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Belgium 28-8-25 Country Members Physical english
A special celebration marking 20 years of CIONET—two decades of empowering digital leaders and driving innovation in the technology landscape. This exclusive event will bring together our members to reflect on the incredible journey we've shared and look ahead to the future of digital leadership.Featuring keynote presentations from visionary CIOs, industry pioneers, and founding members, we’ll explore how far we’ve come and what lies ahead in the ever-evolving world of technology. Together, we will honour the contributions of our members who have shaped CIONET’s legacy while offering insights into how the community will continue to lead in the years to come.This is more than a celebration—it’s an opportunity to reconnect, reflect, and recharge with your fellow digital leaders. Don't miss this exclusive experience packed with inspiring talks, networking opportunities, and special recognitions that highlight the best of CIONET’s history and future.Let’s celebrate the past, present, and future of the digital community you helped build.
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A special celebration marking 20 years of CIONET—two decades of empowering digital leaders and driving innovation in the technology landscape. This exclusive event will bring together our members to reflect on the incredible journey we've shared and look ahead to the future of digital leadership. Featuring keynote presentations from visionary CIOs, industry pioneers, and founding members, we’ll explore how far we’ve come and what lies ahead in the ever-evolving world of technology. Together, we will honour the contributions of our members who have shaped CIONET’s legacy while offering insights into how the community will continue to lead in the years to come.
Read MoreBelgium 2-9-25 All TRIBERS Virtual english
You’ve been asked a simple question: “What does it cost to host this application?” But the answer is anything but simple. The platform sits across multiple data centres. The app spans a few VMs, shares a backup system, uses licensed monitoring, and touches five different teams. Your CMDB should help, but it’s rigid, outdated, or incomplete. And yet, you still need to provide a number, clear, explainable, and grounded in reality.
Read MoreBelgium 9-9-25 Squad Only Physical english
As Belgium navigates the complexities of GDPR and various data sovereignty regulations, organizations across multiple industries face both challenges and opportunities in managing their data across borders. The quest for compliance often intersects with the need for business growth, raising questions about the balance between protection and progress. How can companies effectively own and safeguard their data while ensuring compliance without stifling innovation and expansion in a multi-industry landscape?
Read MoreBelgium 11-9-25 Squad Only Virtual english
You’ve built the portal. Added the chatbot. Rolled out self-service. But your support lines are still ringing. And your frontline teams are still improvising. If you want digital services to feel seamless, not just look polished, this session brings you back to where value is felt: at the frontline.
Read MoreGermany Aug 27, 2025 Country Members Virtual german
Die neuen geo-politischen Veränderungen und unvorhergesehene wirtschaftliche Anforderungen stellen Digital Leader vor neue Herausforderungen. Immer öfter wird in den Vorstandsetagen die Frage gestellt, wie der (IT) Betrieb sicher und ungestört weiter funktionieren kann, wenn regionale Rechenzentren und Infrastrukturen plötzlich nicht mehr verfügbar oder nur teilweise noch einsatzbereit sind. Der CIO muss für diese neue Welt resiliente Strategien parat haben, die für Business Continuity in bisher nicht vorstellbaren politischen und wirtschaftlichen Szenarien ermöglichen.
Read MoreBelgium Aug 28, 2025 Country Members Physical english
With the theme “The Power of Connection,” we’re embracing the essence of meaningful connections within IT and beyond. To honour our tradition, expect an unforgettable evening featuring keynote presentations, open bars, a summer BBQ, and a special experience designed to bring our vibrant community together.
Read MoreBelgium Aug 28, 2025 Country Members Physical english
A special celebration marking 20 years of CIONET—two decades of empowering digital leaders and driving innovation in the technology landscape. This exclusive event will bring together our members to reflect on the incredible journey we've shared and look ahead to the future of digital leadership.Featuring keynote presentations from visionary CIOs, industry pioneers, and founding members, we’ll explore how far we’ve come and what lies ahead in the ever-evolving world of technology. Together, we will honour the contributions of our members who have shaped CIONET’s legacy while offering insights into how the community will continue to lead in the years to come.This is more than a celebration—it’s an opportunity to reconnect, reflect, and recharge with your fellow digital leaders. Don't miss this exclusive experience packed with inspiring talks, networking opportunities, and special recognitions that highlight the best of CIONET’s history and future.Let’s celebrate the past, present, and future of the digital community you helped build.
Read MoreBelgium Sep 13, 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 MoreGermany Sep 17, 2025 Country Members Physical german
Cybersecurity ist längst kein reines IT-Thema mehr – sie betrifft das gesamte Unternehmen. Doch während die Bedrohungslage zunimmt, geraten viele Security-Verantwortliche an ihre Belastungsgrenzen: zwischen 24/7-Verantwortung, wachsenden Anforderungen und dem ständigen Innovationsdruck.
Read MoreGermany Aug 27, 2025 Country Members Virtual german
Die neuen geo-politischen Veränderungen und unvorhergesehene wirtschaftliche Anforderungen stellen Digital Leader vor neue Herausforderungen. Immer öfter wird in den Vorstandsetagen die Frage gestellt, wie der (IT) Betrieb sicher und ungestört weiter funktionieren kann, wenn regionale Rechenzentren und Infrastrukturen plötzlich nicht mehr verfügbar oder nur teilweise noch einsatzbereit sind. Der CIO muss für diese neue Welt resiliente Strategien parat haben, die für Business Continuity in bisher nicht vorstellbaren politischen und wirtschaftlichen Szenarien ermöglichen.
Read MoreBelgium Aug 28, 2025 Country Members Physical english
With the theme “The Power of Connection,” we’re embracing the essence of meaningful connections within IT and beyond. To honour our tradition, expect an unforgettable evening featuring keynote presentations, open bars, a summer BBQ, and a special experience designed to bring our vibrant community together.
Read MoreBelgium Aug 28, 2025 Country Members Physical english
A special celebration marking 20 years of CIONET—two decades of empowering digital leaders and driving innovation in the technology landscape. This exclusive event will bring together our members to reflect on the incredible journey we've shared and look ahead to the future of digital leadership.Featuring keynote presentations from visionary CIOs, industry pioneers, and founding members, we’ll explore how far we’ve come and what lies ahead in the ever-evolving world of technology. Together, we will honour the contributions of our members who have shaped CIONET’s legacy while offering insights into how the community will continue to lead in the years to come.This is more than a celebration—it’s an opportunity to reconnect, reflect, and recharge with your fellow digital leaders. Don't miss this exclusive experience packed with inspiring talks, networking opportunities, and special recognitions that highlight the best of CIONET’s history and future.Let’s celebrate the past, present, and future of the digital community you helped build.
Read MoreBelgium Sep 13, 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 MoreGermany Sep 17, 2025 Country Members Physical german
Cybersecurity ist längst kein reines IT-Thema mehr – sie betrifft das gesamte Unternehmen. Doch während die Bedrohungslage zunimmt, geraten viele Security-Verantwortliche an ihre Belastungsgrenzen: zwischen 24/7-Verantwortung, wachsenden Anforderungen und dem ständigen Innovationsdruck.
Read MoreSocial Enterprise Cooperative in Asia-Pacific partners with Trend Micro to Achieve Security Strength
Partners with Trend Micro to Achieve Security Strength
OVERVIEW
This Asia-Pacific-based cooperative social enterprise has various divisions, including continuing education, a property management company, and a grocery store chain. The organization’s mission is to enhance the social good by supporting lowincome families. Its initiatives include bringing affordable daily necessities, food, and drinks closer to their customers, providing high-quality, affordable healthcare and eldercare services, and offering adult education and vocational skills.
The organization sought to consolidate all its divisions into one unified umbrella, and it needed a security solution that could protect the entire enterprise from end to end. Tasked with this immense transformation, the small security team turned to Trend Micro, knowing that it could meet this challenge with its comprehensive security platform and the best customer support in the security industry.
"You can tell that Trend Micro’s culture is very different from spreadsheet-driven companies. It is more about customers, and you can feel it in the interactions. It’s customer-centric."
Chief Technology Officer
CHALLENGES
Until a few years ago, the organization’s divisions were standalone entities with their own boards of directors, CEOs, and IT departments. Leadership decided that it would be more efficient to integrate the organization digitally and manage IT centrally. The combined IT organization, which began with just a handful of staff, has now grown significantly, including developers and infrastructure personnel. However, the team that manages security across all the enterprises consisted of only a handful people. Coordinating security for many different organizations, each of which had its own security products and solutions, was a monumental task.
The cooperative’s security team lacked adequate IT headcount to meet these challenges on its own, according their Chief Technology Officer (CTO). The organization sought to enhance its security, antivirus, and dashboard capabilities.
“The very first function we needed to bring uniformly across the whole group was cybersecurity, because cybersecurity is one of the most difficult fields to hire people in, especially as a non-technical firm.”
WHY TREND
With the small cybersecurity team, the CTO decided to seek a strategic partnership rather than invest in a single technical solution, and to grow the organization’s security fabric one product at a time. The CTO bought in to the XDR vision that Trend Micro presented, and it was aligned with what he wanted to achieve.
Trend Micro was extremely responsive to the organization’s needs, tailoring delivery of the solutions so that the security team could gain more urgently needed capabilities sooner. The communication that Trend Micro began with their security team was a differentiating factor.
“The Trend Micro team set up regular meetings with product managers to listen to our challenges and needs. It’s important for vendors to listen to customers because it is real situations and not theoretical.”
SOLUTION
The CTO knew what they wanted, and Trend Micro listened and addressed those needs. Collaboration was key in developing a solution for the organization that met the needs of their security team. The organization’s journey began with Trend Micro™ Managed Extended Detection and Response (Managed XDR), which helped accelerate the partnership by supplementing the security team with trained personnel to handle tasks without hiring additional personnel.
Following a growing roadmap, the security team expanded to Trend Micro™ Deep Discovery™ Inspector, Trend Micro™ TippingPoint™, and eventually Trend Vision One™ with XDR capabilities, which included consolidated dashboards.
“Since Trend Vision One presents findings using a common framework for detection, we benefit from better communication and fewer problems.”
Another benefit is the scanning functionality of Trend Vision One.
“When there’s an incident in one business, IT needs to make sure that it isn’t impacting the others, and Trend Vision One helps our team monitor the entire environment.”
A third benefit is the ability to go beyond standard cybersecurity events to the larger ecosystem.
“Trend Micro provides visibility across all its solutions. This connected intelligence helps us refine its threat-detection capabilities, with fewer false positives. Sensors at multiple points provide a better perspective and validation to filter results, thereby delivering more accurate alerts, saving time, and reducing reliance on headcount.”
"The Trend Micro team set up regular meetings with product managers to listen to our challenges and needs. It’s important for vendors to listen to customers because it is real situations and not theoretical."
Chief Technology Officer
RESULTS
The comprehensive set of Trend solutions enables the organization to achieve high levels of security without adding headcount. For example, patching can be a challenge for a small team, and the shift to a work-from-home environment due to COVID has exacerbated the situation. Having products such as TippingPoint, with its virtual patching capabilities, helps alleviate the time pressure and makes life much easier for the team. And Trend Micro endpoint protection solutions detect malware threats targeting work-from-home staff.
“We’ve had cases where our Trend Micro solutions have detected ransomware incidents, and Trend Micro stopped them before they even took off.”
The CTO also says that the relationship built with Trend Micro has gained the organization’s trust in turning to the Trend Micro team with its evolving needs.
“You can tell that Trend Micro’s culture is very different from spreadsheet-driven companies. It is more about customers, and you can feel it in the interactions. It’s customer-centric.”
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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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