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Belgium Sep 24, 2025 Invitation Only Physical english

Bridging the Unbridgeable: IT Meets M(i)OT ; Converged infrastructures demand converged security

As smart devices proliferate across operational environments — from sensors on factory lines and GPS trackers in logistics fleets to wearables in healthcare and connected systems in smart cities — the integration of Managed IoT (MiOT) is accelerating. But with it comes a surge in cybersecurity risks. No longer isolated or air-gapped, OT systems are becoming fully networked, remotely accessible, and deeply entwined with IT. This creates a vulnerable, highly complex digital mesh, one where a single compromised device can trigger physical, financial, and reputational consequences.

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UK Sep 24, 2025 Country Members Physical english

CIONET UK Business Community Program: Creating agile partnerships – making the right choice between in and out-sourcing

Join us for our community event on 24th September in London. Join us for our community event on 21st May in London. Sponsored by Business Partners Cognizant, Orange Business, Entelect, Strategy, Stefanini & Thoughtworks.

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Belgium Sep 25, 2025 Invitation Only Physical english

The power of Hybrid - Cloud-Native Application Modernisation as a No-Regret Move

On 25th September, during the Red Hat Summit: Connect 2025 in Brussels, CIONET is hosting an exclusive, invitation-only round table for leading CIOs, CTOs, and digital leaders. While the Summit offers a broad programme, this CIONET session is a separate, distinct event, conducted in its own dedicated room with private catering, ensuring a focused and confidential peer-to-peer discussion. This round table will delve into why certain cloud-native techniques offer undeniable benefits, irrespective of where your applications are deployed, be it on-premise, in a hyperscale cloud, or a hybrid environment. Even outside public clouds, these modern, modular architectures consistently deliver increased agility, enhanced scalability, and quicker time-to-market. The real power behind these advantages lies in automation. When done properly, automation significantly boosts team efficiency, improves system quality, and drastically cuts risks from slow systems or downtime. However, achieving truly effective automation comes with its own set of challenges, which we'll address head-on. Key Discussion Points Include: "No-Regret" Cloud-Native Pillars: We'll try to pinpoint essential techniques every organisation should adopt, such as microservices architecture, containerisation (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), API-first design, stateless application design, and immutable infrastructure. Why are these crucial for modern applications, no matter the deployment location? Strategic Vendor Lock-in: How to judiciously manage vendor lock-in. For new innovations and applications with a relatively short life expectancy, leveraging the latest unique features of a hyperscale cloud might be beneficial. For long-lived applications (expected to be live for decades), the focus might shift to limiting exposure by utilising generally available technologies. Automation Anywhere: How can organisations effectively implement automation strategies to unlock the full potential of cloud-native initiatives across diverse infrastructures? What are the biggest hurdles, and how are leaders overcoming them? This CIONET round table offers a unique and intimate setting for digital leaders to gain critical insights, exchange perspectives, and shape the strategic path towards application modernisation that truly offers no regrets.

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Belgium Sep 25, 2025 Invitation Only Physical english

Women of CIONET - Female Leadership Circle 2

As AI shapes our future, the time is now to address and correct its inherent biases. Join leading female voices in tech as we explore how to undo past mistakes, champion neutrality, and feed AI systems with inclusive, unbiased data. This conference is a call to action for female leaders in AI and tech to ensure the next generation of intelligent systems reflects fairness, diversity, and equity. Together, let’s set things right and redefine the future of AI.

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Poland Sep 25, 2025 All Members Physical Polish

COMMUNITY EVENT #7: HUMAN MACHINE

Agenci AI to przyszłość, która wyniesie organizacje na inny poziom dostarczania wartości biznesowej. Już teraz wiadomo, że nowa generacja inteligentnych agentów zmienia sposób, w jaki firmy działają, podejmują decyzje i się rozwijają. Podczas siódmego Community Eventu wraz z ekspertami AI sprawdzimy: możliwości, które dają agenci; jak wprowadzić governance i umiejscowić w organizacji tysiące sztucznych pracowników; jak zapewnić bezpieczeństwo, gdy każdy z agentów może wykonywać inne operacje; jaki jest wpływ wykorzystania agentów na koszty i środowisko; jak zmienia się pozycja firmy na rynku. Omówimy, jak liderzy IT i cyfrowi mogą i muszą strategicznie dostosować się do tej nowej rzeczywistości. Zarejestruj się już teraz i zapewnij sobie miejsce!

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Italy Sep 25, 2025 Invitation Only Physical italian

Innovation in Balance: governing the power of data and automation

Nel percorso verso l’AI e la trasformazione digitale, dati e automazione sono gli elementi centrali di ogni strategia tecnologica. Ma senza una governance chiara, rischiano di diventare non solo fonte di inefficienza, ma anche di rischi e incoerenza.   Come garantire che i dati siano completi, accessibili e affidabili? Come automatizzare le operation IT e i processi aziendali mantenendo controllo, compliance e sicurezza?   Durante questa roundtable esclusiva, organizzata da CIONET Italia e IBM, affronteremo:   La governance come abilitatore di dati affidabili e automazione sicura. Come prepararsi a un’adozione dell’AI realmente scalabile. Il ruolo di controllo, resilienza e gestione del rischio nell’innovazione.

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Arteris protects hybrid cloud environment with scalable, reliable security from Trend Micro

Arteris, a leading highway concession company in Brazil, faced a formidable challenge in protecting its vast digital infrastructure from increasing cyber threats. Trend Micro's advanced technologies and expertise proved to be the ideal choice, enabling Arteris to fortify its defenses and ensure the continuity of its essential services.

OVERVIEW

Arteris is one of the largest highway concession companies in Brazil. It is part of a division of Abertis, a world leader in the management of toll roads and infrastructure. With over 2,100 miles of tolled roads under its administration, including both federal and state roads, the company runs over 80 toll plazas, which include more than 900 booths and automated terminals. Arteris manages 700 million vehicles every year. To support this massive operation, Arteris has over 5,500 employees, with 3,000 of them working in back-office roles, dependent on technology to do their jobs.

The whole operation is supported by a large private optical fiber network, covering its extensive territory and connecting its operation centers. There are a total of 200 addresses throughout its operating areas. This allows for maximum connectivity, with total support for the heavy data traffic flowing among its many operation centers, while also offering maximum system uptime and making it possible to run the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) technology. This tool enables the company to measure traffic density with precision, grants a near-total visual coverage of its roads, and cuts down response times to accidents and traffic events to a few minutes, as required by their strict SLA with the government.

 
 

CHALLENGES

As a large company with massive operations, the organization becomes a large attack surface for cybercriminals. When Luiz Ritzmann, CIO for Arteris, was assigned to run the company’s technology, one of his first steps was to assess what the most critical security demands were and which resources were dedicated to those tasks. As well, he took time to examine what incidents had the potential to compromise the security of user and internal structures, and evaluated the efficiency of all security tools being used.

“In a world where you create complexities that bring you benefits, you also generate downsides in managing this complexity”, stated the CIO. This has been confirmed by studies carried out by his security specialists; the company has been attacked, on average, 80,000 times every month. Nearly 60 percent of this total focused on the data center in the city of Araras, in the state of São Paulo, where the servers for the institutional website, SAP appliances, internal services, and other critical systems are located. In addition to the external attacks, their high number of workers result in the use of over 2,000 endpoints every day, presenting the added danger of phishing and business email compromise (BEC) scams.

Another important issue was related to Microsoft® Office 365®. Due to its cloud nature, the platform generates traffic that is outside the defenses of the company. That is why Arteris needed a security solution that would prevent Office 365 from being exploited as an entry point, and then moving towards more critical parts of the system.

 

Trend Micro solutions tackle the problem head-on, allowing us to identify the threats right away and stop it from spreading throughout the network.

Luiz Ritzmann

CIO, Arteris

 
 

SOLUTION

After carefully analyzing all available solutions, Ritzmann realized Trend Micro already was his primary supplier for defense technology and made sure it stayed that way. He concluded that all Trend Micro products in use were effective and reliably protected all critical environments of his company. He highlighted three main areas:

  • Endpoints: The massive data flow, inbound and outbound, generates opportunities for malware and viruses to gain access to the system. It is also a major target for phishing and social engineering attacks. In this area, the security tools block the access of malicious agents.
  • Servers: These highly critical environments contain enormous quantities of sensitive data, and are extremely valuable to hackers. Trend Micro™ Deep Security™ offers proactive, complete protection for physical, virtual, and cloud servers. This product allows for the quick identification of suspicious activities and precise intervention, in the case of unauthorized activities.
  • Traffic: In addition to protecting stationary data, Arteris relies on Trend Micro™ Deep Discovery™ to analyze traffic in real time, identifying suspicious packages and using sandboxing to analyze and respond adequately to dangerous elements.


“Trend Micro solutions tackle the problem head-on, allowing us to identify the threat right away and stop it from spreading throughout the network”, states Ritzmann. These products are designed for maximum effectiveness for standalone and combined solutions, offering a solid, active defense for all of Arteris’s environment.

 

The perfect blend of endpoint and server protection, with surveillance and quick action over data traffic guarantees a significant risk reduction.

Luiz Ritzmann

CIO, Arteris

 
 

RESULTS

Ritzmann opted to keep Trend Micro as his main cybersecurity supplier as he was able to clearly see the results it was generating. According to his security team, even with the substantial amount of attacks, no significant breaches ever happened over the last year. “The perfect blend of endpoint and server protection, with surveillance and quick action over data traffic guarantees a significant risk reduction,” explained Ritzmann. Even in cases where phishing scams successfully landed a malicious agent in one of the company’s endpoints, the infection couldn’t get past that first computer—evidence of the reliability of Trend Micro’s connected solutions.

This partnership should keep growing strong, as new projects for a private cloud take shape, and Arteris shifts from an on-premises to a cloud model. More operation efficiency is expected for the company, as it will have even more consistent data analysis, more network resources, and a proven, solid security system to guarantee sustainable growth for years to come.

 

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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