When Information Security Becomes Everyone’s Problem
On March 25, 2026, Sotera Digital Security brought together approximately 25 senior leaders from Spain’s public administration and private sector for Un diálogo entre sectores: Seguridad de la información en 2026 — a closed-door roundtable in Madrid designed to cut through the noise and have an honest conversation about where information security in Spain actually stands.
The discussion was led by Juan Salom, Colonel of the Guardia Civil (Ret.), and Carlos Seisdedos, CEO of Magneto INTelligence.
The Conversation That Needed to Happen
What emerged over the course of the morning was a picture that many in the room recognized but rarely say out loud: Spain’s organizations — public and private alike — are navigating an increasingly sophisticated threat landscape while still working through fundamental questions of governance, culture, and cross-sector coordination.
The discussion touched on where improvement is most needed across the prevention-detection-response-recovery cycle, how to balance operational agility against the reality of protecting sensitive information, what public institutions can realistically adopt from private sector practice, and what better public-private collaboration would actually require in practice — not in principle.
One theme emerged with particular urgency: mobile security remains one of the most under-addressed vulnerabilities in institutional environments. While organizations have invested heavily in perimeter and network security, the devices that senior officials and executives carry daily — and the communications that pass through them — continue to represent a significant and underestimated exposure.
The Threat That Doesn’t Announce Itself
Among the most difficult challenges to defend against is targeted mobile spyware. Unlike conventional cyberattacks, mobile surveillance threats are designed to be invisible, persistent, and precise. They don’t trigger alerts. They don’t need a user to click anything. And their targets are typically the people an organization can least afford to have compromised.
For security leaders navigating the threat landscape in Spain and across the region in 2026, understanding the proliferation of commercial spyware is no longer optional — it’s a prerequisite for any serious information security posture.
Go Deeper
If mobile spyware is a threat your organization needs to understand better, our latest research covers how these tools have proliferated, who is being targeted, and what protection actually looks like in practice.
