The Briefing
- Between January and May 2026, Peru logged 353,530 cyberthreat detections across 1,337 distinct malware families, with monthly peaks above 83,000 in March and April, according to ESET.
- 81% of Peruvian companies now report some level of AI activity—yet only 10% have formally approved internal AI policies, leaving the vast majority deploying the technology without governance or security controls.
- Peru's data protection regulator inspected 760 entities and issued fines totaling more than S/ 11.3 million in 2025, the year a new regulation introduced a mandatory 48-hour incident reporting window.
