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Belgium 21-4-26 Invitation Only Physical english

From Victim to Victor: Cyber resilience is a means, providing Business Continuity the goal

In an era where every outage, audit, and cyberattack is a test of organisational survival, resilience has become the new currency of trust. While traditional perimeter security with: firewalls, intrusion detection, and scanners, remains essential, it is no longer a sufficient guarantee against modern threats that bypass these layers to penetrate your core systems. Today, enterprises require security and continuity that are built-in, not bolted-on. This CIONET roundtable focuses on the shift from reactive disaster recovery to proactive Business Continuity. Together with experts from HPE Zerto, we will explore how organisations can transform their recovery strategies into seamless continuity models.

Belgium 23-4-26 Country Members Physical & Virtual english

CIOFEST BELGIUM: Leadership in the Agentic Era

AI is no longer confined to supporting human tasks. We are entering the agentic era, where autonomous systems act on behalf of people and organisations. These agents can gather information, make decisions, negotiate terms, and even complete transactions. The implications extend well beyond technology; they touch the very foundations of business models, governance, and leadership. For CIOs and their peers, the rise of “machine customers” and autonomous partners poses new questions: Market impact: How do you compete and create value when some customers and suppliers are machines? Governance: What trust, compliance, and accountability structures are needed when AI acts independently in financial, procurement, or customer-facing processes? Leadership: How should CIOs guide their organisations in redefining roles, responsibilities, and decision-making when agents take over parts of the value chain?Business strategy: What opportunities emerge for new revenue models, platforms, and ecosystems shaped by autonomous interaction? This session shifts the focus from the mechanics of AI agents to the decisions that will shape leadership in the next decade. It is a call for CIOs to prepare for a future where relationships, markets, and strategies are no longer limited to human-to-human interactions, but also extend to human-to-machine and machine-to-machine interactions.

Belgium 29-4-26 Invitation Only Physical english

Building Future-Ready Application Ecosystems in the Age of Intelligent Automation

This CIONET workshop is a collaborative deep-dive into the practicalities of"rewiring the building" while it’s still occupied. Drawing onKyndryl’s deep heritage in mission-critical infrastructure and their latestresearch, we will dismantle the "hidden costs" of legacyenvironments. The conversation will focus on the transition from static,monolithic structures to composable architectures that allow intelligent agentsto operate seamlessly across hybrid landscapes.

April 2, 2026 Squad Session Invitation Only Virtual english

Taming the SaaS Sprawl: Tracking spend, ownership, and usage before it slips out of control

SaaS gave business units freedom: quick onboarding, no infrastructure, and instant results. But over time, that freedom turned into fragmentation. Each team now buys, renews, and configures its own stack. HR has one platform, finance has another, and marketing probably has ten. The invoices keep coming, usage keeps dropping, and no one is sure who’s accountable for what.

May 12, 2026 Squad Session Invitation Only Physical english

Product-Centric IT 2.0: Blending product and project thinking

Everyone says they’ve gone product-centric. In reality, most organisations live in a hybrid world where projects, products, and platforms overlap. Teams manage releases while still chasing deadlines, and governance still thinks in milestones rather than outcomes. The shift is underway, but the mindset hasn’t caught up.

May 19, 2026 Squad Session Invitation Only Physical english

AI vs AI in Cybersecurity: When defenders and attackers both use AI

The game has changed, clearly. Attackers have AI, defenders have AI, and both sides are learning faster than anyone expected, or maybe the attackers are just a bit faster. What used to take hours now happens in seconds, and detection windows close before alerts even appear. It’s adaptation beyond automation, and no one gets to sit still.

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Trend Micro Rescues Hampshire Fire Service Headquarters from Cyber Threats

Trend Micro Rescues Hampshire Fire Service Headquarters from Cyber Threats

OVERVIEW

Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service has been keeping the residents of the southern England county safe for over a quarter of a century. With 50 fire stations and over 70 engines operating across the Hampshire area, including the Isle of Wight, there is plenty to keep its 1,500 staff busy.

CHALLENGES

A major challenge for the IT team came two years ago when the decision was made to migrate all employees to Microsoft 365® . During this digital transformation it realized that there was a major security gap that needed addressing in order to maintain ISO compliance

WHY TREND

Hampshire Fire and Rescue Services migrated to Trend Micro™ Smart Protection Complete suite and Trend Micro™ Deep Discovery™ Inspector in early 2018.

Smart Protection Complete is Trend Micro’s flagship end user security suite designed to offer:

Centralized management via Trend Micro Apex Central™
Endpoint security – advanced detection and response, application control, vulnerability protection, and data loss prevention
Endpoint encryption
Mobile security

Web security
Email and collaboration security for email gateway, Microsoft 365, Gmail™, and cloud sharing
Endpoint detection and response (EDR)

Deep Discovery Inspector is an advanced threat protection appliance designed to offer comprehensive visibility, detection, and response capabilities. It includes:

Threat detection via monitoring all ports and more than 80 protocols
Custom sandboxes that precisely match your organization to more accurately detect threats
Deployment in hardware or virtual configurations

Global threat intelligence from the Trend Micro™ Smart Protection Network™
Specialized detection engines, correlation rules and custom sandboxing to detect all aspects of a targeted attack, not just malware

SOLUTIONS AND RESULTS

The solutions have worked to provide extra visibility and control, minimizing both cyber risk and any administrative overheads. Smart Protection Complete allows the service to keep a record of how cloud applications—like Microsoft® Teams, Microsoft® SharePoint® and Microsoft® OneDrive®—are being used and where malicious activity is happening. The Apex Central portal enables IT managers to view logs from different solutions that feed into a centralized location for quick auditing and visibility. If necessary, they can drill down for further investigations.

The Deep Discovery Inspector box has been able to block potentially catastrophic attacks and ensure that there are no dark corners for malicious actors to hide in. It has been particularly successful at shining a light on older protocols which could represent a security threat.

The migration to Microsoft 365 put the fire service in a good place operationally before the pandemic struck and forced many staff to work remotely. AddingTrend Micro to remote endpoints provides peace of mind that all user devices are protected, wherever they are.

The fire service is planning to migrate to Apex One for a fully cloud-based solution that will reduce power costs and server maintenance overheads.

Technologies

Apex One™ Trend Micro Cloud App Security™ Trend Micro Hosted Email Security Trend Micro™ Deep Security™ Trend Micro™ Smart Protection Complete Trend Micro™Deep Discovery™

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Cyber Circle

CIONET’s Cyber Circle: a new three-event programme exclusively focusing on the most urgent, complex, and high-impact challenges in cybersecurity today. Launched in 2026, this initiative brings together CISOs, CIOs, and senior IT executives with a strong interest in cybersecurity for three curated gatherings each year. As part of CIONET’s trusted executive community, the Cyber Circle provides a confidential, peer-driven environment to exchange insights, share real-world experiences, and address evolving cyber threats. Each session is designed to foster strategic dialogue, strengthen resilience, and elevate cybersecurity as a core driver of business value.

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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.