The Mosaic Company mines and manufactures phosphate and potash - the crop nutrients that underpin roughly half of global food production. It's a six-country mining and manufacturing operation with customers in over 40 countries, employing more than 13,000 people from extraction through distribution. For a cybersecurity team, that means defending a sprawling OT/IT convergence surface: mine control systems, processing plants, logistics networks, and the enterprise layer tying them together.
The threat model here isn't theoretical. Industrial control systems in mining and chemical processing are high-value targets - ransomware, supply chain compromise, and nation-state reconnaissance all factor in when your infrastructure feeds the global food supply. The attack surface spans SCADA environments in remote extraction sites, cloud-connected enterprise systems, and the third-party integrations that connect Mosaic to agricultural customers worldwide.
Mosaic operates in agriculture, mining, and crop nutrients - sectors where operational downtime has cascading consequences beyond the balance sheet. The company has invested over $227 million in community programs and launched Employee Inclusion Networks in 2023, signaling a culture that values deliberate engagement. Security teams working here would need to balance hardened OT environments with the realities of a company that moves physical goods at massive scale across borders.
