Cybersecurity for Distributed Mining Operations
Dawon provides unified security intelligence across extraction, processing, material handling, remote operations, and supporting infrastructure. It helps mining organizations manage cyber risk across geographically distributed sites without compromising safety, availability, or production continuity.
Complex Operations Across Remote and Connected Sites
Mining environments combine industrial control systems, autonomous equipment, remote communications, and long lived machinery across geographically dispersed locations. These systems must remain available under demanding physical, operational, and connectivity conditions.
Distributed Operations
Mines, processing facilities, pumping stations, rail terminals, and remote operations centres may be separated by significant distances and connected through constrained or intermittent networks.
Diverse Operational Technology
Legacy control systems operate alongside modern automation, fleet management platforms, connected sensors, and autonomous equipment, creating inconsistent levels of operational intelligence and security.
IT and OT Dependencies
Production reporting, maintenance, planning, and remote operations rely on data moving between business and operational systems. These connections can provide pathways into production environments if they are not properly governed.
Third Party and Remote Access
OEMs, contractors, maintenance teams, and equipment suppliers frequently require remote access to operational systems, introducing dependencies that must be continuously monitored.
One Operation, Separated by Distance and Bearer
MONITORING · CONTROL · PLANNING
WIDE AREA NETWORK
- Mine SiteRADIO
PLC · HMI · SCADA · FLEET AUTOMATION
- Processing PlantFIBRE
CRUSHING · MILLING · PROCESS CONTROL
- StockyardPRIVATE NETWORK
CONVEYORS · STACKERS · RECLAIMERS
- Rail or PortSATELLITE
RAIL TERMINAL · SHIP LOADING
- Site link over the wide area network
- Remote access pathway into the operational estate
A distributed operating model requires consistent security context across every location.
Intelligence and Risk Management Across the Mining Environment
Dawon connects asset, network, threat, access, and operational information across remote and centralized mining infrastructure.
Distributed Asset Intelligence
Identify PLCs, HMIs, SCADA systems, engineering workstations, fleet automation, connected sensors, and supporting infrastructure across multiple sites.
Operational Threat Detection
Detect abnormal communications, unauthorized devices, suspicious engineering activity, ransomware indicators, and unexpected changes affecting mining control systems.
Consequence Based Prioritization
Evaluate vulnerabilities according to the affected equipment, production process, safety function, and potential operational impact, not technical severity alone.
Network and Access Assurance
Understand communication paths between IT, OT, remote sites, suppliers, and operational systems. Identify unmanaged connections and support segmentation decisions.
Remote and Third Party Governance
Maintain intelligence on OEM, contractor, and maintenance access. Connect each access pathway with the assets and operational processes it can affect.
Deployment Without Production Disruption
Support passive monitoring and phased deployment across isolated, bandwidth constrained, and remote environments without requiring production shutdowns.
Each finding is evaluated against the process, equipment, and location it could affect.
Protection from Extraction to Transport
Extraction
DRILLING · BLASTING · EXCAVATION
Haulage
HAUL TRUCKS · AUTONOMOUS FLEET
Processing
CRUSHING · GRINDING · FLOTATION · SMELTING
Material Handling
CONVEYORS · STACKERS · STOCKYARDS
Transport
RAIL · PORT · LOADING SYSTEMS
ASSET INTELLIGENCE · THREAT DETECTION · RISK CONTEXT · RESPONSE · COMPLIANCE
Extraction and Autonomous Fleets
Protect drilling systems, excavators, haul trucks, fleet management platforms, autonomous equipment, and communications supporting open pit operations.
Underground Operations
Monitor systems supporting ventilation, dewatering, hoisting, personnel tracking, communications, and underground equipment.
Processing and Refinement
Maintain intelligence across crushing, grinding, flotation, separation, smelting, and process control environments where disruption can affect production and equipment integrity.
Material Handling and Logistics
Protect conveyors, stackers, reclaimers, stockyards, loading systems, rail infrastructure, and port operations.
Remote Operations Centres
Secure the systems and communication pathways used to monitor, coordinate, and control geographically distributed mining operations.
Maintain Secure and Continuous Production
Reduced Operational Disruption
Identify threats and unauthorized changes before they develop into production outages or equipment related incidents.
Improved Safety Context
Connect cyber findings with the machinery, processes, and safety functions they could affect.
Consistent Multi Site Governance
Apply a common security and risk model across mines, processing plants, remote facilities, and logistics operations.
More Effective Vulnerability Management
Prioritize remediation according to operational consequence, maintenance windows, and site specific constraints.
Stronger Third Party Oversight
Understand how suppliers, contractors, and remote maintenance pathways affect operational systems.
Audit and Regulatory Readiness
Maintain current evidence for requirements such as ISA/IEC 62443, ISO/IEC 27001, NIST guidance, NIS2, the SOCI Act, and applicable jurisdictional or mining sector regulations.
- ISA/IEC 62443
- ISO/IEC 27001
- NIST guidance
- NIS2
- SOCI Act
- Jurisdictional and mining sector regulations
Discuss Your Mining Cybersecurity Requirements
Explore how Dawon can support remote sites, processing environments, autonomous equipment, and multi site mining operations.