Wesizwe Platinum continues to pursue data recovery following breach

JSE-listed Wesizwe Platinum, which owns the Bakubung platinum mine, says data recovery experts are making significant progress with recovery and restoration efforts to reinstate all essential systems and data necessary for it to return to its normal operations, following a compromise detected in the company’s information management systems in December last year.

Immediately after the compromise, Wesizwe initiated a rigorous exercise of impact analysis and disaster recovery to assess the damage, the company points out.It has also implemented more stringent cybersecurity and access control measures, which include software upgrades, policy updates and employee capacity-building initiatives to increase awareness and ensure the integrity of its IT systems.

Wesizwe also continues to conduct systems vulnerability assessments and penetration testing to identify and fix security vulnerabilities in its systems.