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 MoreEnsures multi-layer security across endpoints, networks, and servers with our comprehensive security solutions
OVERVIEW
Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd. originally started as a stock broking company and has now grown to offer a range of financial services, including private wealth management, retail broking and distribution, institutional broking, asset management, investment banking, private equity, commodity broking, currency broking, wealth management, and home finance. Since its inception over 30 years ago, Motilal Oswal has served a diversified client base of more than 10,000,000 customers, including retail customers, mutual funds, foreign institutional investors, financial institutions, and corporate clients. The company is driven by its philosophy of “solid research, solid advice” and uses cutting-edge technology to deliver its solutions across over 2,200 locations, in over 500 Indian cities.
They are the recipient of several awards, including being awarded “Best Performing National Financial Advisor - Equity Broker” for five years in a row at the UTI-CNBC TV18—Financial Advisor Awards and “Brand of the Year Award” at the CNBC TV18—India Business Leadership Awards.
CHALLENGES
As one of India’s leading financial services companies, Motilal Oswal was already using Trend Micro™ OfficeScan™ solution on its endpoints, but they now required advanced security for its network and servers. With over 2,200 locations, across over 500 Indian cities, the endpoint environment was distributed and complex, which requires smart protection to block exploits and zero-day threats. Motilal Oswal also required a solution that would provide network visibility and comprehensive security to protect their highly classified data and business critical applications. Lastly, Motilal Oswal wanted an augmented, multi-layer approach that provided a single console to monitor the security landscape across endpoints, networks, and servers.
Trend Micro’s solutions enable us to offer our customers a truly secure environment that is seamless in performance. Our organization has benefited immensely from the reduced downtimes and real-time protection from the threat landscape.
Pankaj Purohit
CIO, Motilal Oswal Financial Services
WHY TREND
After conducting a proof of concept (POC) with several vendors, Motilal Oswal decided to continue its already successful relationship with Trend Micro. Trend Micro was able to stitch a tailor-made solution to protect the client’s endpoints, networks, and servers through their Connected Threat Defense. This type of defense provided an integrated and layered approach to assess potential vulnerabilities and proactively protect them. Motilal Oswal was thrilled that they could gain key insights on lateral movements as well as the ability to deploy virtual patches and consequently reduce downtimes.
The final lure for Motilal Oswal was Trend Micro’s strength in the industry. As a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms since 2002, along with earning the rank of “most effective recommended breach detection system” for two years running by NSS Labs, they knew Trend Micro was the right choice.
We gained an excellent solution in Trend Micro’s comprehensive security suite. The main benefits of improved protection and enhanced visibility, without compromising on performance enabled us to gain a safe environment within a cost-effective budget.
Sehul Shaht
VP - IT Infrastructure, Motilal Oswal Financial Services
SOLUTION
Motilal Oswal decided to roll-out Trend Micro™ Smart Protection Suite for endpoints, Trend Micro™ Deep Discovery™ Inspector for networks, and Trend Micro™ Deep Security™ with anti-malware and intrusion prevention modules for the servers. The Smart Protection Suite provides Motilal Oswal with the most complete user protection available against today’s evolving threat landscape. It protects against unwanted and unknown applications executed on endpoints by delivering multiple layers of threat protection and data security.
Deep Security safeguards the servers from threats by closing the gaps in protection efficiently and economically across the data center. With emergency patching, the servers are protected against zero-day malware, network-based attacks, and operational impact from resource inefficiencies.
The intrusion prevention module examines all incoming and outgoing traffic for protocol deviations, policy violations, and content that signals an attack. It then automatically protects against known, unpatched vulnerabilities by virtually patching them from an unlimited number of exploits.
Deep Discovery Inspector provides comprehensive threat detection and 360-degree visibility on the network, by monitoring all ports and protocols to identify attacks. Through specialized detection engines, correlation rules, and custom sandboxing, Deep Discovery Inspector is able to detect all aspects of a targeted attack.
The integrated Connected Threat Defense approach automatically identifies new threats and distributes the suspicious objects to the endpoints, helping improve visibility on the network, as well as enhance protection for endpoints.
We opted for Trend Micro’s solutions due to their unique capabilities of virtual patching which shields vulnerabilities in critical systems until a patch is available and the layered approach of a Connected Threat Defence which provides real-time response. The results were greater visibility, enhanced security, and a much lower burden on IT.
Amit Ghodekar
CSO, Motilal Oswal Financial Services
RESULTS
Motilal Oswal has been very happy with the benefits experienced since expanding their security with Trend Micro. Now that the client has a multi-layered security, they can enjoy seamless integration and automation of different security techniques working together and complementing each other. As well, they have had a reduction in unscheduled downtimes, and gained greater visibility through single window management. Overall, Trend Micro’s robust security solutions have proactively increased operational performance and provided Motilal Oswal enhanced protection against threats.
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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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