QUITO, Ecuador: Resecurity, the U.S.-based cybersecurity company, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with CiberPOL, the National Cybercrime Unit of the Ecuadorian National Police, establishing a framework for technical cooperation on cybercrime prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution as governments across Latin America confront increasingly sophisticated digital threats.
The agreement was signed by Jorge Chungandro, Resecurity’s Business Development Manager for Latin America, and Lieutenant Colonel Héctor Gonzalo García Cataña, Head of CiberPOL. The arrangement applies specifically to cooperation between Resecurity and the specialised cybercrime unit rather than to the Ecuadorian National Police as a whole.
Under the agreement, Resecurity is expected to contribute cyber threat intelligence, specialised technical assistance and technological expertise, while the two sides will work on professional capacity building, training and knowledge-sharing initiatives aimed at strengthening CiberPOL’s investigative capabilities.
The partnership reflects a broader reality confronting law-enforcement agencies: cybercrime has become increasingly borderless, technically complex and difficult for police institutions to tackle without access to specialised intelligence and private-sector expertise.
Threat Intelligence and AI Move Closer to Police Investigations
At the centre of the agreement is cyber threat intelligence, or CTI — the collection and analysis of information about threat actors, malicious infrastructure, attack methods and emerging cyber risks.
The cooperation is expected to include early-warning capabilities, AI-based analytical tools, technical workshops, specialised training programmes, seminars and practical exercises.
For cybercrime investigators, such capabilities can be particularly important because digital investigations often extend well beyond the jurisdiction in which the original complaint is filed.
An online-fraud operation targeting victims in Ecuador, for example, may rely on infrastructure hosted abroad, stolen credentials traded through underground forums, cryptocurrency transactions or criminal actors operating across several jurisdictions.
The agreement is intended to give investigators stronger access to intelligence and technical expertise that can help connect those fragments.
“Effective cybercrime investigations depend on timely intelligence, trusted cooperation and continuously evolving technical expertise,” Chungandro said in announcing the agreement.
He said Resecurity would contribute its threat-intelligence capabilities, specialised technologies and practical knowledge to help strengthen Ecuador’s investigative capacity against increasingly sophisticated cybercrime.
A Public-Private Model for Fighting Borderless Crime
CiberPOL is the specialised cybercrime unit of Ecuador’s National Police, responsible for addressing offences committed through or involving information technology.
Its work includes investigations into online fraud, unauthorised system access, malicious cyber activity and other crimes involving digital infrastructure, while operating alongside the country’s judicial and prosecutorial authorities.
The partnership with Resecurity illustrates an increasingly common feature of contemporary cyber policing: law-enforcement agencies are turning to private cybersecurity companies for capabilities that would be difficult to develop internally at the same speed at which criminal techniques are evolving.
Threat actors can change domains, infrastructure and attack techniques within hours. Malware families evolve rapidly. Fraud networks exploit new payment systems and communication platforms. Artificial intelligence is lowering the barrier for convincing phishing, impersonation and automated social engineering.
Against that environment, static training is rarely enough.
The agreement therefore places considerable emphasis on continuing professional development rather than on a single technology deployment.
Technical workshops, exercises and intelligence sharing can help investigators understand not only how a particular attack occurred, but how the wider criminal ecosystem operates.
Latin America’s Cybercrime Challenge Is Becoming More Complex
The timing is significant for Latin America, where governments, companies and citizens are confronting expanding exposure to ransomware, financial fraud, credential theft, data breaches and organised cybercrime.
The region’s accelerating digitalisation has created economic opportunities but has also widened the attack surface available to criminal groups.
Resecurity said the new framework is intended to combine CiberPOL’s investigative mandate with the company’s international experience in cyber threat intelligence to improve operational readiness and support Ecuador’s broader response to cybercrime.
Founded in 2016, Resecurity provides technologies covering cyber threat intelligence, fraud prevention, endpoint protection and risk management, and works with corporate, government and law-enforcement organisations internationally. The company is also associated with the World Economic Forum’s Cybercrime Atlas initiative and several security and industry organisations.
The Ecuador agreement is therefore more than a conventional technology partnership. It reflects the increasingly blurred line between public-sector investigations and private-sector cyber intelligence.
Cybercrime networks operate internationally, move quickly and often possess technical capabilities that require investigators to continuously update their own methods.
For Ecuador, the challenge is not simply detecting more cybercrime. It is ensuring that investigators have the intelligence, training and technological support needed to follow digital evidence wherever it leads.
The new Resecurity-CiberPOL partnership is intended to build precisely that capability.
