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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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WESTPOLE chooses Trend Micro to secure its systems and those of its customers

Chooses Trend Micro to secure its systems and those of its customers

OVERVIEW

WESTPOLE Italia is the Italian chapter of WESTPOLE Europe, an IT services and solutions provider. With over 40 years of experience in technology management and innovation, WESTPOLE’s primary goal is to scale up digital transformation and “go to cloud” in order to enable the creation of secure, scalable, and cutting-edge innovations.

With two data centers in Milan and Rome, the company designs services for about 500 clients, including government entities, financial institutions, and private companies. WESTPOLE changes the very concept of technological transformation and does so with a pioneering spirit, passion, and empathy.

CHALLENGES

WESTPOLE’s strategy in choosing a security vendor was aimed at consolidation—one vendor that could secure the organization and its customers. WESTPOLE was looking for a single partner that would provide reliable, innovative, and affordable security.

“We began by analyzing our infrastructure, starting to lock down the endpoint,” recalls Michele Onorato, security office manager of WESTPOLE. “Later, we moved to the data center, which had to be safe for both our protection and that of customers who use our cloud.” But the WESTPOLE project did not end there, it needed security solutions that could protect the slice of customers hosted in its data centers.

"One of the greatest benefits we experienced was the consolidation Trend Micro provided, it is very nice to have a single platform to manage everything."

Michele Onorato

Security Office Manager, WESTPOLE

SOLUTIONS AND WHY TREND

After evaluating multiple vendors based on technology and flexibility, WESTPOLE chose to protect its endpoint deployments with Trend Micro Apex One™, and its data centers with Trend Micro™ Deep Security™ software, which also secures customers hosted within its own cloud. For customers outside the data center, WESTPOLE chose Trend Micro™ TippingPoint™ and Trend Micro™ Deep Discovery™ Inspector for network protection.

Apex One is an all-in-one solution that automates detection and response, providing complete visibility to IT and security teams. Compared to previous traditional antimalware solutions, Apex One is a unified platform for the management of different services, redefining endpoint security with vast capabilities offered through a single agent for SaaS and on-premises environments.

Deep Security and Trend Micro Cloud One™ – Workload Security are integrated and modular platforms that provide comprehensive protection of data centers that include physical, virtual, and cloud servers, as well as virtual desktops. Designed to defend the data center from breaches and business disruptions, Deep Security is the first and only agentless security platform that helps simplify security management and accelerate return on IT investments.

Deep Discovery Inspector is a network device that allows 360-degree control over all traffic, to detect any aspect of a targeted attack. And with TippingPoint, WESTPOLE experiences the best intrusion prevention to remain protected against all types of threats traveling at great speed anywhere on the network.

"Trend Micro solutions allow us to easily control security from a centralized console, which is essential from an operations point of view."

Michele Onorato

Security Office Manager, WESTPOLE

RESULTS

WESTPOLE adopted Trend Micro solutions to protect its infrastructure and its customers. “One of the greatest benefits we experienced was the consolidation Trend Micro provided, it is very nice to have a single platform to manage everything,” says Onorato. “As for the internal WESTPOLE side, the usability and lightness of the products were fundamental in removing the need to allocate additional resources.” Onorato went one to say that, “Customers are pleasantly surprised when they become aware of threats that were never detected by the solutions they used to have installed.”

The WESTPOLE data centers now house around a thousand machines and all customers using the WESTPOLE cloud are protected by Deep Security. “Customers can take advantage of all the features of this product, according to individual needs,” says Onorato.

As for the offer to customers outside of the data centers, “WESTPOLE is able to offer managed service solutions. Trend Micro solutions allow us to easily control security from a centralized console, which is essential from an operations point of view,” says Onorato. “Trend Micro virtual patching is also a great feature, as it allows us to secure legacy infrastructures, while avoiding significant costs for the renewal of the entire machine park,” continues Onorato.

WHAT'S NEXT

“We recently migrated to Office 365®, and the next step is to protect it with Trend Micro solutions. This protection will also be extended to the emails of all our customers and also to those who use advanced suites,” concludes Onorato.

Technologies

Apex One™ Cloud One – Workload Security Trend Micro TippingPoint Trend Micro™ Deep Security™ Trend Micro™Deep Discovery™

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