Eurotux invited to the XIX National Foundry Congress
Last May 11, the Portuguese Foundry Association (APF) held the XIX National Foundry Congress, at Torre da Oliva, in S. João da Madeira, under the theme Foundry: Future and Challenges.
The congress addressed the current problems faced by the sector, its positioning in an economy that increasingly aims to be sustainable, in addition to the usual technical issues that are intended to be innovative.
Ricardo Oliveira, Consulting Services Director at Eurotux, was one of the guests at the congress and was present as a speaker in the Digitalisation panel, with a presentation entitled “Cybersecurity: National Overview”. In his intervention, Ricardo had the opportunity to talk about cybersecurity risks and conflicts in the years 2020, 2021 and early 2022 and how these were marked by the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to the urgent need to move to remote or hybrid working models, there was also, by force of circumstance, a mobilisation in the digitalisation of business processes. However, we see that this modernisation was largely carried out without the fundamental participation of the cybersecurity area, either in the prior assessment of risks and determination of measures to deal with them, or already during the two long years in which organisations worked on this new model. As a result, cybersecurity incidents with a significant impact on organisations in Portugal increased considerably, taking advantage of the weaknesses inherent to the lack of maturity in these digitalisation processes and often centred on the biggest source of cybersecurity weaknesses: the employee.
Eurotux’s Consulting Services Director also had the opportunity to outline a Portuguese national panorama in terms of cybersecurity incidents, main attack vectors and guidelines to increase organisations’ resilience, taking into consideration the incremental consequences of these incidents.
