A mine produces drilling, fleet and maintenance data over links that drop. The platforms receiving that data answer to rules about where it may sit.
A platform outage translates into tonnes not extracted. The architecture has to stay usable while the satellite link is unavailable.
Controllers and process systems do not follow the patching rhythm of business servers. Making them coexist calls for network zones declared in advance rather than an exception recorded after an incident.
Resource estimates and drilling results carry market value. Where they are stored, and which law applies to the host, belong in the file alongside access control.
Subscriptions, networking, logging and policy are defined as Infrastructure-as-Code and kept under version control. Rebuilding an environment starts from the repository, not from one team’s recollection.
Production within eight weeks on a bounded scope: service history, incident reports, equipment documentation. The scope is fixed before we start and does not widen along the way.
The programme begins with SharePoint and shared-space permissions, not with licence purchase. Without that groundwork, the tool makes visible whatever the organisation had left open.
Migration from Windows Server to Linux and from Active Directory to FreeIPA, in waves, each reversible until the next one starts. It applies where licence cost or a sovereignty requirement makes the dependency unmanageable.
Since September 2023, any transfer of personal information outside Quebec requires a documented assessment of the legal regime of the receiving state. For an operator hosted with a US provider, that assessment is a CLOUD Act risk analysis.
A company subject to US law can be compelled to produce data it holds, regardless of where the server physically sits. A data centre in Quebec City run by a US company remains within that reach.
The Canadian federal framework applies to personal information handled in the course of commercial activity. It concerns mining companies whose operations extend beyond Quebec.
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