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Belgium 27-6-25 Squad Only Physical english
Many Belgian companies face the challenge of modernizing legacy systems. This session will explore strategies to overhaul legacy infrastructure while ensuring business continuity, enabling companies to embrace digital transformation fully.
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Join us for a wonderful ride. The ride is accessible to all levels of riders and doesn't require extensive technical skills. More information will follow soon. Looking forward to ride together!
Read MoreBelgium 1-7-25 Invitation Only Physical english
Today’s threat landscape is more aggressive, targeted, and unrelenting than ever. Traditional perimeter defence and reactive tactics are no longer enough, and CISOs know it. That’s why a new approach is gaining momentum: active cyber defence, where deception, and deep intelligence are wielded as strategic weapons.
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Summer Cocktail @Milan
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Digital Sovereignty - Securing Corporate Autonomy in a Fragmented World In an era marked by geopolitical instability and escalating digital dependencies, corporate leaders face a critical imperative: reclaiming control over their digital ecosystems. This exclusive CIONET executive dinner offers a platform for CIOs, CTOs, and digital leaders to delve into strategies for achieving digital sovereignty. Key discussion points include: Redefining Digital Sovereignty for Enterprises: Exploring how digital sovereignty extends beyond national borders to encompass corporate control over digital assets, infrastructure, and data. Infrastructure Independence: On-Premises vs. Cloud: Evaluating the trade-offs between on-premises infrastructure and cloud services in the context of control, scalability, and sovereignty. Sovereign AI: Building Autonomous Intelligence: Discussing strategies for developing AI capabilities that align with corporate values and operate independently of external platforms. Vendor Lock-In and Technological Autonomy: Identifying risks of dependency on specific vendors and exploring approaches to achieve technological independence. Investing in Sovereign Digital Capabilities: Strategising investments in infrastructure, talent, and processes to build and sustain digital sovereignty. Join us for an evening of insightful discussions, shared experiences, and actionable strategies to navigate the complexities of digital sovereignty. Secure your organisation's future by understanding and implementing the pillars of digital autonomy.
Read MoreUK 10-7-25 Country Members Physical english
Join us for our community event on 10th July in London. Sponsored by Business Partners Cognizant, Stefanini, Strategy, Orange Business, Entelect & Thoughtworks.
Read MoreGermany Jun 26, 2025 Country Members Physical german
IT ist heute ein entscheidender Wettbewerbsvorteil. Toyota nutzt die Scheer PAS Plattform, um Daten zu automatisieren, zu integrieren und zu monetarisieren – die Basis für Agentic AI. Beim exklusiven Roundtable diskutieren Experten, wie KI-gestützte Agenten Geschäftsprozesse revolutionieren und neue Geschäftsmodelle ermöglichen.
Read MoreSpain Jun 26, 2025 Country Members Physical spanish
Como cada año, CIONET convoca a los líderes digitales más reconocidos de la comunidad tecnológica de nuestro país a recibir el verano juntos, en un encuentro único y exclusivo con momentos muy especiales.
Read MoreBelgium Jun 27, 2025 All Members Physical english
Join us for a wonderful ride. The ride is accessible to all levels of riders and doesn't require extensive technical skills. More information will follow soon. Looking forward to ride together!
Read MoreBelgium Jul 1, 2025 Invitation Only Physical english
Today’s threat landscape is more aggressive, targeted, and unrelenting than ever. Traditional perimeter defence and reactive tactics are no longer enough, and CISOs know it. That’s why a new approach is gaining momentum: active cyber defence, where deception, and deep intelligence are wielded as strategic weapons.
Read MoreBelgium Jul 3, 2025 Invitation Only Physical english
Digital Sovereignty - Securing Corporate Autonomy in a Fragmented World In an era marked by geopolitical instability and escalating digital dependencies, corporate leaders face a critical imperative: reclaiming control over their digital ecosystems. This exclusive CIONET executive dinner offers a platform for CIOs, CTOs, and digital leaders to delve into strategies for achieving digital sovereignty. Key discussion points include: Redefining Digital Sovereignty for Enterprises: Exploring how digital sovereignty extends beyond national borders to encompass corporate control over digital assets, infrastructure, and data. Infrastructure Independence: On-Premises vs. Cloud: Evaluating the trade-offs between on-premises infrastructure and cloud services in the context of control, scalability, and sovereignty. Sovereign AI: Building Autonomous Intelligence: Discussing strategies for developing AI capabilities that align with corporate values and operate independently of external platforms. Vendor Lock-In and Technological Autonomy: Identifying risks of dependency on specific vendors and exploring approaches to achieve technological independence. Investing in Sovereign Digital Capabilities: Strategising investments in infrastructure, talent, and processes to build and sustain digital sovereignty. Join us for an evening of insightful discussions, shared experiences, and actionable strategies to navigate the complexities of digital sovereignty. Secure your organisation's future by understanding and implementing the pillars of digital autonomy.
Read MoreItaly Jul 3, 2025 Country Members Physical italian
Un appuntamento dedicato a Voi, la Community di Digital Leader più importante del nostro Bel Paese, per rafforzare e rendere sempre più speciale il legame di valore tra le persone che la compongono, brindando all’arrivo dell’estate.
Read MoreGermany Jun 26, 2025 Country Members Physical german
IT ist heute ein entscheidender Wettbewerbsvorteil. Toyota nutzt die Scheer PAS Plattform, um Daten zu automatisieren, zu integrieren und zu monetarisieren – die Basis für Agentic AI. Beim exklusiven Roundtable diskutieren Experten, wie KI-gestützte Agenten Geschäftsprozesse revolutionieren und neue Geschäftsmodelle ermöglichen.
Read MoreSpain Jun 26, 2025 Country Members Physical spanish
Como cada año, CIONET convoca a los líderes digitales más reconocidos de la comunidad tecnológica de nuestro país a recibir el verano juntos, en un encuentro único y exclusivo con momentos muy especiales.
Read MoreBelgium Jun 27, 2025 All Members Physical english
Join us for a wonderful ride. The ride is accessible to all levels of riders and doesn't require extensive technical skills. More information will follow soon. Looking forward to ride together!
Read MoreBelgium Jul 1, 2025 Invitation Only Physical english
Today’s threat landscape is more aggressive, targeted, and unrelenting than ever. Traditional perimeter defence and reactive tactics are no longer enough, and CISOs know it. That’s why a new approach is gaining momentum: active cyber defence, where deception, and deep intelligence are wielded as strategic weapons.
Read MoreBelgium Jul 3, 2025 Invitation Only Physical english
Digital Sovereignty - Securing Corporate Autonomy in a Fragmented World In an era marked by geopolitical instability and escalating digital dependencies, corporate leaders face a critical imperative: reclaiming control over their digital ecosystems. This exclusive CIONET executive dinner offers a platform for CIOs, CTOs, and digital leaders to delve into strategies for achieving digital sovereignty. Key discussion points include: Redefining Digital Sovereignty for Enterprises: Exploring how digital sovereignty extends beyond national borders to encompass corporate control over digital assets, infrastructure, and data. Infrastructure Independence: On-Premises vs. Cloud: Evaluating the trade-offs between on-premises infrastructure and cloud services in the context of control, scalability, and sovereignty. Sovereign AI: Building Autonomous Intelligence: Discussing strategies for developing AI capabilities that align with corporate values and operate independently of external platforms. Vendor Lock-In and Technological Autonomy: Identifying risks of dependency on specific vendors and exploring approaches to achieve technological independence. Investing in Sovereign Digital Capabilities: Strategising investments in infrastructure, talent, and processes to build and sustain digital sovereignty. Join us for an evening of insightful discussions, shared experiences, and actionable strategies to navigate the complexities of digital sovereignty. Secure your organisation's future by understanding and implementing the pillars of digital autonomy.
Read MoreItaly Jul 3, 2025 Country Members Physical italian
Un appuntamento dedicato a Voi, la Community di Digital Leader più importante del nostro Bel Paese, per rafforzare e rendere sempre più speciale il legame di valore tra le persone che la compongono, brindando all’arrivo dell’estate.
Read MoreATD Systemhaus builds managed security services portfolio on Trend Micro™ Worry-Free™ XDR
Builds managed security services portfolio on Trend Micro™ Worry-Free™ XDR
OVERVIEW
As a managed services provider for medium-sized businesses, ATD supports its customers with comprehensive cybersecurity solutions.
ATD serves as a remote IT department and oversees IT infrastructure, IT security, and digital transformation. Providing smaller companies with standardized MSP offerings, ATD also offers threat protection and remediation consulting services for larger customers. Many of ATD’s customers are looked at as leaders in their respective industries, leaving the defense of highly valuable data and trade secrets in their hands.
CHALLENGES
Highly dangerous cyberattacks, including ransomware, have become more commonplace and easier to deploy, expanding the digital attack surfaces.
At the same time, security systems are generating more logs and alerts, increasing the complexity of detection and response. Security teams are challenged with prioritizing a tremendous number of alerts to discover and remediate critical threats. Digital transformation has required organizations to adopt new security measures and to maintain and operate hybrid or multi-cloud environments. ATD required a cybersecurity partner that could discover, consolidate, and identify critical alerts and warnings and quickly act on threats.
"Trend Micro XDR is an indispensable technology for us due to the threat situation."
Michael Engelnkemper - Sales Manager, ATD
WHY TREND
In addition to a high level of technical and consulting expertise, ATD requires suitable technical solutions and measures to detect and ward off cyberattacks that are becoming increasingly aggressive and frequent.
The company was also looking for a partner that was able to provide cost-efficient and resource-saving services for medium-sized businesses without a dedicated SOC. Based on ATD’s proof of concept (POC), the organization found that Trend Micro™ XDR could provide:
"For us, it is important that we can support and further develop our customers holistically over many years. Trend Micro is the ideal partner for this.”
Thomas Braselmann - Account Manager, ATD
SOLUTION
Trend Vision One analyzes and correlates the log files of the connected systems, filters out relevant messages in advance, and presents them clearly.
A dedicated ATD team monitors the warnings and schedules them for further action. To assess critical cases, employees seek support from specialized security analysts as part of Trend Micro Managed XDR. If action is required, ATD will notify the customer immediately. Meanwhile, Trend Micro with Worry-Free XDR is integrated into all ATD security service packages so servers, clients, and firewalls are reliably secured in the managed service packages.
“We believe that Trend Micro XDR is an indispensable technology due to the threat situation,” says Michael Engelnkemper, who is responsible for the MSP portfolio at ATD. “It enables a holistic view of an infection chain and increases protection.”
For customers receiving customized services, ATD can offer customers unparalleled security depth across endpoints, email, cloud, OT/IoT, and networks, along with native XDR capabilities through a portfolio of solutions. This includes Trend Micro Deep Discovery, Trend Micro Deep Security Software, Trend Micro Smart Protection Complete, and Trend Micro TippingPoint.
“Trend Micro is up to date and one of the few vendors that is at the forefront of threat detection,” says Thomas Braselmann, Account Manager at ATD. “The products are coherent in themselves and the support behind them fits 100%. We find deep competence here. The cooperation is also based on partnership and on an equal footing.”
RESULTS
ATD’s partnership with Trend has allowed the firm to alleviate security operations teams for its customers.
They have the tools to deliver 24/7 alert monitoring and prioritization, incident investigation, and threat hunting as a managed service. ATD leverages the resources and knowledge of security experts to improve time to detection and time to respond. Customers are provided with efficient alert monitoring, in-depth investigations into advanced threats, and threat hunting via proprietary techniques. Threat investigators can initiate respective product response options to contain threats, while providing a step-by-step response plan on actions needed to remediate, along with custom cleanup tools, where applicable, to help recover from the threat.
WHAT'S NEXT
ATD has been a Trend partner for more than 15 years and has recently achieved Gold status.
“For us, it is important that we can support and further develop our customers holistically over many years,’ says Braselmann. “Trend Micro’s broad offering, from Worry-Free to TippingPoint, gives us the ability to deliver everything from a solution framework, from smaller customers to large mid-market projects.”
In the future, hybrid cloud security and network analysis will become important for many customers. ATD is planning to further expand these areas. “We see a high customer potential in our target market and will expand our focus in the field of IT security,” says Holger Kämmerer, Managing Director of ATD. “Trend Micro is one of our strategic key partners on this path.”
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Embark on a culinary journey through the ever-evolving world of digital leadership with our third edition of the CIONET Cookbook: Recipes for Digital Success. Unveiling the intricate trilemma faced by today’s Master Chefs, our trailblazing European CIOs address a challenge at the nexus of customer interests, digital transformation strategies, and IT modernisation. Their secret? Synchronising the gearing between customer, business, and technology to create a frictionless movement through the digital landscape.
The CIONET Cookbook uses the analogy of a five-star restaurant to explain the importance of optimally integrated technology, with the CIO as Master Chef. In order to provide the best service to its customers, a top restaurant must have the right atmosphere, an inviting menu, a well-equipped kitchen, talented and committed front-of-house and kitchen staff and smooth-running processes that ensure an enjoyable experience for diners.
From economic uncertainty to governance, security and trade concerns, today’s IT leaders face unprecedented challenges that require them to navigate, and thrive, in chaos. That, at least, is the proposition of a new sequence of events from Cognizant and CIONET.
This high-energy panel event explored how artificial intelligence is transforming enterprise strategy, operations, and culture. Industry leaders from AstraZeneca, Orange Business, Strategy and Soho House shared how they are reimagining their organisations to stay competitive in the AI era.
The evolution of AI is comparable to that of IT, but it’s happening much faster. As with IT in its early days, AI is becoming deeply embedded in almost every business function. Amara’s Law also applies here: we tend to overestimate AI’s short-term effects and underestimate its long-term impact. This makes it essential to embed AI across your company in a structured way.
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