Concrete batch plant with silos, conveyors, and a fleet of mixer trucks
Industries / Aggregates & Ready-Mix

OT Cybersecurity for Aggregates & Ready-Mix Plants

Quarries, crushing and screening plants, asphalt plants, and concrete batch plants run on small OT networks spread across many sites, usually with no OT staff at any of them. Potenza brings OEM-independent assessment, documentation, and governance to aggregates and ready-mix operations.

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The exposure

Many small plants, one shared blind spot.

An aggregates or ready-mix business rarely has one big control network. It has dozens of small ones: a batch controller here, a crusher PLC there, a scale house and a dispatch link everywhere, each installed by a different integrator and each reachable by someone outside the company.

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Batch controls, scale systems, and dispatch on one network
The concrete batch plant controller, the weighbridge or scale system, the dispatch and ticketing link, and the office PC often share a single flat network. A ransomware event in the office is a production outage at the plant.
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Integrator and OEM remote access at every site
Batch plant vendors, crusher OEMs, and scale integrators each keep a remote path in for support. Across twenty sites that is dozens of privileged connections nobody centrally inventories or expires.
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No inventory, no OT staff, no lifecycle plan
Plants are acquired, upgraded, and mothballed faster than anyone documents them. Without an asset inventory with lifecycle status, unsupported controllers and switches are found when they fail.

How we frame it

A repeatable baseline sized for a plant, not a refinery.

Aggregates and ready-mix operations need a standard that fits a batch plant with one panel and a quarry with a dozen, and that can be rolled out site by site. We frame every recommendation in Purdue levels and ISA/IEC 62443 zones and conduits, mapped to NIST SP 800-82r3, then right-size it.

Fleet-wide topology of record

One inventory and one set of network diagrams across every quarry, asphalt plant, and batch plant, with lifecycle status per device, so acquisitions and upgrades land in a documented baseline.

Segmentation between batch, scale, and office

Separate the batch controller and plant PLCs from the scale house, dispatch, and corporate network with conduits that keep tickets flowing and controls isolated.

One owner for vendor access

Brokered, logged, least-privilege remote access for every integrator and OEM, and a named OT Service Owner accountable across the whole fleet of sites.

Service path

Where an aggregates or ready-mix operation usually starts

Distributed operations benefit most from a baseline that is repeatable across sites and an owner who applies it consistently. Each step is a standalone service.

  1. 01 · Assess

    OT Topology Assessment

    Per-site discovery producing your OT asset inventory, network diagrams, and segmentation evidence, repeated across the fleet.

  2. 02 · Own

    OT Service Owner

    A named, accountable owner for the OT security program across every quarry, asphalt plant, and batch plant.

  3. 03 · Manage

    Managed OT Support

    Day-to-day OT operations with a 30-minute critical SLA, for sites with no OT staff of their own.

Go deeper

Each service, as it applies to aggregates & ready-mix

FAQ

Questions aggregates and ready-mix operators ask

The short answers. Longer ones come from a conversation about your specific sites. Reach out to our team.

Get Started

Start with your busiest sites

Tell us how many quarries, asphalt plants, and batch plants you run, which batch and scale systems are in place, and who supports them remotely. We'll come back with a scoped assessment proposal, not a sales deck.

What you'll get

  • Fleet-wide OT asset inventory with lifecycle status
  • Segmentation plan between batch controls, scale systems, and office
  • Integrator and OEM remote access map
  • A repeatable baseline for every new site or acquisition

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