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Upcoming Events

 
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Belgium 3-7-25 Invitation Only Physical english

CIONET Round Table - Digital Sovereignty

Digital Sovereignty - Securing Corporate Autonomy in a Fragmented World In an era marked by geopolitical instability and escalating digital dependencies, corporate leaders face a critical imperative: reclaiming control over their digital ecosystems. This exclusive CIONET executive dinner offers a platform for CIOs, CTOs, and digital leaders to delve into strategies for achieving digital sovereignty. Key discussion points include: Redefining Digital Sovereignty for Enterprises: Exploring how digital sovereignty extends beyond national borders to encompass corporate control over digital assets, infrastructure, and data. Infrastructure Independence: On-Premises vs. Cloud: Evaluating the trade-offs between on-premises infrastructure and cloud services in the context of control, scalability, and sovereignty. Sovereign AI: Building Autonomous Intelligence: Discussing strategies for developing AI capabilities that align with corporate values and operate independently of external platforms. Vendor Lock-In and Technological Autonomy: Identifying risks of dependency on specific vendors and exploring approaches to achieve technological independence. Investing in Sovereign Digital Capabilities: Strategising investments in infrastructure, talent, and processes to build and sustain digital sovereignty. Join us for an evening of insightful discussions, shared experiences, and actionable strategies to navigate the complexities of digital sovereignty. Secure your organisation's future by understanding and implementing the pillars of digital autonomy.

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Belgium 28-8-25 Country Members Physical english

20 Years CIONET - CIONET Belgium: Summer Festival

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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Belgium 2-9-25 All TRIBERS Virtual english

What Does It Cost to Host an App? ; A practical guide to calculating hosting costs across infra, licenses, and operations

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.

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Upcoming TRIBE Events

 
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July 3, 2025 Squad Session Invitation Only Virtual polish

Własny SOC czy outsourcing? Analiza modeli operacyjnych w bezpieczeństwie IT

Zapraszamy na praktyczną dyskusję o wadach i zaletach różnych modeli utrzymania Security Operations Center. Dawid Wachowiak (TDJ) podzieli się doświadczeniami z wdrożenia i funkcjonowania modelu outsourcingowego. Porozmawiamy o tym, co wpływa na skuteczność SOC-a – od decyzji strategicznej po reakcję na incydent – i jak dopasować model operacyjny do potrzeb organizacji.

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July 14, 2025 Squad Session Invitation Only Virtual polish

Platforma KSEF – Krajowy System eFaktur

Ministerstwo Finansów zapowiedziało wdrożenie platformy KSeF na 2026 rok. Przygotowanie firm i ich systemów wymaga wiedzy o zakresie KSeF i elementach integracji na poziomie IT. Zapraszamy na kontynuację spotkania z udziałem przedstawicieli Centrum Informatyki Resortu Finansów (CIRF) i Ministerstwa Finansów.

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July 16, 2025 Squad Session Physical polish

TRIBES LEADERSHIP CIRCLE

Tribes Leadership Circle to cykliczne, wysokopoziomowe spotkania wyłącznie dla dyrektorów obszarowych, posiadających dostęp w ramach wykupionego członkostwa.

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Delivers Enterprise Level Security through Worry-Free XDR

Since Workplace IT opened in 1997, as a managed service provider (MSP), its mission has been to bring enterprise-level IT service to small businesses. Today, with Trend Micro as its strategic partner since 2008, the company delivers on that mission through the use of Trend Micro™ Worry-Free with Co-Managed XDR.

 Challenges

The majority of Workplace IT’s customers are small-to-medium–sized businesses with small IT security budgets and limited dedicated IT security teams. Those businesses rely on Workplace IT to provide the security they need, while balancing cost and benefits.

“Our customers look to Workplace IT to be the experts. They rely on us as their MSP to give them a road map for what to do to protect themselves from the cybersecurity threats they hear about,” says Brad Bell, lead network services delivery engineer at Workplace IT.

“Technology is changing so quickly and expertise is needed. It is too hard to build it yourself, so we looked at the various SOC service providers. Our goal was to partner with people who have the expertise to give us the backbone of security, and allow us to work with the customers,” says Bell.

Why Trend Micro

Workplace IT leaders examined several security vendors before partnering with Trend Micro in 2008. “The vendor partnership is about more than just product and economics. We’re all in this together. For us, it was about closing our security gaps and having a partner we could openly communicate with. We look at partnerships as a long journey and focus on their people,” says Bell.

Workplace IT leadership was also looking for a vendor willing to offer modular services so they could provide pay-as-you-go options to their financially vigilant customers. Finally, they wanted a product that could easily integrate with their existing systems and processes. Trend Micro fit the bill in all areas.

 

"Trend Micro™ Worry-Free with Co-Managed XDR has improved our business, but most importantly, we sleep better at night knowing that XDR is looking at more things, that gaps are being mitigated."

Brad Bell
Lead Network Services Delivery Engineer

 

Solution

Workplace IT implemented Trend Micro™ Worry-Free Services in 2008. Worry-Free Services is a cloud-based threat protection designed specifically for small and medium-sized businesses. With Trend Micro™ Worry-Free XDR, protection extends beyond the endpoint to offer correlation between endpoint and email, broader visibility and analytics, and more detections and earlier, faster responses.

A solution that would enable Workplace IT personnel to see and block threats across its entire customer base was another key objective. “Before, we couldn’t see what was going on across our networks. Worry-Free XDR is constantly monitoring. We get alerts through one central dashboard so we can quickly see threats across our entire customer base and take action,” says Bell.

Workplace IT added Worry-Free with Co-Managed XDR in 2020, which allowed the company to augment its services without adding resources to its team. It includes 24/7 alert monitoring by Trend Micro security experts, incident response, root cause analysis, and monthly reporting. “We didn’t want to build another department to focus on security. We wanted to partner with experts so we could spend more time focused on our customers,” says Bell. “Our goal was to partner with someone, not build it. Trend Micro was building out the SOC and we had the opportunity to influence it and decided to go with the Worry-Free with Co-Managed XDR services.”

Workplace IT played a pivotal role in helping to develop the offering. They provided valuable feedback to Trend Micro’s product and executive teams to help build the Worry-Free with Co-Managed XDR offering. “It was amazing to talk with Trend Micro’s leadership about our needs and gaps. They truly listened and asked a lot of questions. The Trend Micro team learned a lot about MSPs and are interested in investing in the market. As a result, the new offering brings enterprise-level security to small businesses,” says Bell.

 

"Worry-Free XDR gives us the ability to manage security across all of our customers to offer better protection and allows all events to be viewed together."

Mike Lenz
Network Services Engineer

 

Results

Worry-Free with Co-Managed XDR saves Workplace IT time, as the company no longer needs to single-handedly conduct investigations into security incidents. “If something strange happens at the workstation level, our staff aren’t trained to handle it. With Trend Micro’s security team behind us, we know they’ve got our back. We get expertise and reports that show a clear resolution we can share with our customers,” says Bell.

Bell and his team now get a full view of any security incidents. “Before, we knew there were security gaps, and we looked for a way to minimize those gaps. We weren’t sure we were seeing everything. Worry-Free with Co-Managed XDR closed those gaps and allow us to see all information flowing between the cloud and end users.”

The biggest benefit is the cross-customer view that Worry-Free with Co-Managed XDR enables. “We can now easily see if a security incident happening with one customer is also happening with another. It gives us the ability to quickly mitigate those threats before they cause a problem for all our customers,” says Bell.

“There were a few instances where Trend Micro took action across our customer base. For example, after a malicious email that started at one customer was sent out broadly, Trend Micro quarantined it for all users across our customer base immediately,” says Mike Lenz, network services engineer at Workplace IT. “Worry-Free XDR gives us the ability to manage security across all of our customers to offer better protection and allows all events to be viewed together.”

Bell says upgrading to Worry-Free with Co-Managed XDR has improved Workplace IT’s security posture and consequently increased its monthly recurring revenue. “Worry- Free with Co-Managed XDR has improved our business, but most importantly, we sleep better at night knowing that XDR is looking at more things, that gaps are being mitigated, and that Trend Micro is watching out for us.”

CIONET Circles

CIONET Business Circles

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Healthcare Circle

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?

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Telenet Business Leadership Circle

The 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.

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Les Rencontres

Découvrez 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 !

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Female Leadership Circle

CIONET 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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