Cisco’s industrial cybersecurity portfolio, anchored by Cyber Vision and Secure Equipment Access, addresses one of the mining industry’s most pressing challenges: gaining real-time visibility into what is actually connected on operational networks.
Cyber Vision passively monitors industrial protocols, including Modbus, DNP3 and EtherNet/IP, to automatically build a granular asset inventory of PLCs, sensors, drives and control systems across mine sites.
This baseline then enables continuous anomaly detection without disrupting fragile industrial processes. Secure Equipment Access, meanwhile, provides vendor-agnostic remote access capabilities that allow equipment OEMs and maintenance contractors to connect to specific assets without traversing the broader operational network.
For large diversified miners managing hundreds of remote vendor relationships, this controlled access model dramatically reduces third-party supply chain risk, one of the sector’s fastest-growing threat vectors.
3. Fortinet
Location: Sunnyvale, California, USA
Founded: 2000
Software: FortiGate Rugged & FortiDeceptor
