Case Study: Orica achieves enhanced endpoint security and rapid incident response with CrowdStrike

CrowdStrike Reinforces Safety for Staff at One of the World’s Leading Mining and Infrastructure Solutions Providers

Orica, founded in 1874, is a global leader in mining and infrastructure solutions that employs over 13,000 people and runs operations in remote, safety-critical environments. The company faced growing cybersecurity risks—ransomware, phishing, protection of intellectual property and slow, resource-intensive endpoint detection and response—while its legacy antivirus was complex to manage and offered limited visibility across thousands of field and manufacturing endpoints.

Orica replaced the legacy product with CrowdStrike Falcon across 8,700 endpoints and adopted services including Falcon OverWatch and an Incident Response and Advisory Services retainer. The deployment delivered single-pane visibility, faster containment (triage cut from four hours to 10 minutes), near-elimination of three-week device rebuilds, and successful mitigation of Log4Shell with no impact. Over three years CrowdStrike is projected to save AS$1.5M, pay for itself in 16.5 months and deliver a 115% ROI, while improving operational confidence and supporting cyber insurance requirements.

Orica

Sean Lasinker

Chief Information Security Officer