OT Cybersecurity for Mining Sites
RIGHT-SIZED SOLUTIONS TO FIT ALL COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS
Modern risks to mining enterprises include cyberattacks and data intrusions. To help keep employees safe, protect machinery, and avoid disruptions, industry leaders must prioritize OT cybersecurity for mining sites.
What We Offer
decades of hands-on experience
Operational focus to secure critical infrastructure
LeveL5Cyber offers advisory services that enable businesses to scale their operations and combat evolving threats. Our experts leverage decades of experience to provide solutions that optimize cybersecurity capabilities and drive towards program maturity.
Specialized Cybersecurity for the Mining Industry
LeveL5Cyber’s expert solutions address your company’s OT security needs while keeping in mind the operational realities your team faces. All of our cybersecurity services adapt to your industry’s needs:
- In-depth Risk Assessments of OT systems
- Skilled consulting and guidelines tailored to your company
- Creation of OT Segmentation Programs
- Ongoing support and implementation assistance
- Firewall Lifecycle Management
We work closely with your team to create cybersecurity plans that are cost-effective, functional, scalable, and realistic for your operations.
The Importance of OT Cybersecurity for Mining Sites
In the mining industry, cyberattacks target vulnerabilities in operational technology like automated equipment, programmable logic controls, and remote operating systems. Threat actors attempt to gain access to:
- Autonomous trucks and machinery
- Continuous miners
- Longwall mining systems
- Automated conveyor processes
- Drilling robots and blasting platforms
Network connectivity is important to maximize production output and work efficiency, but the potential exposure points also make it essential to implement strong cybersecurity safeguards.
Where We Fit In
LeveL5Cyber has decades of hands-on experience working in cybersecurity for the mining industry to address their specific needs and requirements. Our team understands the unique challenges and processes that exist and how to bolster cyber defenses within these arenas.
Services That Align to this Industry
Decades of Experience With Industrial Cybersecurity
At LeveL5Cyber, we’re the leaders in OT cybersecurity for mining sites. Our team helps large-scale mining companies comply with NIST, CMMC, and other industry standards. Contact us for more information right away.
Frequently Asked Questions
decades of hands-on experience
in cybersecurity
Organizations that have already taken steps to segment their manufacturing environments may realize that firewall hardware does not have the same long life expectancy that some traditional OT assets have. Similarly, firewall vendors generally don't support platforms in perpetuity either. So what happens at the end of that roughly 4-6 year lifespan? As if the cyber threats that organizations face weren't enough, old and unsupported firewalls pose a significant risk of a different nature. What happens if there is a hardware failure and there is no replacement available? And what is the overhead on the organization, and the risk, to replace hundreds of firewalls that are nearing the end of their support - before that support contract expires? LeveL5Cyber specializes in global programs of this nature including firewall refreshes, regardless of the platform or vendor, as well as implementing new firewalls for organizations that may not have begun their segmentation journey yet.
Segmenting a network means dividing it into smaller, isolated parts. In manufacturing environments, where the protection of sensitive information and critical infrastructure is particularly important, segmenting the network can be an effective way to reduce the risk of a cyberattack.
Industrial control systems (ICSs) are an integral part of critical infrastructures, helping to facilitate operations in vital industries such as electricity, oil and gas, water, transportation, manufacturing, and chemical manufacturing. The growing issue of cybersecurity and its impact on ICS highlights fundamental risks to the Nation’s critical infrastructure. Efficiently addressing ICS cybersecurity issues requires a clear understanding of the current security challenges and specific defensive countermeasures. A holistic approach—one that uses specific countermeasures implemented in layers to create an aggregated, risk-based security posture—helps to defend against cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities that could affect these systems. This approach, often referred to as Defense in Depth,
provides a flexible and useable framework for improving cybersecurity protection when applied to control systems.
An information system used to control industrial processes such as manufacturing, product handling, production, and distribution. Industrial control systems include supervisory control and data acquisition systems used to control geographically dispersed assets, as well as distributed control systems and smaller control systems using programmable logic controllers to control localized processes.
The OT cybersecurity strategy: Refines and supplements guidance from the organization-wide risk management strategy to address OT-specific constraints and requirements; Identifies the OT cybersecurity team and personnel; Addresses the OT cybersecurity operation model (e.g., insource, outsource, and/or use managed security services); Outlines the appropriate cybersecurity architecture for the various OT sites within the OT program; Defines OT-specific cybersecurity training and awareness
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