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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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Netherlands Oct 7, 2025 AB Members Physical dutch

Advisory Board Meeting

De Advisory Board van CIONET NL komt samen. We bespreken de planning voor 2025 en discussiëren over specifieke en door de board aangedragen onderwerpen.

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Spain Oct 8, 2025 Country Members Physical spanish

DATA Quest 2025

En un mundo cada vez más acelerado y competitivo, la gestión y el análisis de datos ya no son suficientes. Las grandes compañías deben avanzar hacia un enfoque basado en eventos, impulsado por la automatización y la analítica predictiva, para anticipar cambios, prevenir riesgos y capitalizar oportunidades.

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Belgium Oct 9, 2025 Country Members Physical english

Belgium's Got Talent '25 - CIONET Belgium: Community Event

Today’s IT world moves faster than ever. New tools, new ways of working, constant updates!  The real challenge? Making sure your people stay in the loop, up to speed, and ready to move. That’s why this year’s edition of Belgium’s Got Digital Talent is all about mastering knowledge flow, how to share the right know-how with the right people, at the right time. No more teams working in silos. No more vital info getting lost.We’re diving into practical ways to keep your teams smart, agile, and aligned. Whether you're leading an IT team, shaping digital strategy, or hiring tech talent, this event will give you the ideas, tools, and energy to turn fast change into a competitive edge.

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Netherlands Oct 9, 2025 Invitation Only Physical dutch

Cognizant CIO Vision Dinner: Gen AI & Smart Industry

CIO Vision Dinner: GenAI & Smart Industry – Van Predictive naar Proactief

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UK Oct 9, 2025 Country Members Physical english

Mastering Digital Sovereignty: From the Network to the Data

Join us on the evening of 9th October for dinner and discussion in the company of experts from BT and Cisco. Hosted at an exclusive venue, this is the perfect opportunity to network, exchange ideas with your peers and leave with actionable insights.

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Saga Group accelerates digital transformation with Trend Micro's advanced attack surface visibility

Accelerates digital transformation with Trend Micro's advanced attack surface visibility

OVERVIEW

With more than 50 years in the automotive market and dozens of dealerships spread across the country, the Saga Group represents 22 automakers, with its target audience being both end consumers, as well as fleets and tenders.

Founded by entrepreneurs from the State of Goiás, the group has a gross revenue of BRL $8 billion. It also operates in the shopping center segment through Saga Malls, which represents seven projects located in the Brazilian Midwest region, totaling around 400 thousand square meters of gross leasable area. In 2021, the Saga Group appeared in the “Valor 1000 Yearbook” as the 150th largest company in Brazil.

 

We chose Trend Micro because we wanted a broad and robust solution, but with a simple and intuitive dashboard, to understand our weaknesses in adherence to the GDPL

Gabriel Giannotti

Head of Infrastructure, Saga Group

 
 

CHALLENGES

To become a leader in the market, the Saga Group adopted a strategy that involved a portfolio of brands. It restructured the company to reduce costs in order to gain scale, maintain satisfied employees, and diversity its business.

Part of the company’s strategy to deal with the dynamic automobile segment was to invest in a digital transformation that would bring agility and technological readiness to respond to market changes, and enable it to innovate.

Starting in 2016, the Saga Group began investing heavily in migrating its systems to the cloud. Along with this shift came the concern about the growth of cyber attacks and the need to have a security platform that protected digital assets, detecting threats with speed and efficiency.

 
 

WHY TREND

One of the biggest concerns was having visibility of the attack surface and keeping the cloud functional, with a comprehensive view of the environment. The security posture management tool Saga chose was Attack Surface Risk Management. “We needed to consolidate our tools into a platform that was scalable and protect our virtual and cloud environments. It also needed to be easy to deploy and use on a daily basis,” highlighted Gabriel Giannotti, head of infrastructure at the Saga Group.

Workload Security was also implemented to ensure flexibility and optimization, and avoid any interruptions to the company’s activities. “We chose Trend because we wanted a broad and robust solution, but with a simple and intuitive dashboard, to understand our weaknesses in adherence to the GDPL,” added Giannotti, referring to the General Data Protection Law, which came into effect in September 2020.

 
 

SOLUTION

Since beginning its migration journey to the cloud, the Saga Group has relied on consultancy from IPSense, a company specialized in cloud computing management and monitoring.

Orchestrating AWS resources through AWS Control Tower, IPSense developed a cloud strategy with the aim of improving the governance, security level and tangibility of all available resources, thus increasing the maturity of the Saga Group’s infrastructure.

From there, a landing zone was created and integrated into ASRM for Cloud, covering aspects of governance, connectivity, compliance, scalability, and security. The configuration provided automation, monitoring, and management capabilities for security policies. It is worth highlighting that all hiring was carried out via the marketplace, without any bureaucracy, with just a few clicks.

According to Giannotti, an important factor in choosing the Trend solution—in addition to its ease of use—was the centralized management from a single control panel, which shows the evolution of compliance on a day-to-day basis. “The [ASRM for Cloud] report provides me with one snapshot a day and this helps me sell my work. I can show the CEO what we have already accomplished and where we still need to work to move forward,” he explained.

Gianotti also highlighted his trust of IPSense’s team, which works daily in close collaboration with his IT personnel, “Choosing a partner with strong leverage is essential for our business. IPSense is committed to providing us with the latest technology, as fast as possible, and that is why we believe in the internal development of our solutions. We approach the market rather aggressively, and for that we must have access to the most innovative and disruptive tools available.”

 
 

RESULTS

The Saga Group has noted an increase in the quality of threat detection and responses since adding the ASRM for Cloud implementation. Shortly after installing workload security in its environment, the Group identified a latent threat that could have caused serious issues.

“Without visibility into the environment to analyze threats, the company would work in the dark and be exposed, putting its operations and reputation at risk. With [Trend], it is possible to detect failures and clearly see vulnerabilities and areas that can be improved in the cloud,” explains Head of Sales, Trend Micro Brazil, Rodrigo Garcia. “The support and strategy developed by IPSense were fundamental to Saga Group’s digital transformation process, presenting global cybersecurity trends and helping the company reduce risks, without losing operational efficiency,” he added.

ASRM for Cloud tools and reports have significantly simplified the company’s compliance work, as the platform not only identifies violations of adopted security and operational excellence frameworks, but also immediately recommends suitable remediation.

“Our roadmap has a strong focus on security. With the growth of data hijacking attacks, the GDPL sanction, and now account hijacking, we were extremely worried. Now we are 100% sure that we have greatly reduced our exposure to all of those risks,” concluded Gabriel Giannotti.

 

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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Geopolitical tensions have dominated the headlines for over two years now. In this context, the cyber threat landscape is also evolving rapidly. The protection and security of critical infrastructure – both physical and digital – is becoming increasingly important.

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