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 MoreLeverages Trend Micro Cloud One to boost cloud security and compliance
Silicon Overdrive chose Trend Micro as their security and compliance partner to help deliver on their security-first approach when helping customers leverage the power of cloud providers.
Silicon Overdrive, established in 1995, helps customers to understand and uphold their portion of the shared responsibility model to ensure data and workloads are not at risk of being compromised. Based in South Africa, Silicon Overdrive provides IT managed services, support, and solutions. Their teams have significant experience and expertise in AWS, Microsoft® Azure™, Microsoft 365®, Microsoft® Intune®, Microsoft® Teams® collaboration, ICT security, compliance and auditing, SEO services, and software development. Further, Silicon Overdrive assists customers in migrating, securing, optimizing, and managing their IT infrastructures, as well as achieve and maintain security compliance.
Ensuring that their customers secure their workloads and adhere to their specific industry compliance requirements, such as PCI DSS, ISO 27001, POPIA, GDPR, and HIPAA, Silicon Overdrive designed a series of assessments and refined them over the years. “The assessments were performed manually and were thus time-consuming,” says Warwick Levey, Sales and Marketing Manager at Silicon Overdrive.
As an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner, Silicon Overdrive also leverages the AWS Well-Architected Review (WAR) framework. This framework is designed to help cloud architects build secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient workloads. Silicon Overdrive needed a cost-effective solution that would allow them to speed up and automate Well-Architected Review assessments.
“With Trend Micro Cloud One – Conformity, we can decrease the time it takes to identify security risks and work towards remediating those risks before the customer has any business impact,” says Levey.
"The fact that Trend Micro products seamlessly integrate into the AWS environment without hindering system performance was another selling point."
Warwick Levey
Sales and Marketing Manager, Silicon Overdrive
Silicon Overdrive chose Trend Micro as their preferred security and compliance solution. “We selected Trend Micro based on the comprehensive security and compliance checks, automated self-healing, remediation recommendations, and reporting across a customer’s various environments. We were not able to find another solution as comprehensive,” says Levey
“The fact that Trend Micro products seamlessly integrate into the AWS environment without hindering system performance was another selling point. Our customers don’t want to add something into their environment that’s going to impact performance. With Trend Micro, our customers get automated scans and critical alerts while maintaining the same performance,” says Levey.
Trend Micro also helps Silicon Overdrive customers ensure compliance with PCI DSS, ISO 27001, GDPR, and other compliance standards.
Silicon Overdrive began using Trend Micro Cloud One – Workload Security to secure customer IT environments without compromising performance. “Trend Micro Cloud One – Workload Security is our solution of choice to ensure our customer’s cloud environments are secure and meet compliance requirements,” says Ross Davie, Business Development Director at Silicon Overdrive.
Trend Micro Cloud One – Conformity was added to help them assess customer environments faster. “As our journey into cloud evolved, Trend Micro Cloud One – Conformity was a natural progression for us, specifically for compliance customers, because it automates the security and compliance checks we were doing manually,” says Levey.
Conformity also automates many of the WAR technical assessments, freeing up Silicon Overdrive team members to focus on remediation efforts. “Our goal is to remediate any risks immediately. Conformity allows us to do just that,” says Levey.
"As our journey into cloud evolved, Trend Micro Cloud One – Conformity was a natural progression for us, specifically for compliance customers, because it automates the security and compliance checks we were doing manually."
Warwick Levey
Sales and Marketing Manager, Silicon Overdrive
Silicon Overdrive’s partnership with Trend Micro helps secure customer environments so they can get the most from their cloud investments. For example, Silicon Overdrive currently works with an e-commerce company that must maintain confidentiality, integrity, and availability of its customers’ records while meeting security, GDPR, and POPI compliance requirements. Working with Silicon Overdrive, the company uses Conformity to ensure that all those requirements are met. Conformity scans the company’s environment every hour and sends relevant alerts to the team. “If a notification comes in, an engineer can log into the customer environment and remediate the issue,” says Levey.
These alerts are ranked as the top Conformity feature by Levey’s team. “My favorite element is the real-time monitoring and alerting,” says Charlton Daniels, Silicon Overdrive’s Senior AWS Technical Lead. “The automated security alerts offer our customers protection in real-time,” adds Christopher Voges, a Silicon Overdrive AWS Engineer.
Conformity reporting options include AWS Well-Architected Review, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, GDPR, HIPAA, and NIST which result in significant time and cost savings for the customer. “Trend Micro Cloud One - Conformity is a welcome addition to our Well-Architected Review process. This is due to the extensive security checks and compliance reporting we get access to, coupled with the automated self-healing functionality,” says Levey.
Silicon Overdrive has a clearly defined goal of helping customers solve business challenges using the best suited technology in the market. This focus has led to various engagements across Africa and beyond. “We are excited about the possibilities the partnership with Trend Micro has brought forward. We believe this partnership will continue to strengthen and grow”, says Levey
“As companies embrace the new business challenges and work from home, Conformity can help companies secure and adhere to compliance standards effortlessly and at a much lower price point,” concludes Davie.
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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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