TASS, April 9. The Norilsk Nickel Company (Nornickel) will invest 1.5 billion rubles ($16 million) by 2027 in a comprehensive program to digitalize security functions. The company adopted a program of the kind for the first time, Nornickel's Director of Investment Project Management and Planning Department Alexey Malinsky told TASS.

"The program's implementation term has been determined to 2027. The total budget is about 1.5 billion rubles. The task to digitalize the systems is the consistent transformation of Nornickel's corporate protection amid the new risks and threats by using modern tools and by transition from analog to digital methods (processing large amounts of data, automation, the introduction of artificial intelligence elements, etc.)," he said, adding it was for the first time that the company had adopted a program of the kind. The program is aimed at introducing digital technologies into classic security systems, he added.

As part of the program, the company will have information anti-fraud systems that can detect online signs of unfair actions by personnel and contractors, and that can introduce new means to monitor and control the anti-terrorist security of the assets, create a system of response and of analyzing security centers, and automate inspections of contractors and job seekers.

Norilsk Nickel is a diversified mining and metallurgical company, the world's largest producer of palladium and high-grade nickel.