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Belgium 23-9-25 Squad Only Virtual english

Cybersecurity Without the Burnout ; Refocusing effort when alerts, threats, and pressure won’t stop

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.

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Belgium 23-9-25 Invitation Only Physical english

Reclaim the cloud : Powering Belgian Finance with Sovereignty

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.

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Belgium 24-9-25 Invitation Only Physical english

Bridging the Unbridgeable: IT Meets M(i)OT ; Converged infrastructures demand converged security

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.

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September 23, 2025 Squad Session Squad Only Virtual english

Cybersecurity Without the Burnout ; Refocusing effort when alerts, threats, and pressure won’t stop

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.

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September 30, 2025 Squad Session Squad Only Virtual english

Technical Debt: When to Pay It and When to Walk Away ; Making smart trade-offs between progress, maintenance, and risk

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.

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October 2, 2025 Squad Session Squad Only Virtual english

The Career Path of the Architect ;Great architecture begins with great architects

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.

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CHU de Charleroi (ISPPC) ensures a healthy IT environment with Trend Micro

Ensures a healthy IT environment with Trend Micro

OVERVIEW

The Intermunicipal Association for Public Health in the Region of Charleroi (ISPPC or Intercommunale de Santé Publique du Pays de Charleroi) stands for consistent, high quality care. The association manages the public hospital CHU de Charleroi as well as various services including three nursing homes and care centers, a center for youth care, out-of-school care and creches. In total, the group manages 77 sites. Specifically for CHU de Charleroi, it concerns 5 hospitals with a total of 4,200 employees and more than 400 affiliated doctors.

IT is becoming increasingly important in a hospital. “It is even critical, because the hospital could no longer function without IT. After all, everything is digital, from the EPD (Electronic Patient Dossier) up to communication (VoIP) and the functioning of the lab. But at least as important - and often vital - is the monitoring of patients (cardiac, neonatal, ...) and the building (fire detection, temperature, ...), “says Pierre Jaradin, Network Administrator at ISPPC. A recent initiative that illustrates the importance of IT in the hospital is the home-made Real Time Healthcare System (RTHS) that collects, analyzes and integrates data. In addition, the opportunities offered by IoT are examined: the refrigerators’ temperature is being monitored and IoT is also considered in combination with all possible alarms and communication systems (fire, nurse call, GTC, access control).

 
 

CHALLENGES

One of the biggest challenges of CHU de Charleroi is how to combine the many locations with the openness of IT in a hospital. “We keep our information systems as open as possible: for the medical staff, for the patients, but also for the visitors, among others. There are many ports, many networks, more and more machines that need to be connected to the network, more and more data ... The challenge consists in making sure that all this is fully secured and that only the authorized persons have access to the patients’ sensitive data."

CHU de Charleroi therefore needed a fully integrated global security solution including network security (IPS / IDS), virtual patching, sandboxing and consolidated visibility (SIEM). Pierre Jaradin: "We wanted our solution to be as proactive as possible.” An additional challenge for the IT department is that the financial resources in the public sector are rather limited, nowhere near, for example, the banking industry. “Yet we might be the second most vulnerable and targeted sector, ranking immediately behind the banking industry."

 

"The Trend Micro products offer a defense at all levels (network, system, gateway), and various functions take work off our hands."

Pierre Jaradin - Network Administrator at ISPPC

 
 

WHY TREND

CHU de Charleroi was looking for a solution that offered maximum protection with a minimum of management requirements. The above challenges do require more resources, but there is not always a budget for additional staff. Pierre Jaradin: “That’s one of the reasons why we have opted for a global, integrated security solution from Trend Micro. The Trend Micro products offer a defense at all levels (network, system, gateway). And various functions take work off our hands. Take the Control Manager, for example: it functions as a SIEM and enables the sharing of information about threats for all security systems.“

 

"The mail gateway receives 780,000 e-mails per month. 15,000 of these are spam and about 100 contain critical malware. Nowadays, all of these get detected thanks to Trend Micro solutions."

Pierre Jaradin - Network Administrator at ISPPC

 
 

SOLUTION

“We have opted for a global and integrated security solution because our team needs to manage various products (for the proxy, network, gateway, …). Having to train someone for a completely different system every time costs a lot of time and money. Moreover, our IT team operates 24/7, because a hospital does not stop at 8 pm. Therefore, our IT staff needs backups as well, so it is useful when you limit the required knowledge to the solutions of just a minimum of vendors. CHU de Charleroi selected OfficeScan (for the 2,100 workstations), ScanMail for Exchange (for the internal mail servers), Deep Discovery Inspector (to monitor the networks), Deep Discovery Analyzer (with sandboxing for all products), Interscan Web Security Virtual (IWSva for web proxy) and Interscan Messaging Security Virtual (IMSva for Mail gateway), the Trend Micro Control Manager and Deep Security (for the 600 virtual servers).

 
 

RESULTS

The different tools have a positive impact on several levels. The hospital’s overall IT security benefits, among others, from the sandboxing against advanced threats. “Each month about 38,000 files (documents, URLs, ...) are checked via sandboxing. In the last three months, 17 suspicious files totally unknown by security solutions have been detected and stopped. The mail gateway receives 780,000 e-mails per month. 15,000 of these are spam and about 100 contain critical malware. Nowadays, all of these get detected too, “says Pierre Jaradin.

The IT team itself also benefits from the new solution, mostly from the simplified management. The overview offered through Trend Micro Control Manager, the centralization of the logs and the increased proactivity in case of possible attacks are a tremendous help.

 
 

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Healthcare Circle

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?

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The 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.

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Découvrez 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 !

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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.

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