When the shaft stops, production stops.
IT & cybersecurity built for industries that can’t afford either.
Mining and resources operate on tight uptime, remote sites, and converged IT/OT networks — and they’re increasingly in the crosshairs of ransomware crews and nation-state operators alike. AlecTech delivers the execution muscle to keep both your corporate systems and your operating environments running.
Mining is now a Tier-1 cyber target
Critical-minerals strategy, ESG reporting, and digital-mine modernization have raised the value of the data — and the cost of an outage. Both attackers and regulators noticed.
Figures synthesized from published industry reporting, regulator advisories, and cyber-insurance claims data. AlecTech will tailor these to your operation’s profile on request.
Six pressure points across the pit-to-port chain
ERP suites, fleet-management systems, processing SCADA, environmental monitoring, satellite links to remote sites, and assay data — every layer is leverage if it isn’t watched.
Ransomware on ERP & finance
SAP, JDE, or D365 encrypted means no shipments, no payroll, and no procurement. Production grinds to a halt within a single shift.
ProductionOT/ICS & SCADA compromise
Plant historians, PLCs, and process-control servers are increasingly internet-adjacent. A misconfiguration becomes a safety event in hours.
Safety & uptimeGeological & assay IP theft
Drill logs, resource estimates, and feasibility models are nation-state-grade intelligence — particularly for critical-minerals projects.
Strategic dataRemote-site & satellite links
Camp networks, satellite uplinks, and microwave backhauls are rarely segmented from corporate. One foothold reaches everything.
ConnectivityContractor & OEM compromise
Drillers, surveyors, OEM technicians, and engineering consultants connect equipment and laptops to your network on day one. Few are vetted to your standard.
Supply chainEnvironmental & safety data tampering
Tailings monitoring, emissions reporting, and incident logs are regulator-facing. Tampering — accidental or malicious — is a regulatory and reputational event.
Regulatory exposureFour scenarios we have seen — and stopped
These are composite, anonymized patterns from real Canadian mining and resources engagements. Names, commodities, and figures changed; the mechanics are honest.
A mid-tier producer’s ERP and reporting stack is encrypted on a Friday. A bulk concentrate shipment is due to leave port Sunday night. No ERP, no bill of lading, no shipment.
AlecTech’s MDR contained the affected segment on first detection. The Incident Response team brought a clean ERP back online from immutable backups, coordinated with the cyber-insurance carrier, and kept the carrier liaison briefed.
Anomalous scans against the processing plant’s historian appear out of an OEM contractor’s VPN session. The contractor is legitimate; the laptop is not — it had been quietly compromised on a previous engagement at another site.
AlecTech’s SOC isolated the session, alerted the contractor’s firm, and worked with the client’s OT team to verify no PLC config drift. The pattern fed directly into vendor-access policy tightening.
A junior exploration company about to publish a maiden resource estimate sees abnormal egress from a geologist’s mailbox to a foreign cloud-storage account. No alert had ever fired in their generic email tooling.
An AlecTech risk assessment mapped a forwarded-email rule put in place months earlier. Credentials were rotated, the rule killed, evidence preserved for counsel, and the disclosure was reviewed before publication.
A producer’s lender sends a 60-question cyber and OT security schedule as a condition of a project finance facility. Sign-off is needed within 30 days. The internal security lead is also leading three other workstreams.
AlecTech’s regulatory and contract compliance team mapped existing controls to the schedule, closed seven gaps in parallel, and produced lender-ready evidence — without slowing operations.
Why mining is different from “regular” IT
Generic MSSPs treat every client like a head-office network. Mining isn’t that. You run remote camps, satellite uplinks, processing-plant SCADA, and 24×7 shift operations — alongside corporate IT that has to keep the same uptime as the haul trucks.
AlecTech’s model is built for that reality: SOC coverage that extends to remote sites, OT-aware response that respects safety and production, and evidence in the form your insurers, lenders, and regulators expect.
You don’t need another dashboard. You need an execution muscle aligned to how mining and resources actually deliver tonnes.
What “mining-grade” means here
- Camp-to-corporate coverage. Monitoring that extends to remote-site networks, satellite links, and processing plants — not just head office.
- OT/IT-aware response. Containment choices that respect safety systems, production schedules, and life-safety constraints.
- Vendor-access discipline. Drillers, OEMs, and consultants brought into a controlled access model with continuous monitoring.
- Lender, insurer, regulator evidence. Logs, control attestations, and narratives in the form they request.
- Canadian context. CSE advisories, critical-minerals expectations, PIPEDA, and provincial environmental regulators.
The solutions that map to this industry
Every AlecTech service exists somewhere on a producer’s risk map. These are the ones we lead with — and the order we usually lead with them in.
Built as an execution muscle, not a PowerPoint deck
AlecTech is a Canadian MSSP. The deliverables are operational — detections, responses, evidence, and governance — run by a team that understands how mining and resources actually move tonnes.
Pit-to-port awareness
We design controls around how mining actually operates — remote sites, rotating crews, OEM access, processing-plant OT, and corporate IT held to the same uptime.
OT-aware response
Containment choices are tuned to safety systems, life-safety constraints, and production schedules. Security that respects the shift is security that gets adopted.
Canadian context
CSE advisories, critical-minerals expectations, PIPEDA, and provincial environmental regulators — all held by a team that lives in the same regulatory landscape you do.
The rules landing in mining contracts today
Not every operation needs every framework — but the ones showing up in lender schedules, insurance renewals, and JV partner questionnaires are converging fast.
One MSSP, one mining program
We rarely sell a single service into a producer. The pattern that actually moves the needle is a small, opinionated combination — deployed in a sequence that matches how operational risk shows up.
Your next shift shouldn’t depend on luck.
Book a 30-minute working session with AlecTech. We will map the top three IT and OT risks against your current operations and leave you with a plan you can actually run.
