IT leadership & security advisory, built on twenty years in the trenches.
Lucisnet is the consulting vehicle of Nelson Lopes — IT Director at ExpressGlass (Cary Group), CISSP, based in Porto. Selective advisory engagements for EU SMBs with a real cybersecurity or IT-leadership problem to solve.
Who's behind this
Nelson Lopes
IT Director at ExpressGlass for nearly a decade — the Portuguese operation of Cary Group, a European automotive glass group present in 12 countries. Day job: technology strategy, ITSM, cybersecurity, cloud, telephony, and in-house software.
Lucisnet exists for work that falls outside that remit: helping other organisations — typically Portuguese and EU-based SMBs — with the same problems, without the overhead of a full hire. More on the person at nelsonlopes.net.
What Lucisnet does
Advisory only. No reselling, no hosting, no web agencies. The focus is IT leadership and operations for companies that don't need (or can't justify) a full-time IT Director.
Fractional IT Leadership
Senior IT direction on a part-time basis. Strategy, team structure, vendor management, and security posture — without hiring a full-time IT Director.
ITSM & IT operations
Service desk design, ticketing workflow, SLAs, incident / problem / change processes. Moving IT from firefighting to managed service delivery — grounded in ITIL, without the religion.
Networks, servers & cloud
Network architecture and segmentation, server lifecycle (Windows Server, virtualisation), and cloud migration (Azure, M365 infrastructure). Choosing what runs where — and making the on-prem ↔ cloud boundary predictable rather than eventful.
Microsoft 365 & endpoint management
Intune, Conditional Access, Defender, Entra ID, Autopilot. Getting every laptop and phone into a managed, compliant state — and keeping them there.
Pragmatic AI adoption
Where AI actually earns its keep in a mid-market business today — tool selection, rollout governance, practical automations, and the security and data-residency implications. Vendor-agnostic, signal over hype.
Second opinion & due diligence
Independent review of a proposal, an MSP contract, or a tech-debt situation. Short engagements, sharp output.
Get in touch
Form or email — both work. For anything confidential, email is better.