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 MoreMitra Adiperkasa infrastructure Gets Real-Time, Integrated Protection
Infrastructure Gets Real-Time, Integrated Protection
OVERVIEW
Mitra Adiperkasa (MAP) is a leading lifestyle retailer in Indonesia with a diversified portfolio that includes sports, fashion, department stores, kids, food & beverage, and lifestyle products. It has recently introduced an IT team to build IT infrastructure that is able to provide faster, reliable support required to manage corporate business presence with a network of over 2,000 retail stores and over 22,000 employees in 69 cities across the nation.
We were confident with Trend Micro’s reputation and expertise of providing us with integrated, real-time, enterprise-scale security solutions.
Suwandi Budiratma
Senior General Manager, Head of IT Infrastructure at Mitra Adiperkasa.
CHALLENGES
Serving as central source of business data and information support, IT is at the heart of the company’s business priority, and with continually growing business that demands the rapid establishment of new stores throughout the nation, the use of business-critical applications also increased, needing even faster provision of new IT resources.
The IT department realized that the increased reliance on physical servers and increasing number of applications would result in a higher cost. The use of a physical infrastructure could not meet the need for speedy delivery, causing vulnerable downtime and longer time to recover. Without applied SLAs, managing the expectation of IT services to end-users was hard.
In 2012 MAP’s IT decided to modernize their IT infrastructure and operations, and later in 2013, they migrated to the public cloud, deploying around 100 VMs to support their workloads, along with around 150 VMs in the corporate data centers. In 2015, the migration to virtualized servers was completed.
Apart from the rigid infrastructure prior the IT modernization, MAP’s previous security was standalone, posing a serious challenge when performing antivirus updates and new rules configuration. With thousands of endpoints deployed both in the head office and stores, IT was vulnerable to any attacks, like zero-days, and unknown threats.
“The ever-growing threats, like today’s ransomware, was worrying us. With around 8,000 workstations installed across the stores, they were vulnerable to virus attacks that propagated offline and online at our connected IT infrastructure. In addition to continuously raising security awareness with our end-users, we also needed to take serious proactive security measures by implementing a flexible, customizable, easy-tomanage security solution, that provided comprehensive protection, from email, VDIs, to endpoints, and provided wide insight into our data centers,” said Suwandi Budiratma, Senior General Manager, Head of IT Infrastructure at Mitra Adiperkasa.
WHY TREND
MAP’s IT department was required to assess, identify, and modify their overall security posture to ensure that the implementation of the security solutions at the endpoints were appropriate and relevant with those at the central IT, and consistent with dynamic business applications and requirements. They searched for an enterprise-class security solution that would integrate seamlessly with its existing infrastructure, was easy to configure, and scaled to meet current and future protection needs.
Budiratma said, “We were confident with Trend Micro’s reputation and expertise of providing us with integrated, real-time, enterprise-scale security solutions.”
SOLUTION
“From new extortion schemes and connected system and device threats, to sophisticated cybercrime legislation, the stakes were high with the growing threat landscape at that time. We needed a security solution that could not only prevent, detect, analyze, and respond to any form of sophisticated attacks, but also have the ability to communicate and integrate effectively, and was manageable from a single pane of glass. We considered Trend Micro because we believe that integration is at the heart of Trend Micro’s multi-layer security offerings,” said Budiratma.
In 2012, to provide proactive security measures and to protect today’s fast-growing business critical data and information traffic within the company, MAP’s IT began the proof of concept and continued with the implementation of Trend Micro’s comprehensive solutions, consisting of the Enterprise Security Suite, together with Deep Discovery™ Inspector, Endpoint Security Solutions, and TippingPoint™ Advanced Threat Protection, into their virtualized infrastructure.
RESULTS
Today, MAP’s IT achieves a new level of in-line, real-time protection with a proactive network security in place. It protects infrastructure and traffic of critical data, applications, data centers, and cloud, added with automated system remediation; all without compromising performance.
“Any breaches can now be detected and prevented before gaining foothold on our system. We now have needed visibility to monitor our resources, from endpoints at our remote stores, emails, network ports, to data centers and protocols at our head office, from our desk,” said Budiratma. “The effectiveness of our new security posture was proven when WannaCry ransomware emerged and struck across the globe, taking out servers at companies and shutting down many businesses. We did not have any incidents related to that, thanks to Trend Micro’s security solutions.”
WHAT'S NEXT
With the mission to become a world-class brand and omni-channel retail network, and the growing momentum of their online shopping mall business, MAP’s IT is looking to add additional protection that will keep them ahead of increasingly sophisticated attackers.
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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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