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How Nutrien built a virtual GSOC for global security decision-making

Snapshot

Nutrien is one of the world’s largest providers of crop inputs and services, supporting growers through a global network of production, distribution, and retail operations.

Nutrien is one of the world’s largest providers of crop inputs and services, supporting growers through a global network of production, distribution, and retail operations.

LOCATION

Global

INDUSTRY

Agriculture

FOOTPRINT

500K+ grower accounts 
25,000+ employees
2,000+ retail selling locations
17 mines and production facilities
25 distribution centers

SECURITY TEAM

Distributed corporate security team

USE CASE

Distributed corporate security team

The Challenges

For years, each regional team at Nutrien managed risks through siloed dashboards, email alerts, and manual escalation processes. Information often arrived too late or too incomplete to support confident action.

Nutrien’s global security team recognized that scale could not come from staffing alone. It had to come from connectivity, automation, and verified information.

For years, each regional team at Nutrien managed risks through siloed dashboards, email alerts, and manual escalation processes. Information often arrived too late or too incomplete to support confident action.

Nutrien’s global security team recognized that scale could not come from staffing alone. It had to come from connectivity, automation, and verified information.

Fragmented coordination

Travel risk management, executive protection, physical security, and regional teams needed timely information, but disconnected tools prevented a shared view of global risk.

Travel risk management, executive protection, physical security, and regional teams needed timely information, but disconnected tools prevented a shared view of global risk.

Limited visibility into operational impact

Knowing an event occurred was only the first step. Nutrien needed to quickly understand the impact on facilities, traveler routes, executives, supply chains, or regions.

Knowing an event occurred was only the first step. Nutrien needed to quickly understand the impact on facilities, traveler routes, executives, supply chains, or regions.

Manual workflows that could not scale

With sites, travelers, and executive movements constantly changing, manual triage caused delays. Nutrien needed trusted alerts automatically routed to the right teams.

With sites, travelers, and executive movements constantly changing, manual triage caused delays. Nutrien needed trusted alerts automatically routed to the right teams.

The approach: From first signal to decisive action

Travel risk management, executive protection, physical security, and regional teams needed timely information, but disconnected tools prevented a shared view of global risk.

Travel risk management, executive protection, physical security, and regional teams needed timely information, but disconnected tools prevented a shared view of global risk.

Anticipate emerging risks

Samdesk gives Nutrien earlier visibility into global risks affecting employees, executives, facilities, supply chains, and traveler routes—helping teams prepare before disruptions impact operations.

Samdesk gives Nutrien earlier visibility into global risks affecting employees, executives, facilities, supply chains, and traveler routes—helping teams prepare before disruptions impact operations.

Detect verified incidents

Samdesk uses AI and analyst verification to filter signals into trusted alerts with location, severity, and source details, helping teams act faster with confidence.

Samdesk uses AI and analyst verification to filter signals into trusted alerts with location, severity, and source details, helping teams act faster with confidence.

Analyze operational impact

Through Esri ArcGIS, samdesk alerts are mapped to Nutrien’s sites, traveler routes, and executive movements, helping teams quickly assess potential impacts and who needs support.

Through Esri ArcGIS, samdesk alerts are mapped to Nutrien’s sites, traveler routes, and executive movements, helping teams quickly assess potential impacts and who needs support.

Resolve through automated workflows

When relevant alerts occur, they appear in  ArcGIS and the appropriate team is notified via MS Teams, or email. This enables faster guidance, escalation, travel adjustments, and response coordination without relying on manual monitoring or a physical command center.

When relevant alerts occur, they appear in  ArcGIS and the appropriate team is notified via MS Teams, or email. This enables faster guidance, escalation, travel adjustments, and response coordination without relying on manual monitoring or a physical command center.

“We don’t have a physical GSOC. We are the GSOC. Wherever we are in the world, we can see what’s happening, validate it, and act.”

Morné du Preez
Senior Director of Global Security, Nutrien

The outcomes: 

Faster decision-making and stronger global coordination

With samdesk at the center of its virtual GSOC, Nutrien can assess and act on developing events. By reducing uncertainty and routing trusted information directly into operational workflows, the team can make faster, more confident decisions to protect employees, executives, facilities, travelers, and operations across regions.

A virtual global security operations center

Nutrien maintains global situational awareness without a 24/7 physical GSOC, enabling teams to validate incidents and respond using a shared trusted operating picture.

Managing instead of chasing information

By integrating samdesk with Esri, Teams, and email, Nutrien reduced the manual burden of monitoring and routing risk information.

Early insights protect executive travel

During political unrest in the Middle East, Nutrien received reports of demonstrations near an executive’s planned travel route hours before local news. The team was then able to proactively adjust travel plans before the disruption escalated.

Leveraging existing communication channels

By delivering alerts through the trusted channels of Teams and email, Nutrien avoids the adoption challenges that come with standalone crisis communication apps.

Enabling the business, not slowing it down

The virtual GSOC has allowed the security team to provide clearer guidance across travel, operations, and supply chain management—helping the business move forward safely.

“Our job isn’t to say no. It’s to give the business confidence to say yes safely. Samdesk helps us do that.”

Morné du Preez

Senior Director of Global Security, Nutrien

Faster detection is table stakes. Faster decisions are the advantage.

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