By Region · Latin America
GRC where the rules are being written now
Latin American security teams answer to financial regulators like Brazil's central bank and the international frameworks their customers demand, while a fast-moving wave of GDPR-inspired privacy laws, led by Brazil's LGPD, reshapes the ground beneath them.
The landscape
Security by sector, privacy by wave
Latin America has fewer blanket security mandates than some regions, so the pressure comes from two directions. Financial regulators lead: Brazil's central bank requires a cybersecurity policy and specific controls of the institutions it oversees, and Mexico's banking authorities do the same. And for any business selling across borders, ISO 27001, SOC 2, and PCI DSS are the reports customers ask for before they sign.
Privacy is where the region is moving fastest. Brazil's LGPD set the template, and its regulator, the ANPD, has become Latin America's most active, even moving against global tech firms. Chile's new law and its first data-protection authority take effect in 2026, Mexico has tightened its rules, and more countries are following close behind.
Why it is hard
Every country at a different stage
One market has a mature regulator with real enforcement, the next is standing up its first data-protection authority, and a third is mid-reform. A control that satisfies Brazil's LGPD and its central bank may need reworking for Mexico or Chile, and the target keeps moving as new laws come into force.
Managed country by country, that is duplicated controls, duplicated evidence, and a compliance map that goes out of date as fast as the region can legislate.
How SimpleRisk fits
One control library, every obligation
SimpleRisk treats Latin America's shifting landscape the way it should be treated: as one connected set of controls, mapped once and extended as each new law and regulator arrives.
- Map once, satisfy many. Through the Secure Controls Framework, one control maps across LGPD, Brazil's central-bank requirements, ISO 27001, SOC 2, and 250-plus frameworks, so you test once and satisfy many at the same time.
- Keep up as the region legislates. When the next country's law comes into force, extend the controls you already have instead of starting over.
- Prove it on demand. Define tests, run audits at the framework, control, or test level, and hand any regulator exactly the evidence it expects.
- Deploy to your requirements. Run SimpleRisk open source, on-premise, or as SaaS, so data-residency requirements across the region stay on your terms.
Bring the whole region into one platform
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