Belgium 25-9-25 Invitation Only Physical english
As AI shapes our future, the time is now to address and correct its inherent biases. Join leading female voices in tech as we explore how to undo past mistakes, champion neutrality, and feed AI systems with inclusive, unbiased data. This conference is a call to action for female leaders in AI and tech to ensure the next generation of intelligent systems reflects fairness, diversity, and equity. Together, let’s set things right and redefine the future of AI.
Read MoreBelgium 25-9-25 Invitation Only Physical english
On 25th September, during the Red Hat Summit: Connect 2025 in Brussels, CIONET is hosting an exclusive, invitation-only round table for leading CIOs, CTOs, and digital leaders. While the Summit offers a broad programme, this CIONET session is a separate, distinct event, conducted in its own dedicated room with private catering, ensuring a focused and confidential peer-to-peer discussion. This round table will delve into why certain cloud-native techniques offer undeniable benefits, irrespective of where your applications are deployed, be it on-premise, in a hyperscale cloud, or a hybrid environment. Even outside public clouds, these modern, modular architectures consistently deliver increased agility, enhanced scalability, and quicker time-to-market. The real power behind these advantages lies in automation. When done properly, automation significantly boosts team efficiency, improves system quality, and drastically cuts risks from slow systems or downtime. However, achieving truly effective automation comes with its own set of challenges, which we'll address head-on. Key Discussion Points Include: "No-Regret" Cloud-Native Pillars: We'll try to pinpoint essential techniques every organisation should adopt, such as microservices architecture, containerisation (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), API-first design, stateless application design, and immutable infrastructure. Why are these crucial for modern applications, no matter the deployment location? Strategic Vendor Lock-in: How to judiciously manage vendor lock-in. For new innovations and applications with a relatively short life expectancy, leveraging the latest unique features of a hyperscale cloud might be beneficial. For long-lived applications (expected to be live for decades), the focus might shift to limiting exposure by utilising generally available technologies. Automation Anywhere: How can organisations effectively implement automation strategies to unlock the full potential of cloud-native initiatives across diverse infrastructures? What are the biggest hurdles, and how are leaders overcoming them? This CIONET round table offers a unique and intimate setting for digital leaders to gain critical insights, exchange perspectives, and shape the strategic path towards application modernisation that truly offers no regrets.
Read MoreBelgium 30-9-25 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 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 MoreOctober 14, 2025 Squad Session Squad Only Virtual english
Agile delivery often collides with inflexible infrastructures. One team wants to release weekly. Another is waiting six months for a new test environment. Sounds familiar? If your infra team is tired of being the bottleneck, and your devs are tired of waiting, this session opens a path forward.
Read MoreProtecting the company against industrial espionage and adapting operations to the General Data Protection Law (GDPL)
OVERVIEW
Bruning Tecnometal, the leader in the agricultural, road, automotive and construction segments, is one of the largest companies in the metal-mechanical segment in the State of Rio Grande do Sul. With 79 years of history and around 1.5 billion in annual revenue, the metallurgy company applies modern technology in stamping, machining, welding, and painting processes to manufacture lighter, more durable, and more efficient metal parts and assemblies.
Located in the city of Panambi, Bruning has a client portfolio that includes prominent names on the national and multinational scene such as General Motors, Mercedes-Benz, Scania, Volvo, AGCO, Caterpillar, Iveco, John Deere, CNH Industrial, among others.
"The main point of Trend is that it offers a tool that delivers protection that adds value to the company, so much so that since 2018 we have not had any ransomware incidents"
André Prado
Senior IT Analyst, Bruning Tecnometal
CHALLENGES
In 2019, due to the considerable increase in cyberattacks and greater targeting by hackers, Bruning decided to deepen the six-year partnership via IntegraSul with Trend Micro, a leader in information security.
“Bruning was the second Trend customer in Latin America to implement the Deep Discovery solution,” recalls Marcelo Pacheco, CEO of IntegraSul.
In addition to complying with the General Data Protection Law (GDPL), Bruning’s concern was to protect customers’ strategic information, guaranteeing the confidentiality of commissioned projects. After all, there are many cases of industrial espionage, and ransomware attacks have also been growing at an alarming rate.
“Information security levels have never been more critical. That’s why we opted for an XDR solution—to have better assertiveness in terms of information and know exactly where the problem is, and for greater speed in reacting and resolving incidents, should they occur,” highlights André Prado, senior IT analyst at Bruning Tecnometal.
WHY TREND
To keep Bruning one step ahead of attackers, IntegraSul monitors the market and follows new trends and technologies in the security area, evaluating the points of greatest attention and the key vulnerabilities.
Since Trend has always been a strategic partner of Bruning, it was only natural for the consultancy firm to frequently present new tools and platforms created to improve Bruning’s security posture.
“When it comes to cybersecurity, organizations must constantly assess their risk management maturity level and plan the improvements necessary to protect their business models. Relying on the expertise of a specialized consultancy firm, which frequently presents emerging strategies to strengthen the digital environment, is one of the ways to maintain resilience,” explained Rodrigo Garcia, head of sales at Trend Micro Brazil.
SOLUTION
The Trend Vision One platform was chosen by Bruning to ensure the protection of the attack surface and the management of the company’s SOC when the IT sector decided to migrate its servers to the cloud and create controls with multiple layers of security.
Bruning also acquired the Smart Protection Suites package, which includes Cloud App Security (CAS), Email and App Security, Trend Micro Apex One, XDR for Endpoints and Workload Security for servers, in addition to DLP, both for the security of engineering files and the exchange of information in general.
RESULTS
The intuitive dashboards, user-friendly interface, and useful functionalities are the biggest differentiators of Trend Vision One, in the opinion of Bruning’s senior IT analyst.
“It would not do any good to have a beautiful, well-made graphic that in practice did not work. The main point of Trend is that it offers a tool that delivers protection that adds value to the company, so much so that since 2018 we have not had any ransomware incidents,” revealed Prado.
Another advantage of Trend Vision One, highlighted by Prado, is the flexibility that the platform offers by adding several optional features that can be enabled (i.e. contracted) or not, at the customer’s sole discretion, in addition to integration with other solutions.
“Trend Vision One came to solve our problem of having one different tool for each task running at the same time. The integration it provides has made our lives a lot easier,” he said.
According to Prado, the platform also acts proactively in relation to control.
“When I have an incident in part of my network, for example, I can isolate the structure of those computers potentially affected by an infection or vulnerability, without having to go like crazy looking for a switch,” explained Prado.
The CEO of IntegraSul also highlighted the learning opportunity that Trend Vision One offers, should an incident occur.
“Without the solution we have no possibility of analyzing and understanding how the incident started and why it occurred,” added Pacheco.
The harmony of the partnership with IntegraSul is also strongly appreciated by Prado.
“There’s no point in having a strong product or robust solution available on the market if you don’t have partners capable of carrying out this work. I would like to thank IntegraSul for its dedication and commitment, and to Pacheco for driving the good results that we have accumulated in recent years, especially with regard to business intelligence, bringing the best tools on the market and taking on the challenge of maintaining the company operational, 24 hours a day, seven days a week,” highlighted Prado.
Created in April 2023, the Trend Vision One application is a differentiator highlighted by Bruning. The resource allows real-time monitoring of the organization’s Risk Index, workbench, and main security notifications. The Risk Index measures and weighs the risk of vulnerabilities, security controls and misconfiguration, asset criticality, detections, account compromise, anomalies, and cloud activity data, and categorizes risk factors to provide visibility into users, devices and the use of virtual applications that pose some risk or danger to the infrastructure.
“The [Trend Vision One] app has brought great mobility because we have the information at our fingertips. With it, we can quickly assess all risks. Imagine how hard it would be to find out in a few minutes—or seconds—how many devices were affected by a threat and whether it is very serious or not, in a network as big as ours, with almost two thousand devices. Therefore, having this information by just looking at a cell phone screen—and knowing whether you have to wake everyone up or if you can go to sleep in peace—is a huge advantage,” concluded Prado.
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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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