With a digital transformation underway, there is increasing potential for cyber incidents to affect networks, impacting productivity as well as safety and sustainability goals. Only through industry collaboration and communication can the upper hand be regained.

Initially established in the US, Information Sharing and Analysis Centers (ISAC) have been established in multiple industry verticals to pool resources, work with other industry groups and enable the confidential sharing and collaboration necessary in the current environment.

The Mining and Metals ISAC (MM-ISAC) is a non-profit, industry-owned corporation established to support and improve the cyber security and resiliency of metals and mining companies against incidents that could impact the safety, environmental sustainability, and production goals of their operations. MM-ISAC will execute this mission through shared threat and vulnerability information, managing industry contingency planning, and providing opportunities for training and exercising response teams.

MM-ISAC will work with ICMM, GMSG, related industry ISAC/ISAOs, as well as regulators to establish and support vendor guidelines and standards, cyber resiliency frameworks and industry best practices.

Membership is open to all companies in the mining and metals industries sharing our commitment to sharing and collaborating to improve our collective cyber security and resilience. Membership fees are US$25,000/year.

In addition to core information sharing, members are invited to participate in a number of activities and programmes to enhance company and industry security and resiliency including an executive advisory committee; conference calls discussing current threats and challenges affecting the mining and metals sector; development of a mining and metals cyber resiliency and maturity framework to assist member companies in measuring and maturing their cyber security programmes; participation in industry incident response planning and incident simulation exercises and incident response training programmes.

In January 2018 the MM-ISAC will incorporate as an independent, not-for-profit corporation.