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Germany Sep 29, 2025 Country Members Virtual german

Online: AI & DATA Knowledge Transfer - Briefing 19

Unsere Wissensaustausch-Briefings "AI & Data Knowledge Transfer" zielen darauf ab, CIDOs und Senior Digital Leaders mit praktischen Anwendungen und umsetzbaren Erkenntnissen von Fachexperten zu vermitteln, die den Weg für transformative digitale Reisen ebnen.

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Germany Sep 30, 2025 Country Members Physical german

München: Unstrukturierte Daten – Das verborgene Kapital in deinem Unternehmen

Von der Theorie in die Praxis: Erst Business, dann Bier.Unstrukturierte Daten sind das verborgene Kapital vieler Unternehmen – und zugleich eine der größten Herausforderungen moderner IT. Gemeinsam mit CIOs, CDOs und CTOs der CIONET-Community sprechen wir zuerst bei WeWork München über Strategien, Technologien und echte Use Cases, um dieses Potenzial zu heben. Danach geht's weiter auf die Wiesn – für den offenen Austausch in bayerischer Atmosphäre.  

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UK Sep 30, 2025 Invitation Only Physical english

How CIOs drive game-changing results at scale?

This exclusive Jefferson dinner, hosted by Mendix and CIONET, brings together a hand-picked group of senior executives and digital leaders from across the UK financial sector.

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Netherlands Sep 30, 2025 Invitation Only Physical dutch

Vision Dinner From the Network to the Data

Alleen op uitnodiging. Mastering Digital Sovereignty Control, trust and resilience in an era of geopolitical and regulatory shifts. From the Network to the Data.

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Belgium Oct 1, 2025 Invitation Only Physical english

Telenet Business Leadership Circle - Legacy & Lifecycle Management

In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, organisations face a critical challenge: how to modernise their legacy systems while managing costs, maintaining security, and ensuring operational continuity. This exclusive round table discussion brings together CIOs, CTOs, and Digital Leaders to explore best practices for legacy and lifecycle management. Key topics include extending the lifespan of existing systems, mitigating cyber security risks, optimising costs, and integrating legacy platforms with modern technologies. We’ll also delve into sustainability, workforce challenges, and future-proofing IT infrastructures to navigate technological obsolescence.

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Germany Oct 7, 2025 Country Members Virtual german

Online: KI-CHECK: Wo steht dein Unternehmen?

Alle nutzen KI, aber keiner weiß wie effektiv! Im Jahr 2025 sind wir als IT-EntscheiderInnen gefordert die Wünsche der Fachbereiche an Künstliche Intelligenz zu managen. Welche KI dient als Copilot für unsere Mitarbeitenden, inwieweit hat diese Zugang zu Firmenwissen und könnten wir heute bereits sinnvoll einen KI Agenten in die IT Systemlandschaft einbinden? Unser Business Partner Scheer PAS spricht als Anbieter einer Process iPaaS Plattform mit hunderten Unternehmen jedes Jahr über IT-Integration. In dieser Online-Session besprechen wir erste Reifegradmodelle zu KI, wo der deutsche Mittelstand sich befindet und wie wir die nächste Innovationsstufe erreichen. Wir teilen praktische Erfahrungen aus dem Marktumfeld und planen unsere nächsten Schritte in der Adaption von KI.

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Trend Micro builds connected threat protection for Together Housing Association

Trend Micro builds connected threat protection for Together Housing Association

OVERVIEW

Together Housing Association is one of the largest organisations of its kind in the north of England, managing over 37,000 homes across the region. As a non-profit, all the money it makes is invested back into the company for the benefit of residents and local communities.

The ICT team for the group continually scan the market for new products which might align with Together Housing’s evolving requirements, as well as managing day-to-day hybrid server and network environments. There are two main sites with many more satellite offices and 1,600 users to manage across that ICT infrastructure.

 

"We’ve been working with Trend Micro a few years now and work so well with the team there. If we need to configure a product in an unusual way or have any other queries, we have access to the technical guys immediately. We jump online and we get the job done. You just don’t seem to get that from other vendors."

 

ICT Team, Together Housing Association

 
 

A CONNECTED APPROACH

Organisations like Together Housing may not sound like the typical target for a cybercriminal. However, these types of organisations are often seen as a “soft” target that may be less well protected than commercial counterparts.

According to a 2020 government survey, a quarter of charities (26%) reported having experienced cybersecurity breaches or attacks in the previous 12 months, rising to 57% for those with larger incomes. It’s a figure that’s been on the rise for several years.

Together Housing was already a Trend Micro customer, but recently began a journey towards a more unified, cloud-centric, connected threat defence approach. They wanted solutions across network, endpoint, and cloud app layers that closely interact for maximum protection and minimum management overhead.

The ICT team have always viewed themselves as enablers for the organisation, and have been open to trialling new Trend Micro products.

“We are led by Trend Micro in terms of the roadmap for products,” the team said.

“If it is benefitting us as an organisation and making our life easier while improving security, we will look to roll out additional solutions.”

 
 

WHY TREND MICRO

Although Together Housing was already set up with a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and had a flexible working philosophy pre-pandemic, the transition to mass remote working forced by COVID-19 accelerated its digital transformation even further. Trend Micro has been there every step of the way to support these efforts.

Together Housing upgraded to Trend Micro Vision One™ for unified endpoint protection, Deep Discovery™ Inspector for network-based threat detection and Cloud App Security (CAS).

 
 

SOLUTION

Trend Micro Vision One offers:

  • A blend of cross-generational threat techniques (pre-execution and runtime machine learning, application control, DLP, anti-malware, etc.)
  • Centralised visibility and control from a single portal, covering virtual and on-premises endpoints
  • Detection and response through integration with Trend Micro Vision One’s XDR capabilities 

 

Deep Discovery Inspector offers:

  • Visibility into all network ports and over 105 protocols.
  • Monitoring of east-west and north-south traffic.
  • Detection of targeted ransomware and advanced threats. 

 

Cloud App Security offers:

  • Seamless SaaS-based protection for Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, and other cloud apps
  • Protection against millions of threats per year that are not spotted by Google/Microsoft
  • Detection of ransomware, BEC, and other threats using advanced machine learning
 
 

A WINNING COMBINATION

With Trend Micro Vision One in place the team have been able to enforce security policy across all virtual and regular endpoints and servers across the non-profit’s 1,600-strong userbase, wherever they are—particularly useful given the distributed nature of the workforce.

The integration of Trend Micro Vision One XDR across endpoints, servers, cloud apps, and the network has been particularly powerful in providing correlated threat detection and response across the entire environment.

From the ICT team’s perspective, the unified visibility and control Trend Micro provides from a single user interface has been especially welcome—boosting ICT staff productivity.

“In the past, being forced to log-in to different services to check alerts and notifications could be quite cumbersome,” explained the team. “With Trend Micro it’s all there in one window, which is a lot more intuitive. It just makes life much easier.” The success of the relationship is not just down to product but also people, they conclude.

“We’ve been working with Trend Micro a few years now and work so well with the team there. If we need to configure a product in an unusual way or have any other queries, we have access to the technical guys immediately. We jump online and we get the job done. You just don’t seem to get that from other vendors.”

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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