Latin America is experiencing a significant shift in its cybersecurity landscape, driven by the increasing sophistication of threats such as PIX payment fraud and ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure. As a result, security teams in the region are being forced to reevaluate their reactive approaches, which have proven costly in terms of downtime, data loss, and erosion of trust. The current posture of most Latin American security teams is largely reactive, meaning they respond to threats only after they have materialized, rather than proactively anticipating and mitigating them. This approach is no longer tenable, given the evolving nature of the threats and the potential consequences of inaction. To get ahead of these threats, security teams require access to specialized threat intelligence, automation capabilities, and integrations with existing security tools. By leveraging these resources, teams can adopt a more proactive stance, one that prioritizes operational resilience and intelligence-led security. The recent ransomware attack on Intel, which highlighted the sector-specific risks faced by organizations, underscores the importance of this shift1. So what matters most to practitioners is that they must prioritize operational resilience planning to stay ahead of emerging threats and mitigate the risks associated with cyber attacks.