Belgium 23-9-25 Squad Only Virtual english
Security teams are overwhelmed. Too many tools. Too many alerts. Too few people. And now, increasing pressure from the board to protect everything, everywhere, all the time. Expect honest reflection, shared strategies, and a conversation that cuts through compliance noise and focuses on what to do when your team is stretched and your risk is rising.
Read MoreBelgium 23-9-25 Invitation Only Physical english
In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, the financial services industry in Belgium faces a critical juncture regarding its cloud adoption strategy. While the allure of cloud computing – with its promise of scalability, agility, and innovation – is undeniable, the unique regulatory demands and paramount need for data sovereignty present significant challenges. This CIONET roundtable, aims to bring together Digital Leaders from the Belgian financial sector to discuss how to navigate these complexities. We will explore how financial institutions can leverage cloud technologies while ensuring complete control over their data, maintaining compliance with stringent European regulations like GDPR and DORA, and mitigating geopolitical risks.
Read MoreBelgium 24-9-25 Invitation Only Physical english
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.
Read MoreSeptember 23, 2025 Squad Session Squad Only Virtual english
Security teams are overwhelmed. Too many tools. Too many alerts. Too few people. And now, increasing pressure from the board to protect everything, everywhere, all the time. Expect honest reflection, shared strategies, and a conversation that cuts through compliance noise and focuses on what to do when your team is stretched and your risk is rising.
Read MoreSeptember 30, 2025 Squad Session Squad Only Virtual english
Everyone has technical debt. The question is what to do with it. Refactor now? Wait for the next feature? Build on it and hope it holds? If you’re tired of debating whether to clean up or move on, this session helps you frame the debt conversation in a way that supports both speed and stability.
Read MoreOctober 2, 2025 Squad Session Squad Only Virtual english
Architecture doesn’t happen in diagrams. It happens in minds, seasoned, curious, sharp minds that understand how the pieces fit. But who’s shaping these minds? Who’s growing the next generation of digital architects? If you’re responsible for complex systems, and for the people designing them, this session is for you.
Read MoreTransforming BW Group’s cyber security with a risk-centric approach
Our new cyber threat management programme is delivering a closed-loop approach to tackling business risk.
Overview
In 2017 we began working with BW Group to implement a wide-ranging security transformation programme. As one of the world’s leading maritime groups who provide energy transportation, infrastructure services and renewable solutions across the energy value chain, a robust cyber security approach is critical to ensure uninterrupted business continuity.
Looking to the future, BW Group set out to build a next generation cyber platform to meet growing business demands and evolving needs. They began a cyber maturity journey that would protect them in an emerging threat landscape.
Building a visionary security architecture and laying the foundations for a Zero Trust approach was a timely move, enabling BW Group to switch seamlessly to secure remote working when the pandemic began. Now, as office working re-emerges, the company is able to flexibly scale their security to meet new needs.
The challenge
BW Group wanted to put robust security at the heart of their operation. Patric Desanti, BW Group’s VP and Head of Group IT and Digitalisation, formulated a vision of what success would look like and how BT could help him realise it. He knew that it must involve a cyber maturity journey, beginning with generating accurate and actionable cyber risk insights that he could swiftly raise to board level.
His ambition was to create a closed-loop threat management programme that picked up vulnerabilities, assessed, contextualised and prioritised them and then tracked the results of any action, before feeding learnings back into the system. Establishing a new cyber risk frontier specific to business lines and their critical assets was essential to managing BW Group’s cyber risk exposure as they positioned themselves for the future.
I could see that our cyber threat levels were increasing, as cyber attackers moved away from focusing on the financial services industry to target other traditional sectors like maritime. It was critical that we embarked on a significant cyber maturity journey, shifting from a reactive security posture to a proactive one, identifying threats early, assessing their risk and taking action to protect our business in an increasingly sophisticated virtual environment. BT helped us to identify the capabilities we need and was able to deliver on those.”
Patric DesantiVP, Group IT and Digitalisation, BW Group
The solution
We helped transform BW Group’s approach to manage cyber threats with a proactive, real-time programme that focuses on key vulnerabilities.
Our service follows risks from early identification through to resolution, including:
assessing risk and determining priorities by combining information on the criticality of the asset and its current resilience
internal and external scanning to detect adversaries combined with intelligence on the broader threat landscape, such as the National Vulnerability Database and our global Security Operations Centres
building integrated firewalls, network devices and threat detection controls into the network to determine security gaps and identify any exposure vulnerabilities
using hot spot analysis and attack simulation to identify and address risk-causing vulnerabilities
upskilling internal teams and ongoing consultation and management services.
In addition, as more of BW Group’s applications move to the cloud, we also assist with conducting due diligence and third-party risk assessments.
The result
BW Group now know that their business-critical systems are protected, no matter how quickly new cyber threats emerge. They’re confident they can proactively reduce the chance of a cyber attack or data breach - now they focus on the most critical vulnerabilities by quantifying and prioritising risk exposures. This has also unlocked savings, cutting risk assessment costs by 90% and cutting patching costs by 50%.
Their threat management programme is embedded into the business as a mature, closed-loop process that tracks and learns from activity results. Now, the exposure time to critical risks is less than 24 hours, down from weeks or months, and practical remediation plans are generated quickly. This frees up BW Group’s security experts to focus on other tasks.
It’s been a pleasure to bring BW Group’s vision to life, bringing together aspects of our global security practice to deliver a platform that prepares them to meet any security challenges that may emerge in the future. They now have the cyber outcomes they wanted, and continue to move forward with their transformation, keeping their cyber risk within their tolerance range. We look forward to continuing to support BW Group on their cyber maturity journey.”
Rodney KinchingtonRegional Managing Director, APJC and MEA regions, Business, BT
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Digital Transformation is redefining the future of health care and health delivery. All stakeholders are convinced that these innovations will create value for patients, healthcare practitioners, hospitals, and governments along the patient pathway. The benefits are starting from prevention and awareness to diagnosis, treatment, short- and long-term follow-up, and ultimately survival. But how do you make sure that your working towards an architecturally sound, secure and interoperable health IT ecosystem for your hospital and avoid implementing a hodgepodge of spot solutions? How does your IT department work together with the other stakeholders, such as the doctors and other healthcare practitioners, Life Sciences companies, Tech companies, regulators and your internal governance and administrative bodies?
Read MoreThe Telenet Business Leadership Circle powered by CIONET, offers a platform where IT executives and thought leaders can meet to inspire each other and share best practices. We want to be a facilitator who helps you optimise the performance of your IT function and your business by embracing the endless opportunities that digital change brings.
Read MoreDécouvrez la dynamique du leadership numérique aux Rencontres de CIONET, le programme francophone exclusif de CIONET pour les leaders numériques en Belgique, rendu possible grâce au soutien et à l'engagement de nos partenaires de programme : Deloitte, Denodo et Red Hat. Rejoignez trois événements inspirants par an à Liège, Namur et en Brabant Wallon, où des CIOs et des experts numériques francophones de premier plan partagent leurs perspectives et expériences sur des thèmes d'affaires et de IT actuels. Laissez-vous inspirer et apprenez des meilleurs du secteur lors de sessions captivantes conçues spécialement pour soutenir et enrichir votre rôle en tant que CIO pair. Ne manquez pas cette opportunité de faire partie d'un réseau exceptionnel d'innovateurs numériques !
Read MoreCIONET 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. Our mission is to shine the spotlight a little brighter on female role models in IT, Tech & Digital, and to empower each other through this inner network community.
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