In the mining world, processing and corporate IT infrastructures rarely merge effectively, so this represents an extraordinarily strategic and smart move to integrate the two together to not only reduce costs but also complexity.
Key Challenges in OT Cyber Security
Traditionally, OT environments were separated from corporate IT networks, which simplified their security. The growing convergence of Industrial Control System (ICS) environments with external digital infrastructure, including remote access, data analytics and corporate IT, has made securing these environments significantly more complex and critical. Denver Technology’s OT cyber security services address this complexity directly, keeping your operational technology safe, secure and operational.
Our designs are aligned with the Purdue network model and incorporate appropriately segmented firewalls, De-Militarised Zones (DMZs), controlled jump-hosts and out-of-band management and monitoring. Backed by ICS-specific certifications and hands-on experience across both IT and OT environments, we help asset intensive industries address cyber security strategy and governance, from network and security architecture through to independent benchmarking and ongoing security operations.
Hidden Assets and Exposure Gaps
Many organisations lack complete visibility of operational assets, connections and vulnerabilities, making cyber risk harder to identify and manage.
Control Weaknesses in Industrial Environments
OT environments often contain legacy protocols, inconsistent segmentation or weak access controls that increase risk and complicate remediation.
Security Activity Without Operational Context
Applying cyber measures without a defined OT strategy leads to poor prioritisation, fragmented controls and limited long-term resilience.
Safety, Capability and Governance Pressures
Effective OT security requires more than technology, it demands operational understanding, leadership alignment and structured governance across industrial environments.
Tailored for industrial resilience, this framework reviews OT assets, controls and governance supporting secure operational performance.
Industrial architecture and security artefacts are reviewed before assessment.
Operations, engineering and cyber participants discuss exposure points, constraints and priorities openly.
Asset visibility, network protection, and governance are examined.
Analyse collated quantitative and qualitative data for findings report & presentation.
OT findings and actions are presented to leadership for prioritisation decisions confidently.
Structured deliverables that strengthen industrial security and resilience.
Executives gain a targeted set of outputs that improves visibility of industrial risk, clarifies governance duties and supports more resilient protection across OT environments.
Several structured artefacts are prepared to support OT cyber uplift, including:
A service-specific report is prepared to support risk reduction and governance improvement in industrial settings, including:
In the mining world, processing and corporate IT infrastructures rarely merge effectively, so this represents an extraordinarily strategic and smart move to integrate the two together to not only reduce costs but also complexity.
Manager Technology Operations & Governance at Roy Hill
Denver’s extensive mining industry expertise meant that they can be fully involved in what is happening on the ground at our mine and make the appropriate recommendations. Whilst we had the high-level vision of what was required, we needed a specialist partner to drive the implementation and Denver was the perfect choice for us.
Specialist Engineer - Control Systems at Roy Hill
We need to be in a position where we can take fast, decisive action to respond to market changes and business needs. Technology is central to increasing operational efficiency while maintaining safe work practices and reducing cost. Denver has worked with us to ensure technology initiatives and the business were in sync to take us to where we want to be.
IT Manager at Sandfire Resources
The teams are all speaking your praise with comments like ‘Best IT project we have ever seen’, ‘the Denver team are great, really know their stuff’, ‘Looking forward to working with them at Toledo’. I appreciate the professionalism and long hours you have all put into this to make it a success and show that it is possible to deliver a successful major project in the patchwork vendor environment that we have here in the US.
Global Digital Portfolio Owner - Manufacturing Productivity at BP
Denver helped us to identify the IT and OT opportunities with the greatest business impact. They have a holistic view and they are prepared to do things right. They are easy to work with, flexible and approachable and have brought great value to enabling our business.
IT Manager at ATOM
This project was very high risk due to the age of the existing version, extensive software customizations, a tight budget and a fixed delivery timeline that was driven by a major upcoming TAR. The skill and experience brought to the project by the Denver team enabled the successful delivery of the project on time, under budget and within scope. Denver is an excellent organisation to work with and they deliver what they say they will deliver.
Manager of IT Strategy, Architecture & Project Portfolios at BP
Frequently Asked Questions
At Denver Technology, we understand that investing in advanced technology comes with important questions. Our Frequently Asked Questions section is here to provide quick, clear answers about our products, capabilities, services, and support.
OT environments prioritise safety and continuous operation over data confidentiality, so security controls have to be designed without compromising plant uptime or worker safety.
The Purdue model is an industry-standard reference architecture for segmenting industrial networks into security zones. Aligning to it ensures appropriate separation between corporate IT, OT and the production floor.
Yes. We conduct independent evaluations of existing OT architecture and policy frameworks, benchmarked against standards including NIST and the Essential 8, to identify gaps and prioritise remediation.
We design secure remote management capability using controlled jump-hosts and out-of-band networks, allowing authorised access without expanding the attack surface.
Both. We deliver end-to-end, from network and security architecture through to implementation, third-party solution assessment and ongoing security operations support.