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.
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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 MoreParamount Land gains next-level protection with agentless security from Trend Micro
Gains next-level protection with agentless security from Trend Micro
OVERVIEW
In 2014, the growing demand of residential and commercial property was at an all-time high, and has since driven a wider opportunity for Paramount Land, a leading property company in Indonesia, to expand business, along with its commitment to building homes and people with heart. As business requirements and standards rose, the corporation needed to adopt new business processes, which required various business and IT applications. This drove the need for Paramount Land IT to procure new physical servers, adding weight to the already complex operational and maintenance duties. The data center was then scattered and rigid, inadequate to accommodate a growing number of users utilizing around 16 business applications and a large number of databases.
CHALLENGES
Servicing around 1,000 end-users inside the company was not an easy feat and posed a higher security risk. Accordingly, Paramount Land had to secure their business PCs and IT systems by implementing countermeasures like standalone, perimeter-based, traditional security and firewalls to its data centers and antispam protection to endpoints.
This also led to trouble for IT when the antivirus became end of support, as they needed to perform a new separate subscription for each protection agent at different times, adding more unnecessary work for IT.
New problems emerged when scheduled antivirus scanning was done at an inappropriate time, during work hours when employees were using their computers. On the downside, the previous antivirus weighed down resources, forcing system slowdowns and further complaints from end-users.
The traditional protection deployed at Paramount Land was insufficient in anticipating one of the worst nightmares in enterprise security: ransomware.
WHY TREND
“We were affected by a Locky ransomware attack and since Paramount Land aims to expand business to an ever-growing e-marketplace for property, this posed a more serious challenge to our IT team to build a more robust, comprehensive security in our environment, from data centers, web security, networks, to endpoints,” said Andi Irawan, IT Infrastructure Specialist at Paramount Land. In 2016, Paramount Land had an opportunity to conduct a free 30-day trial of Trend Micro Endpoint Security, which included integrated Data Loss Prevention (DLP) protection, which infuses high-fidelity machine learning into a blend of threat protection techniques to eliminate security gaps across Paramount Land and protects user activities and endpoints across all devices and applications. Together, with a leading provider of in-depth penetration testing and assessment advisory service, corporate IT concluded that the solution provided by Trend Micro was 100 percent viable.
With Deep Security deployed in our system, we now have the needed visibility and control over our IT from sophisticated attacks, bringing a next level security to our cloud environment without disrupting or slowing down performance.
Andi Irawan
IT Infrastructure Specialist, Paramount Land
SOLUTION
The increased complexity meant that infrastructure was susceptible to downtime as a result of a system failure, delaying day-to-day business operations. IT infrastructure at that time was not able to deliver service at an optimal pace. And that was the time when Paramount Land decided to move its workloads to the cloud with Microsoft™ Azure® in 2016.
The complexity of the cloud made IT security assessments and measures more difficult to address. The security concerns often overshadow its technical and economic benefits.
To fully embrace the cloud, Paramount Land needed security that preserved its economic and operational benefits, and delivered elastic, flexible, and scalable security solutions that was compatible with the Azure environment. That was when the team decided to go further with another Trend Micro offering—Trend Micro™ Deep Security™ solution.
RESULTS
“With Deep Security deployed in our system, we now have the needed visibility and control over our IT from sophisticated attacks. It also helps us to instantly patch servers virtually at any event of vulnerabilities, taking approximately 1-2 minutes to patch, until an official patch by vendor is released and deployed. This stops attackers from gaining a foothold in our system, bringing next-level security to our cloud environment without disrupting or slowing down performance, as we all know that many security solutions out there can really eat up computer resources,” said Irawan. Herry Susanto, Solution Architect CRM & e-Commerce at Paramount Land, added, “Deep Security helped us easily secure, monitor, and manage all of our Azure workloads, enabling IT to gain wide visibility to analyze, detect, and block up to 100 percent of threats until today, and with the Trend Micro™ Endpoint Security Solutions, we experienced close to zero intrusions to our endpoints, increasing our end-user satisfaction.”
With robust security in place and critical security issues resolved, Paramount Land can now focus on what matters most – being a business enabler, instead of corporate spender.
WHAT'S NEXT
Today, as Paramount Land’s property e-marketplace is gaining growth, it is expecting to explore security solutions that defend against the evolving web threat landscape, secure web gateway, and combines application control with zero-day exploit detection, advanced anti-malware scanning, real-time web reputation, and flexible URL filtering to provide superior threat protection.
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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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