Scitum

Scitum is the cybersecurity services company of Telmex, part of Carlos Slim’s Grupo Carso/América Movil sphere, and is commonly branded as TELMEX Scitum. It began as a consultancy in the late 1990s; a 2020 company release cited 22 years in the market, more than 1,820 clients and over 650 specialists, and a 2023 report on its Palo Alto Networks alliance put the team at more than 870 security specialists across Mexico and Latin America.

Its core business is managed security delivered from its own cybersecurity and cyber-intelligence centres: SOC monitoring, SIEM-based alerting, managed endpoint protection, SASE, database and data-leakage protection, vulnerability and penetration testing, and risk analysis, many sold through Telmex business datasheets. In 2023 it expanded its Palo Alto Networks partnership to deliver Cortex XDR and XSOAR as a managed XMDR service, and in 2020 it announced a strategic alliance with BlueVoyant for Mexico. Its SCILabs unit publishes regional threat research, including a 2025 report on ransomware in Latin America.

Scitum’s public-sector work has been widely reported, including the 2018 cybersecurity monitoring contract with Mexico’s Instituto Nacional Electoral, and press coverage has listed clients such as Pemex, CFE, IMSS and SAT alongside large private companies and banks.