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Switzerland Nov 12, 2025 Country Members Physical english
CIONET invites you to a private dinner with a select group of enterprise CIOs and senior infrastructure leaders in Zurich – part of a multi-country dialogue series with IT executives across Europe. This strategic dialogue is designed for digital leaders to share insights on one of the most pressing challenges facing today's leaders: How can organisations build true digital sovereignty in the face of geopolitical uncertainty, regulatory pressure, and growing technological dependencies?
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Germany Nov 13, 2025 Country Members Physical german
Bauen Sie mit uns ein starkes Netzwerk führender WOMEN CIDOs aus der IT- und Technologiebranche auf! Unser zweites Treffen findet im PwC Experience Center in Frankfurt statt.
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Belgium Nov 13, 2025 Country Members Physical english
The Role of the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) The role of the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is no longer confined to securing the network perimeter. As organisations become more digitally connected and data-driven, the CISO’s responsibilities have expanded far beyond traditional security measures. Today’s CISO must not only defend against cyber threats but also enable the business to innovate securely, manage complex regulatory environments, and instill a culture of trust across the organisation. This event will explore the evolving role of the CISO as a strategic leader who balances security with business enablement. As digital transformation accelerates, how can CISOs align their security strategies with organisational goals, ensure compliance, and lead their teams in the fight against increasingly sophisticated threats? Key Discussion Points: From Gatekeeper to Strategic Partner: How CISOs can shift from being seen as barriers to innovation to becoming key enablers of business agility and transformation through security. Balancing Risk and Innovation: Learn how top CISOs navigate the delicate balance between mitigating risk and supporting the organisation’s need to innovate and scale in a secure environment. Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC): Explore how CISOs are managing an increasingly complex regulatory landscape, ensuring compliance while still driving business objectives forward. Building a Security-First Culture: Practical strategies for CISOs to foster a culture where security is embedded into every part of the business, from boardroom discussions to frontline operations. CISO as Crisis Manager: How to prepare for and lead your organisation through major cybersecurity incidents. From ransomware attacks to data breaches, we’ll discuss how today’s CISO is as much a crisis manager as they are a strategist. Why You Should Attend: As a CISO, your role is evolving faster than ever before. This event is designed to provide you with actionable insights into how to embrace your expanded responsibilities while keeping your organisation safe and secure. Whether you’re focused on aligning security with business goals, navigating regulatory challenges, or leading in times of crisis, this event will equip you with the strategies to lead the next era of cybersecurity.
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UK Nov 13, 2025 Invitation Only Physical english
Join us on November 13th for the exclusive roundtable powered by Cognizant.
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Italy Nov 13, 2025 Invitation Only Physical italian
Questa roundtable sarà l’occasione per un dialogo diretto e peer-to-peer tra CIO, CISO ed executive della community CIONET.
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Trend Micro powers NHS cloud pioneer SLAM with multilayered security
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLAM) has significantly improved its security posture with Trend Micro. Trend Micro’s Deep Security enables SLAM to effectively protect its infrastructure from threats such as WannaCry. This has not only improved security, but also accelerated cloud adoption and led to cost savings.
OVERVIEW
The South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLAM) is a London-based NHS trust specializing in mental health. It consists of four campus sites and over 70 community sites, with more than 5,000 employees. Stuart MacLellan is the head of operations for digital service at SLAM, where his team manages thousands of endpoints leveraging private and public cloud infrastructures.
Prior to choosing Trend Micro, MacLellan and his team were constantly challenged by high volumes of malware and viruses on the network, which led to system outages on occasion and ultimately a poor customer experience. In mission-critical environments like hospitals, this kind of impact is unsustainable in the delivery of critical frontline services.
At the same time, SLAM was evolving its infrastructure by adopting cloud services. It was the first NHS trust to migrate to Microsoft® Office 365® and moved to Microsoft® Azure® for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) on the first day of its launch in the UK. MacLellan recognized the need for a cloud-ready product suite to provide unified protection against zero-day and emerging threats across physical and hybrid cloud environments. He also required comprehensive threat detection at the network layer, which could be viewed holistic.
WHY TREND
For six years, SLAM has relied on Trend Micro to protect its 5,000 employees and clients using Trend Micro™ Smart Protection Suites, a multi-layered product approach to security that includes OfficeScan™ endpoint solution and InterScan™ Web Security Virtual Appliance. That superior performance and ability to root out threats gave MacLellan the confidence he needed to deepen the partnership with Trend Micro to include enhanced cloud and network security.
SLAM enhanced its protection with Trend Micro™ Deep Security™, Deep Discovery™ and Cloud App Security to secure their hybrid cloud data center, network, and cloud application layer.
"We’re a small team and run security as a linear layer across all our departments, so ease-of-use was essential. With Deep Security you get a holistic view from endpoint to servers and from cloud to network inspection, which was exactly what we needed."
Stuart MacLellan - Head of Operations for Digital Service, SLAM
SOLUTION
Deep Security is Trend Micro’s flagship data center security platform, offering unparalleled protection for physical and hybrid cloud environments, all from a single console. Deep Security is optimized for many of the most popular cloud platforms on the market, including Microsoft Azure.
It offered SLAM:
Deep Discovery is Trend Micro’s award-winning advanced threat detection tool. Powered by XGen™ security, it’s designed to monitor all ports and over 105 different network protocols. This allows you to discover advanced threats and targeted attacks moving in and out of the network and laterally across it.
Cloud App Security offers comprehensive protection in Office 365 environments, using sandbox analysis to spot and block ransomware, business email compromise (BEC), and other advanced threats. Over the past two years it has stopped over six million threats not spotted by Microsoft.
RESULTS
SLAM has already seen a range of benefits resulting from its decision to deepen its investment with Trend Micro. MacLellan was particularly impressed by the ability of Deep Security to offer management capabilities from a single pane of glass.
“We’re a small team and run security as a linear layer across all our departments, so ease-of-use was essential. With Deep Security you get a holistic view from endpoint to servers and from cloud to network inspection, which was exactly what we needed,” MacLellan explains. “Although we added more protection to our organization through the various suites, the centralized pane of glass Trend Micro offers hasn’t added any management overheads. It’s more efficient than having four different vendors in place.”
What’s more, Deep Security kept the organization safe from WannaCry while SLAM’s counterparts in the wider NHS were less fortunate. An estimated 19,000 operations and appointments were cancelled as a result of the WannaCry ransomware attack in May 2017.
“We had protection through virtual patching and got assurance through talking to Trend Micro support. It was a very controlled and managed experience for SLAM,” says MacLellan.
That protection has been matched by Trend Micro™ Deep Discovery™ Inspector and its ability to hunt down threats at the network layer, as well as Cloud App Security, which blocks malware targeting SLAM’s Office 365 platform.
Most importantly, having an effective, optimized layer of security in place has helped SLAM accelerate its adoption of cloud services to become a more agile and efficient organization. This has generated significant cost savings through improved capacity management, whilst driving a shift from being “a reactive IT department to a proactive, consultative department that is working to make the business better.”
"Although we added more protection to our organization through the various suites, the centralized pane of glass Trend Micro offers hasn’t added any management overheads. It’s more efficient than having four different vendors in place."
Stuart MacLellan - Head of Operations for Digital Service, SLAM
WHAT'S NEXT
With Trend Micro providing peace of mind to the IT team, they now have the time to look at more strategic plans, which will further help to reduce cyber risk. Improving incident response is high on the list, especially in light of the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), says MacLellan.
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