You said · We had a breach or close call
Industry · Mining services and technology
A breach or close call just happened.
The invoice redirection fraud hit on a Tuesday. The phishing link clicked by a site engineer on Wednesday. The first hour determines whether you are managing a nuisance or a catastrophic failure. Mining services firms face immediate pressure from principal contractors. BHP, Rio Tinto, and FMG demand proof of containment and a plan to stop the repeat. You need to act now, not next quarter.
What this usually looks like
What a security incident looks like for mining services firms.
You handle sensitive geospatial data, engineering designs, and environmental audit reports. A data leak or ransomware event stops field operations. Drone fleets go offline. Survey teams cannot access the cloud storage holding critical project files. The business halts while you try to figure out what was taken.
The principal contractors are watching. Their security packs require mandatory ransomware reporting and strict incident response timelines. If you cannot prove your identity posture was sound or that your backups are restorable, you lose the contract. The auditor will ask for evidence, not excuses.
Remote site connectivity adds complexity. Managed LTE or 5G links are the lifeline for your teams. If those credentials are compromised, the attacker has a direct pipe into your operational network. Patching gaps on endpoint devices become obvious vulnerabilities when someone is actively looking for them.
Where we'd start
Where we start after the incident.
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Step 01
Contain and assess immediately
We isolate the affected endpoints and revoke compromised credentials within hours. We review the logs to determine the scope of the breach. This includes checking for lateral movement across the managed LTE links and verifying if geospatial data was exfiltrated. We give you a clear picture of what happened and what is still accessible.
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Step 02
Restore operations securely
We rebuild the compromised systems using clean images from verified backups. We enforce Multi-Factor Authentication on all remote access points. We patch the vulnerabilities that allowed the initial entry. The goal is to get your survey teams and engineers back to work with a hardened environment that resists the same attack vector.
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Step 03
Prove compliance to your principals
We document the incident and the response for your cyber insurance and contractor audits. We align your posture with Essential Eight maturity levels. We provide the evidence BHP, Rio, and FMG require to show you have fixed the root cause. This turns a security failure into a demonstration of professional recovery.
Baseline controls, shared decisions
We take security so seriously, it's not optional.
Every plan includes the same core protections, because these are the controls that stop most of what we get called to. Phish-resistant multi-factor authentication. Known vulnerabilities closed within thirty days. Backups we have tested by restoring. Access removed the day someone leaves. A password manager, and a Microsoft 365 tenant that is hardened and kept that way. Those are not negotiable.
Beyond that, the right controls depend on your business, and application control is the clearest example. It is the strongest defence against software that should not run, and it costs real money and time to operate. A financial planning firm earns that cost back. A lawn care business rarely does. Knowing which one you are is our job, not yours.
Where a control does not fit, we agree that with you and write it down. You either source it elsewhere at your own cost, or we record the gap and what we both accepted. Nobody should learn about it during an incident.
We will still say no to a change we think ends in a breach, because we are in that incident with you. If you want every request actioned without anyone asking what it costs you, we are the wrong firm.
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The highest-impact controls are in every plan
A password manager, tested backups, endpoint and identity threat detection, and a hardened Microsoft 365 tenant come with all four plans. They are not priced separately.
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The rest we assess against your business
Above the baseline we assess each control against how you actually work, then tell you which ones earn their cost. Whatever we settle on, we write it down.
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We can say no to a change
If a request would leave you exposed, we will say so and we will not action it quietly. Convenience is worth arguing about. A breach is not.
What each plan includes
The full list of controls, and which plan includes which, is on the plans page.
Track record
Twenty years in. A hundred-plus clients. Every technician in Australia.
- Years in business
- 20+
- Loved clients
- 100+
- Aussie techs
- 100%
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The qualifier
Let's see if we're a fit.
Seven questions, one moment of your time. We'd rather tell you now than three months in.