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 MoreTrend Micro powers NHS cloud pioneer SLAM with multilayered security
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLAM) has significantly improved its security posture with Trend Micro. Trend Micro’s Deep Security enables SLAM to effectively protect its infrastructure from threats such as WannaCry. This has not only improved security, but also accelerated cloud adoption and led to cost savings.
OVERVIEW
The South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLAM) is a London-based NHS trust specializing in mental health. It consists of four campus sites and over 70 community sites, with more than 5,000 employees. Stuart MacLellan is the head of operations for digital service at SLAM, where his team manages thousands of endpoints leveraging private and public cloud infrastructures.
Prior to choosing Trend Micro, MacLellan and his team were constantly challenged by high volumes of malware and viruses on the network, which led to system outages on occasion and ultimately a poor customer experience. In mission-critical environments like hospitals, this kind of impact is unsustainable in the delivery of critical frontline services.
At the same time, SLAM was evolving its infrastructure by adopting cloud services. It was the first NHS trust to migrate to Microsoft® Office 365® and moved to Microsoft® Azure® for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) on the first day of its launch in the UK. MacLellan recognized the need for a cloud-ready product suite to provide unified protection against zero-day and emerging threats across physical and hybrid cloud environments. He also required comprehensive threat detection at the network layer, which could be viewed holistic.
WHY TREND
For six years, SLAM has relied on Trend Micro to protect its 5,000 employees and clients using Trend Micro™ Smart Protection Suites, a multi-layered product approach to security that includes OfficeScan™ endpoint solution and InterScan™ Web Security Virtual Appliance. That superior performance and ability to root out threats gave MacLellan the confidence he needed to deepen the partnership with Trend Micro to include enhanced cloud and network security.
SLAM enhanced its protection with Trend Micro™ Deep Security™, Deep Discovery™ and Cloud App Security to secure their hybrid cloud data center, network, and cloud application layer.
"We’re a small team and run security as a linear layer across all our departments, so ease-of-use was essential. With Deep Security you get a holistic view from endpoint to servers and from cloud to network inspection, which was exactly what we needed."
Stuart MacLellan - Head of Operations for Digital Service, SLAM
SOLUTION
Deep Security is Trend Micro’s flagship data center security platform, offering unparalleled protection for physical and hybrid cloud environments, all from a single console. Deep Security is optimized for many of the most popular cloud platforms on the market, including Microsoft Azure.
It offered SLAM:
Deep Discovery is Trend Micro’s award-winning advanced threat detection tool. Powered by XGen™ security, it’s designed to monitor all ports and over 105 different network protocols. This allows you to discover advanced threats and targeted attacks moving in and out of the network and laterally across it.
Cloud App Security offers comprehensive protection in Office 365 environments, using sandbox analysis to spot and block ransomware, business email compromise (BEC), and other advanced threats. Over the past two years it has stopped over six million threats not spotted by Microsoft.
RESULTS
SLAM has already seen a range of benefits resulting from its decision to deepen its investment with Trend Micro. MacLellan was particularly impressed by the ability of Deep Security to offer management capabilities from a single pane of glass.
“We’re a small team and run security as a linear layer across all our departments, so ease-of-use was essential. With Deep Security you get a holistic view from endpoint to servers and from cloud to network inspection, which was exactly what we needed,” MacLellan explains. “Although we added more protection to our organization through the various suites, the centralized pane of glass Trend Micro offers hasn’t added any management overheads. It’s more efficient than having four different vendors in place.”
What’s more, Deep Security kept the organization safe from WannaCry while SLAM’s counterparts in the wider NHS were less fortunate. An estimated 19,000 operations and appointments were cancelled as a result of the WannaCry ransomware attack in May 2017.
“We had protection through virtual patching and got assurance through talking to Trend Micro support. It was a very controlled and managed experience for SLAM,” says MacLellan.
That protection has been matched by Trend Micro™ Deep Discovery™ Inspector and its ability to hunt down threats at the network layer, as well as Cloud App Security, which blocks malware targeting SLAM’s Office 365 platform.
Most importantly, having an effective, optimized layer of security in place has helped SLAM accelerate its adoption of cloud services to become a more agile and efficient organization. This has generated significant cost savings through improved capacity management, whilst driving a shift from being “a reactive IT department to a proactive, consultative department that is working to make the business better.”
"Although we added more protection to our organization through the various suites, the centralized pane of glass Trend Micro offers hasn’t added any management overheads. It’s more efficient than having four different vendors in place."
Stuart MacLellan - Head of Operations for Digital Service, SLAM
WHAT'S NEXT
With Trend Micro providing peace of mind to the IT team, they now have the time to look at more strategic plans, which will further help to reduce cyber risk. Improving incident response is high on the list, especially in light of the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), says MacLellan.
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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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