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 MoreVirtustream secures mission-critical data for enterprise customers with Trend Micro Deep Security
Secures mission-critical data for enterprise customers with Trend Micro Deep Security
Virtustream is a global provider of mission-critical cloud solutions, providing enterprise-class expertise and innovation to customers worldwide. A Dell Technologies business, with offices in North America, Europe, and Asia, Virtustream helps enterprises, governments, healthcare, and service providers move their mission-critical data and applications to the cloud.
Through its dedicated private cloud, Virtustream manages applications for enterprises of all sizes, including enterprise resource planning (ERP), electronic medical records management, and big data systems. Born in the cloud, Virtustream specializes in mission-critical workloads, expert professional and managed services, cloud software and services, enterprise-class infrastructure as a service (IaaS), cloud management software, and ERP. Virtustream’s experts help enterprises increase performance and availability, modernize IT, reduce costs, enable powerful security, and stay on top of regulatory compliance and reporting requirements.
Virtustream requires robust security to protect both its own systems and its customers’ data. Since customers often connect their private Virtustream environment to their own corporate networks, Virtustream must constantly work with data coming into its network—creating a unique security challenge. “We have to ensure that we catch and contain all malware coming into our environment to prevent it from spreading and contaminating sensitive customer data,” says Alon Diamant-Cohen, security operations service delivery lead for Virtustream.
Virtustream’s multi-tenant environment requires the ability to easily create and customize new tenants and functionalities for each customer while keeping customer data fully segregated. In addition, safe, easy, and consistent access for customers is a must for any cloud service provider. As a result, Virtustream needs to employ security tools that allow access to mission-critical applications without slowing down customers or causing system outages.
To complement its private cloud services, Virtustream also acts as a security vendor. Originally, the company offered only antivirus and anti-malware services to customers. In 2014, Virtustream looked to expand its line of optional managed security services but found that its existing security vendor limited its ability to accomplish that.
"Customers who are using Deep Security have had tremendous success managing their mission critical data and maintaining compliance within the Virtustream Enterprise Cloud."
Alon Diamant-Cohen
Security Operations Service Delivery Lead
Virtustream
Virtustream’s primary concern is to ensure its customers’ mission-critical applications and data are secure. Since Virtustream supports highly-regulated markets like healthcare, government, and education, meeting industry-specific regulatory requirements is critical. In 2015, the Virtustream team met with Trend Micro and discussed a partnership that would allow the company to ensure that customer data and applications are protected, while also allowing Virtustream to expand its managed security offerings to better serve its customers.
After discussing the options, Virtustream chose Trend Micro™ Deep Security™. In addition to enabling best-of-breed security, Deep Security’s modularity and depth of features allows Virtustream to offer its customers customized private cloud solutions tailored to meet their business needs.
With Deep Security, Virtustream delivers the security its customers need to meet strict privacy, compliance, and regulatory requirements for standards such as Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP), International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). “It’s hard to overstate how important compliance is to our customers across a number of industries,” says Diamant-Cohen. “Deep Security helps us ensure that we are compliant, and that our customers can achieve compliance in our cloud.”
Deep Security offers great flexibility, allowing Virtustream to sell standalone services and customize the policies being enforced in those services to meet customer needs. Deep Security also enables Virtustream to easily streamline, automate, and scale its security and virtual private cloud capabilities. “Along with security, load balancing and failover are critical capabilities when we’re supporting a customer’s critical business functions,” says Diamant-Cohen.
"Trend Micro takes our needs seriously. It’s one thing to say, ‘We hear you.’ It’s another thing to have your needs completely resolved within a week."
Alon Diamant-Cohen
Security Operations Service Delivery Lead
Virtustream
Since deploying Deep Security, Virtustream and its customers have successfully mitigated attempted attacks originating from a variety of threat vectors. “Customers who are using Deep Security have experienced nothing but success,” says Alon Diamant-Cohen. “The stability has been excellent, and the number of serious security issues has been minimal.”
Trend Micro’s ongoing research gives Virtustream confidence in their ability to stay on top of new threats, with the level of transparency and support from Trend Micro being a true differentiator. “Early on, we had some big customers we weren’t equipped to manage on our own,” says Daniel Shaul, Virtustream’s team lead for security managed services. “Once we had Trend Micro’s support, those customer relationships blossomed.”
The Virtustream team has developed a strong and productive relationship with Trend Micro, based on mutual support. “We have a direct line to the company,” says Diamant- Cohen. “Trend Micro takes our needs seriously. It’s one thing to say, ‘We hear you.’ It’s another thing to have your needs completely resolved within a week.”
Virtustream is seeing steady increases in new business and heightened demand for its managed security services. “Now that we have a partner that works with us, we need to continue incrementally automating the service delivery elements of the process,” says Diamant-Cohen. “Trend Micro is a valuable partner that is helping us meet our growing business and security demands. We plan to continue working with them to create more agile and automated security solutions for our current and future customers.”
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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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