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Germany May 12, 2025 Country Members Physical german

München: 1st CIDO-WOMEN Event @ Microsoft

Bauen Sie mit uns ein Netzwerk auf aus führenden WOMEN CIDOs aus dem IT und Technology Bereich.

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Belgium May 13, 2025 Invitation Only Physical english

Women of CIONET - How Female CIOs Drive Inclusive Tech Teams

The role of the CIO is evolving faster than ever, requiring a blend of strategic vision, innovation, and adaptability. As CIOs lead digital transformation, the skills needed in their teams are changing, too. This conference highlights how female CIOs are navigating this shift—reshaping their teams, prioritizing diverse skill sets, and leveraging inclusion as a driver of success. Discover how building diverse, future-ready teams enables CIOs to meet the demands of an ever-changing IT and tech landscape.

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Belgium May 13, 2025 Invitation Only Physical english

Code Red for a proactive, predictive cyber defence ; How to Turn Threat Intelligence into Cyber Advantage

As a CIO and CISO, you are facing an unprecedented challenge: transitioning from reactive incident response to proactive, predictive defence. While Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) promises to anticipate attacks, integrating it effectively into security and war room operations presents significant hurdles.

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Poland May 13, 2025 Invitation Only Physical Polish

EXECUTIVE ROUNDTABLE: DIGITAL BLIND SPOTS: Czy wiesz, czego nie wiesz? Niewidoczne ryzyka, które zagrażają ciągłości biznesu.

Pierwsza awaria cię nie pogrąży, ale kolejna prawdopodobnie już tak - takie wnioski płyną z badania z udziałem CIO, które CIONET przeprowadził w Polsce w 2024 roku. Utrzymanie ciągłości biznesu pozostaje najważniejszym zadaniem liderów IT. Awarie platform technologicznych przekładają się na ogromne straty – od utraty przychodów i reputacji po kary nakładane przez organy kontrolne, w tym UODO, KNF czy UKE. Systemy analityczne i panele kontrolne zapewniają wgląd w wiele procesów, często pozostawiają jednak „martwe punkty” - obszary, w których kryją się niewidoczne problemy, nieefektywności lub ryzyka. Zapraszamy na ekskluzywne spotkanie Digital Blind Spots, organizowane z myślą o liderach technologii z różnych branż. Będziemy rozmawiać o doświadczeniach i wyzwaniach związanym z monitorowaniem, zabezpieczaniem i optymalizacją ekosystemów technologicznych.

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Netherlands May 13, 2025 Invitation Only Physical dutch

Cognizant CIO Vision Dinner: Gen AI & Smart Industry

Alleen op uitnodiging. In een besloten setting, onder leiding van gastheer Herman van Bolhuis (Founder CIONET & bestuurslid FME), verkennen we de strategische impact van Generative AI en de volgende fase van digitalisering.

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UK May 15, 2025 Country Members Physical english

Women of CIONET - Female Leadership Circle

CIONET is committed to highlighting and celebrating female role models in IT, Tech & Digital, creating a leadership programme that empowers and elevates women within the tech industry. This initiative is dedicated to showcasing the achievements and successes of leading women, fostering an environment where female role models are recognised, and their contributions can ignite progress and inspire the next generation of women in IT.

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ATD 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:

  • Comprehensive protection that can automatically stop more attacks before they take hold
  • Faster and earlier detection, surfacing fewer, prioritized alerts, and presenting the story of the attack
  • Alert monitoring and prioritization, incident investigation, and threat hunting
  • A step-by-step response plan on actions needed to remediate
  • Reduced time it takes to detect, contain, and respond to threats, minimizing the severity and scope of impact
 

"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.”

Checkout our CIONET COOKBOOK

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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.

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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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This report provides a comprehensive overview of the event's insights and reflections from industry leaders, along with actionable takeaways for IT professionals aspiring to reach leadership positions.

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Investment Report 2025- Risk-on, Risk-off

In this report, Roger Camrass reviews the financial events of 2024 and presents his opinion on investment prospects for 2025 Roger has followed global finance markets closely for over 40 years and summarises trends in investment reports annually1 As former Research Director at CIONET, Europe’s largest community of digital leaders2, Roger has first-hand knowledge of digital trends

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