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Belgium 6-11-25 Invitation Only Physical english

CIONET Round Table: Securing Your Digital Crown Jewels

The modern cyber threat landscape has evolved from simple data breaches to sophisticated, systemic attacks designed to cripple an entire organisation. Ransomware, in particular, has made traditional backup and recovery strategies insufficient, as attackers often compromise backups before launching their main assault. In this new reality, the question is no longer "if" an attack will happen, but "when” and how quickly you can recover. Furthermore, regulations like DORA and NIS2 are making robust recovery a legal imperative, compelling businesses to adopt solutions that can guarantee data integrity and business continuity even after a catastrophic cyber event, making a Cybervault a critical component of regulatory compliance.

Belgium 13-11-25 Country Members Physical english

The New CISO - CIONET Belgium: Community Event

The Role of the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) The role of the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is no longer confined to securing the network perimeter. As organisations become more digitally connected and data-driven, the CISO’s responsibilities have expanded far beyond traditional security measures. Today’s CISO must not only defend against cyber threats but also enable the business to innovate securely, manage complex regulatory environments, and instill a culture of trust across the organisation. This event will explore the evolving role of the CISO as a strategic leader who balances security with business enablement. As digital transformation accelerates, how can CISOs align their security strategies with organisational goals, ensure compliance, and lead their teams in the fight against increasingly sophisticated threats? Key Discussion Points: From Gatekeeper to Strategic Partner: How CISOs can shift from being seen as barriers to innovation to becoming key enablers of business agility and transformation through security. Balancing Risk and Innovation: Learn how top CISOs navigate the delicate balance between mitigating risk and supporting the organisation’s need to innovate and scale in a secure environment. Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC): Explore how CISOs are managing an increasingly complex regulatory landscape, ensuring compliance while still driving business objectives forward. Building a Security-First Culture: Practical strategies for CISOs to foster a culture where security is embedded into every part of the business, from boardroom discussions to frontline operations. CISO as Crisis Manager: How to prepare for and lead your organisation through major cybersecurity incidents. From ransomware attacks to data breaches, we’ll discuss how today’s CISO is as much a crisis manager as they are a strategist. Why You Should Attend: As a CISO, your role is evolving faster than ever before. This event is designed to provide you with actionable insights into how to embrace your expanded responsibilities while keeping your organisation safe and secure. Whether you’re focused on aligning security with business goals, navigating regulatory challenges, or leading in times of crisis, this event will equip you with the strategies to lead the next era of cybersecurity.

Belgium 18-11-25 Squad Only Physical english

Business Process Driven Architecture ; Designing systems that follow how your organisation actually works

Too often, architecture is drawn top-down, neat boxes, elegant flows, and little connection to the way teams really work. But what if we flipped it? What if our systems evolved from the actual processes, pains, and needs that drive the business? If you’re tired of systems that look good on slides but frustrate in practice, this session will ground the conversation where value is created, at the process level.

November 4, 2025 Squad Session Squad Only Virtual english

From Backlog to Value ; Prioritising what matters when everything feels urgent

You’ve got a roadmap, a backlog, and a lot of pressure. Every team wants their feature. Every stakeholder claims urgency. And your developers? They just want to deliver something meaningful. But how do you prioritise in a way that serves the business, and keeps the team sane? If your backlog keeps growing and your outcomes stay flat, this session helps you turn intent into value, without losing control.

November 18, 2025 Squad Session Squad Only Physical english

Business Process Driven Architecture ; Designing systems that follow how your organisation actually works

November 20, 2025 Squad Session Squad Only Virtual english

Data Spaces and Digital Trust ; What it takes to collaborate safely across ecosystems

You can’t build a smart service without smart data. And you can’t access smart data without trust. Across Europe, industries are trying to make this work, through data spaces, standardisation, and new governance frameworks. But progress is slow. If you’re part of a sector with potential for shared intelligence, but stuck in silos, this session will challenge assumptions and explore practical pathways.

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Impetus Technologies increases Visibility and Security for Global Endpoints with Trend Micro Vision One™

Increases Visibility and Security for Global Endpoints with Trend Micro Vision One™

OVERVIEW

Impetus Technologies, a software products and services company, focuses on helping enterprises achieve their digital transformation goals. Headquartered in Los Gatos, California, it has offices in the U.S, India, and Canada with Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies as its customers.

For Impetus, cybersecurity is more than just a good business practice. It serves as an assurance for its customers. Impetus prioritizes data privacy and security, and clearly demonstrated these priorities to its clients.

The granularity of detection capability offered by Trend Micro’s platform helped us gain much-needed visibility of attack vectors in our environment hence reducing MTTD and MTTR.

Vikas Khandelwal - Director of Information Technology, Impetus

With the onset of the pandemic, the swift and sudden shift of employees from on-site to remote work environments challenged organizations. The increase in remote computing also created endpoint risks that many companies had not fought against before.

“The surge in cyberattacks globally complicated things further. Threat detection and response was getting harder while using our legacy on-premises endpoint protection platform (EPP). The signature-based detection was ineffective against unrecognized attacks and was unable to give us visibility around what was happening at the endpoint level that could possibly lead to an attack,” says Vikas Khandelwal, director of information technology at Impetus.

The legacy endpoint security tool proved to be ill-equipped to deal with modern security threats. In addition, the service and support for the platform was declining, and escalations went unresolved.

“In such circumstances, we decided to upgrade our endpoint defenses and went to find a better endpoint security platform that also included EDR capabilities,” says Vikas.

WHY TREND

To address risks and challenges, the Impetus team evaluated various EDR solutions. Impetus performed a proof of concept with four different providers. Using an internally developed scorecard to evaluate the various aspects most important to their security needs, the team found Trend Micro to be the best fit for its requirements.

“Not all endpoint security products are rated equal. We found Trend Micro Vision One™, with its extended detection and response capabilities, performed better than other solutions at detecting threats on the endpoint and for providing protection against the next generation of attacks. What I liked about Trend Micro’s platform was the granularity of detection capability that helped us gain visibility on attack vectors in our environment, hence reducing mean time to detect or discover (MTTD) and mean time to respond (MTTR). While other providers had similar offerings, they were not as comprehensive, and could not provide visibility beyond endpoints. Trend Micro Vision One provided coverage for endpoints and also goes beyond to cover email and cloud workloads as well. We can now cross-correlate detections across these multiple layers which is helping us to preempt potential security threats in advance,” says Vikas.

“We were fortunate that the transition to Trend Micro XDR was smooth and without many hiccups. We faced some challenges, but the support from Trend Micro helped us handle the issues,” says Vikas.

Trend Micro Vision One not only provided coverage for endpoints but went beyond to cover email and cloud workloads as well.

Vikas Khandelwal - Director of Information Technology, Impetus

RESULTS

With XDR in place, Impetus now has a better overall security posture in terms of earlier detection and complete remediation.

Today, Trend Micro Vision One supports 2,500 endpoints. “We are growing at a high speed and we should have around 4,000 endpoints by next year. The cloud-based XDR will address this scale,” says Vikas.

WHAT'S NEXT

“Our security partners must have integrity and the same passion for their services as we have at Impetus. Trend Micro gives us that. They give us the comfort that we are secure,” says Vikas.

Considering the current work environment, Impetus will be on the lookout for scalable security solutions to mitigate all kinds of challenges and attack vectors.

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Apex One™ Cloud One – Workload Security Trend Micro Cloud App Security™ Trend Vision One™ cloud security platform

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