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Secure remote sites and autonomous fleets,
wherever the ore is.
Modern mines run autonomous equipment and remote operations centres over constrained links, across many jurisdictions. We monitor IT and OT around the clock, with response guardrails built for safety-critical systems.
What puts mining operations at risk.
Digital operations have made mines more productive and more exposed.
Ransomware that stops production
When IT goes down at a site, fleet management, processing control and scheduling can follow. Attackers price their demands around that.
Espionage on critical minerals
State-linked groups target geological data, reserve assessments and bidding information, especially in strategic minerals.
Autonomous equipment and OT
Haul trucks, drills and conveyors run on industrial networks where a cyber incident is also a safety incident.
Constrained remote links
Satellite and microwave backhaul limit visibility and make remote operations centres dependent on fragile connections.
Site-to-site spread
Flat networks let a compromise at one mine reach others, or the corporate network.
The obligations that follow your operations.
Regional requirements first, then the rules that follow a listing or an international partner.
| Framework | Who it applies to | What we help with |
|---|---|---|
| NCA Essential Cybersecurity Controls (ECC) and Operational Technology Cybersecurity Controls (OTCC) | Mining and processing operators in Saudi Arabia within critical national infrastructure scope | Controls assessment, OT gap analysis and monitoring evidence |
| UAE PDPL, Saudi PDPL and national data protection laws where you operate | Mining companies handling employee and contractor personal data, including at remote sites | Breach investigation and safeguards assessment for access, biometric and health data |
| IEC 62443 | Operators of the control systems that run extraction and processing | Zone and conduit design, maturity assessment and segmentation validation |
| Securities regulator cyber disclosure rules, such as the SEC's | Listed miners, including those listed in the US | Cyber risk assessment and incident facts that support disclosure decisions |
| SOX IT general controls | Miners listed in the US | Access, change and system-integrity control testing for financial reporting systems |
| ISO 27001 | Miners whose joint venture partners or offtake counterparties require it | Gap assessment and control evidence through Forseti |
Built for remote, safety-critical sites.
Remote operations security
Review of operations centre to site connectivity, satellite links and the segmentation that keeps one site's compromise from reaching another.
Autonomous fleet review
Assessment of fleet management and mine automation platforms down to the controllers and protocols that drive individual equipment.
Multi-site governance
Security programme leadership across jurisdictions, with OT governance that site managers can actually run.
From real client environments.
Guardrails that knew when not to act
MSOC response guardrails prevented the automatic isolation of a domain controller and a firewall on noisy triggers.
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How we help mining companies.
MSOC
Autonomous detection and response across sites and head office, with guardrails that keep safety-critical assets out of automatic containment.
Learn more →OT & ICS security
Assessment and monitoring for fleet management, processing control and the networks behind them.
Learn more →Network segmentation
Separate sites, operations centres and corporate IT so one compromise stays contained.
Learn more →IR retainer
Pre-agreed terms and guaranteed response from four hours down to one, remote first, for incidents at site or head office.
Learn more →MÍMIR intelligence
Tracking of the groups that target resource companies and critical mineral producers, from MTAC analysts.
Learn more →vCISO
Security leadership for building or maturing a programme that spans IT, OT and jurisdictions.
Learn more →What buyers ask.
Our sites have limited bandwidth. Can you monitor them?
Yes. We size collection to the link and prioritize the telemetry that matters, so remote sites are covered without saturating the connection.
We cannot risk an automated tool stopping a haul fleet.
You set the boundaries. Safety-critical assets can be monitor-only, and anything irreversible waits for senior sign-off.
We operate in several countries. Where does our data go?
We deploy to meet each client's data-residency requirements, including in-country where regulation requires it, and we operate to the group's SOC 2 Type II controls.
Talk to someone who understands remote operations.
Put a specialist on a call to scope site monitoring, an OT assessment or a response retainer. No charge, no commitment.