Cybersecurity is increasingly high on companies' priorities. However, it is a topic that usually involves high investments in terms of security solutions and systems, training and resources, and is therefore out of reach for the vast majority of small and medium-sized Portuguese companies.

As processors of sensitive data and working with heavily regulated entities for several decades, we have developed strong cybersecurity skills and competencies.

This is why we decided to use our know-how in this area and put it at the service of national companies that don't have the capacity to have their own cybersecurity department.

And so the CyberAdvisor brand was born.

What services does CyberAdvisor offer?

CyberAdvisor is supported by a team with different levels of expertise in cybersecurity, which is reflected in different types of service, adapted to the needs of each company:

Cybersecurity Domain Scan

It consists of a rapid assessment, based on public data available on the internet about your domain and using as a reference a set of risk vectors identified as relevant to your sector.

Cyber Risk Mitigation

This is our most comprehensive program, which can be customized according to your company's needs. As a rule, we start this plan with a full assessment of your company's cybersecurity maturity. Once the main vulnerabilities have been identified, we propose a prioritized action plan together with the organization. We also monitor its implementation step by step so that these vulnerabilities are controlled or mitigated in the most appropriate way for the organization's context. And because people are a key part of proper cybersecurity risk management, we provide training and information at all stages of this process. 

Vulnerability & Threat assessment

We carry out an isolated assessment of the vulnerabilities, whether technological or not, that pose a risk to your company.

Cybersecurity Policy

We design policies and procedures tailored to the context, business and reality of each company to support cybersecurity.

What is our CyberAdvisor offer for?

While cybersecurity insurance is very useful, remember that it doesn't prevent incidents, it only minimizes the financial impact associated with them. And it's usual for this type of insurance to have prerequisites that the organization must demonstrate in terms of information security.

Using this type of consultancy makes you aware of your level of exposure to risk and how you can manage it, finding the best strategies to protect your information assets.

It is also increasingly common for large companies to demand cybersecurity guarantees from their suppliers, either through ratings or qualification and evaluation processes.

We can help you prepare so that no business is jeopardized for this reason.

Contact us and we will quickly carry out a Domain Scan that will give you visibility of the public-level risks to which you are exposed so that you can manage them properly. At a later stage, if you feel it is justified, we can carry out a Cyber Risk Mitigation project which will involve a more in-depth analysis.

Don't put it off, your business deserves to be protected, and it can't stop.

Reducing our ecological footprint is now mission critical.

If there are big projects at a national or even global level that have a big impact, we believe that it's also those many small everyday things that make a difference.

As individuals and as a company, we all have the ability to make a positive contribution to this mission and the more of us who take this step, the greater the impact these little things can have. We've decided to share here some simple initiatives that we've developed at Contisystems, some of which were suggested by employees and which we hope can inspire you on your journey to reduce your ecological footprint.

1. Invest in ecologically sustainable materials - FSC paper, recycled plastic and PLA.

In terms of business, we are committed to being prepared to produce with ecologically sustainable materials and we want to ensure that they have as environmentally friendly a life cycle as possible. However, we have experienced that, despite our FSC certification, the vast majority of printing jobs are still done on regular paper. Similarly, even though we offer several options in our card range with recycled plastic or even biodegradable materials such as PLA, the vast majority of cards are still made with standard PVC.

We know that cost increases can sometimes have an influence on these choices, but we also know that if we really want the world to change, we can't just rely on the actions of others. We believe that the effort must be joint if the effect is to be strong.

For this reason, we make sure that on the materials we sell that are ecologically sustainable, our margins are lower. The aim is to share with our customers the cost of using materials that reduce our ecological footprint and thus contribute to a higher percentage of jobs being done with these materials.

2. We replace plastic bottles with glass

We distribute glass bottles throughout the meeting rooms, placing water purifiers throughout our facilities so that everyone can fill up their bottles in the company using mains water.

This initiative makes it possible to avoid using more than 20,000 plastic bottles a year.

3. Waste bins and recycling bins in each room

As is common in companies, we used to have a waste bin at every workstation. It's practical and convenient, but do you know how many plastic bags are used unnecessarily? And the waste that isn't separated out of convenience?

With this initiative we placed a waste bin and mini-ecopoint in each area of the company, thus optimizing waste collection by the cleaning services, saving on the number of plastic bags used and encouraging waste separation.

At Contisystems we were spending 5,000 more plastic bags a year than we needed to!

4. Energy efficiency awareness campaign

It's not always possible to install control and monitoring systems and intelligent action in companies that allow for more efficient consumption of resources, but we can't forget the potential of raising awareness to change behavior.

At Contisystems we implemented a campaign to raise awareness of energy and water consumption by placing notes in strategic places.

5. Effective waste treatment

As individuals, we have in our hands the ability to contribute to more effective waste treatment by separating our household waste. As a company, we have a responsibility to ensure that systems are in place to ensure that our end-of-life products are treated correctly to reduce their impact on the environment.

At Contisystems, we are committed to ensuring increasingly effective and comprehensive waste treatment, both in the office and in manufacturing, and even at the end of life of the products we sell.

We can't think of reducing our ecological footprint as something that can be achieved immediately and in large volumes. We have to take steps and make progress.

We issue a challenge: regardless of the big projects you may be involved in, try gradually implementing small actions, gradually changing small behaviors, and in the end you'll see that all those small actions make a big difference too.