Australia’s resources sector faces a cyber moment
Connected mine sites across Australia are increasingly exposed to cyber risk as operational technology, corporate IT and cloud platforms merge.
The national picture is stark. The Australian Cyber Security Centre reported a sharp rise in cyber activity in FY2024-25, including over 42,500 calls to the Cyber Hotline and more than 1,200 incidents responded to by the ACSC, signalling growing pressure on critical infrastructure owners.
Those two facts should be enough to wake boards and chief executives. Modern mines are no longer isolated industrial outposts; they are distributed, cloud-linked systems that, when compromised, can halt production, endanger workers and ripple through national supply chains.
Modernising the industry’s remote operations, automated fleets and real-time analytics have come with a simple trade off, a much larger attack surface and a growing list of entry points for adversaries.
The old playbook of perimeter firewalls and post-incident remediation is obsolete. Mining companies must move from reactive defence to continuous, operational resilience. That means boards should demand measurable metrics mean time to…
