Plating: “Portugal had to have already adopted the nuclear power system” – the Internet

This Monday, without predicting themselves, Portugal and Spain suffered from the largest power outage due to a memory. Houses and companies were out of power, and wireless and wireless communications began moving to less than a few hours. It was about 8 hours of complete blackout until electronic began to replace services. But this did not avoid closing companies and stores earlier, which is a race to supermarkets dating back to Covid-19 looking for water and batteries (and possibly toilet paper).

What is certain is that the country is still looking for concrete answers about what resulted from blackout. and You will also be responsible for the damage that caused these eight hours without energy to the critical infrastructure in the country.

Looking at this scenario, Sapo Tek has an interview with Paulo Veiga, ODL CEO: A documentation company about the consequences of this blackout and the problem that says it is deeper than the lack of energy: Fragile in managing important information in companies, banks, hospitals and public bodiesOrganizations that are EAD customers.

EAD is a company specialized in managing information continuity. “On the day the light comes out, what distinguishes the company that survives the company that closes is immediate access to its critical memory: contracts, data and operations, everything that allows you to make decisions and behaviorThe company recounts in a statement.

It gives an example that in the morning he was in the company’s general assembly, but he ended up at noon and a little, so that the batteries of laptops can. the EAD is still running up to 17 years old, orally, but people had to go home early due to the lack of energy. This says that blackout should serve companies to review emergency and continuity plans.

Paulo Veiga considers to be in emergency plans, one should join energy variables, which is one of the most important company goods. “to Companies have important information about systems, owners, cloud or service providers. This is compared before, to access information, they had everything in a folder with documents. Now everything is on a computer, and this two became clear that companies must conduct a critical analysis of how, and how they should store their documents.

In the case of ODL, Paulo Veiga says he has all the information from the Amen Paper Emergency Plan of its desk and in PDF format on the mobile phone for quick access. “the A role unless computer systems are died. It is not good to be recorded and classified, and the risk of loss of original paper support cannot be taken. However, make the information available as possible and organized in a cloud, nothing is importantIf you need it and you can not reach it, as happened in blackout. “We always tell our customers that supporting paper is still important and should not be neglected. It may not be at a distance from a click, but it is at a distance from his hand“.

However, distance learning work not only depends on paper files. Its files contain 2 million boxes, with five volumes in each of them. But annually, the company is digitizing about 40 million documents. Of the 426 people working in the company in Portugal, 160 works in the process of removing materials, organizing and indexing their platforms or commercial bases for their customers. “We are providers, I am not a paper defender, but it is effectiveHowever, a sabotage event does not expect such an event with blackout, ending up to give some meaning for the purpose of Ead Business.

He was asked about what he is expected to learn from obstruction is to reconsider document management policies, business continuity plans and paper policy. He considers that in the next three days, the systems will return to work and return to normal life, but after that, there must be a security quality committee and the documents management that must be collected to devote the logic of continuity and create potential scenarios around it.. “There will be no electricity in the next three days, how will we work? We need to find an answer, which is what our company will do,” says Ead leader.

At the end of this on Tuesday, Ead was still raising the last systems. Its generator will get energy until 23:00 and it was not fed because the news realized that the energy was replaced from 20 hours. But this event will be analyzed internally by the company to improve flexibility in the future. “You will not have to go to everyone to run to buy generators or batteries (when they operate the car radio), but the conclusions must be removed, calmly, what happened and create new scenarios if they happen again. This is in order to avoid panic in both companies and people. “

It indicates that at least a sign of the crisis there is a race to supply and supermarkets. This is due to the lack of culture in these situations, which witnessed in Portugal a similar episode during the epidemic, but she did not learn much. But she says that in Japan, people are constantly training in this type of position, as happens in tsunami alerts.

But what if this infiltration extends to more than one or two days? “I would like to say that it will be after that although it could not cause more damage in a week more than the entire epidemiological situation“During the epidemic, there was no energy reduction and the relevant effects were not recorded. But Paulo Vega indicates that it will have a very negative impact on the gross domestic product,” adding only weeks that have a year and remove the value of one of them, including subsequent weeks of recovery. “

He points out that it has now become the transformation of politicians and civil society to analyze the current energy situation, “How much if you pay for green energy and not get it when we need it.” He believes that the issue should now be a priority, because the damage to this situation is much worse than those that occurred during the epidemic or earthquake, because in this case, it erases the country from north to south. In his opinion, Portugal should have already adopted the nuclear power system. “If Auto Europa, for example, you can access atomic energy, it will be more competitive.” Paulo Veiga has companies in Spain and finds that it is supposed to pay for energy in Portugal.

He was asked about the proposals that have a distance learning to protect this type of customer positions in the future, Paulo Veiga explains that the company maintains information in paper and digital coordination, stored in its infrastructure, where there is a data center on the ground floor of the building. The system has all the means of repetition, whether created, such as different communication lines that do not depend on only one communications operator.

The company’s CEO says that his employees can respond to customers who need a specific material document, with their own fleet to present it anywhere in the country. Or in the case of digital, it opens the FTP to send it safe. It gives an example of some electronic address on national hospitals, which EAD had the only backup system that provides its customers. Cyber ​​security is one of the topics that the company works to help protect its customers.