Mining and metals companies are putting their foot on the gas in the face of economic reopening. As teams address challenges and prepare for optimal efficiency, they cannot ignore a major growing risk: cybersecurity.
There is no denying this increasing threat. The recent EY Global Information Security Survey finds that more than three-quarters of respondents have seen a rise in the number of disruptive cyber attacks in the last year as businesses increasing rely on digital and autonomous tools.
The thing is, as businesses adapt to new digital and online measures, threat actors adapt with them, using new strategies.
And commodity companies certainly aren’t immune. The hackers who shut down the U.S. Colonial Pipeline earlier this year used ransomware-as-a-service that can be found on the dark web. And the individuals who infiltrated SolarWinds in 2020 did so via a sophisticated supply chain attack that was largely unfamiliar to security teams.
For mining and metals companies, there’s a unique set of challenges. Ongoing integration between IT and OT networks, reliance on…
