable results your organization can put to use immediately.
- Security posture assessment with findings prioritized by risk and impact.
- Cybersecurity roadmap with initiatives, sequencing, and investment criteria.
- Zero Trust architecture design and identity and access management model.
- Documented security policies, standards, and governance model.
- Vulnerability management plan with a defined remediation cycle.
- Monitoring and response scheme (SOC / MDR) with agreed service levels.
- Compliance matrix aligned with ISO 27001 and the applicable regulations.
- Integration with continuity (BCP) and recovery (DRP) plans, and a secure workspace with Secure Virtual Desktops.
Common questions from leadership.
Where is the best place to start?+
Will security slow down my team's operation?+
Is SUMāTO ISO 27001 certified?+
Do I need to have my own security team?+
What technologies do you use?+
How does security relate to business continuity?+
What is Secure Virtual Desktops and how does it contribute to security?+
How this capability gets delivered.
Security technology without 24/7 operations is a dashboard nobody watches. These are the services that turn it into real defense.
SOC · Security Operations Center
24/7 monitoring, detection and response. It's what turns the tooling on this page into active defense.
Disaster Recovery Plan
How you resume operations after the incident, with RTO and RPO committed per system.
Business Continuity Plan
What keeps running while everything else recovers, and under which manual procedures.
NOC · Network Operations Center
Availability and performance of the infrastructure everything above runs on.
Managed Services
The whole operation delegated, with service level agreements and an accountable team.
How exposed is your organization today?
The Cybersecurity Assessment evaluates your posture against recognized frameworks, identifies exploitable gaps and ranks them by real business risk. You leave with a prioritized remediation plan.
Risk and regulatory pressure change by sector.
- Banking & Finance — high regulatory demands and fraud as a permanent threat.
- Government — citizen data and critical services that cannot stop.
- Healthcare — sensitive clinical information and connected medical equipment.
- Energy, Oil & Gas — operational technology and exposed critical infrastructure.
Enterprise transformation with SUMāTO.
This capability is part of an end-to-end enterprise transformation program —strategy, AI, data, automation, cybersecurity and cloud—, guided by strategic consulting. It is coordinated with Cloud —where security is decided in the architecture, not afterwards— and with Artificial Intelligence, which today is both an attack surface and a detection tool.
Cybersecurity, in depth.
- Cloud security: 90% of incidents are preventable — what almost always fails, and how it's avoided.
- WannaCry: lessons from the new era of ransomware — why patching is still the first line of defense.
- DevSecOps: security by design, not at the end — embedding controls without slowing delivery.
Understand your real security posture.
In 60 minutes we identify your priority risks and give you a first actionable read, with no commitment. Start by understanding where you stand.
The terms, defined plainly.
Six definitions that stand on their own away from this page: each explains the whole term without needing the paragraph before it.
Zero Trust
Zero Trust is the design principle that grants no trust based on network location: every access is verified by identity, device and context, every time. It replaces the perimeter as the security boundary.
SOC
A security operations centre (SOC) is the team and platform continuously watching security events, triaging what matters and triggering response. Its value lies not in detecting but in the time taken to contain.
MDR
Managed detection and response (MDR) is the service in which a third party operates the monitoring and executes the agreed containment, rather than merely raising an alert. It covers organisations that cannot sustain their own 24/7 security shift.
Vulnerability management
Vulnerability management is the cycle of identifying, prioritising and remediating technical weaknesses. Prioritisation is what matters: a list of thousands ranked only by theoretical severity does not say what to fix first in your operation.
IAM
Identity and access management (IAM) governs who exists as a user, what they may do and for how long. It covers joiners, leavers and changes, and it is where the risk left by access nobody revoked accumulates.
BCP and DRP
A business continuity plan (BCP) defines how the business keeps operating during a disruption; a disaster recovery plan (DRP) defines how systems come back and in what order. A plan that has not been tested is not a plan.