There is nothing like attending a face-to-face event for career networking and knowledge gathering, and we don’t have to tell you how helpful it can be to get a hands-on demo of a new tool or to have your questions answered by experts. Fortunately, plenty of great conferences are coming up in the months ahead. If keeping abreast of security trends and evolving threats is critical to your job — and we know it is — then attending some top-notch security conferences is on your must-do list for 2024.
From major events to those that are more narrowly focused, this list from the editors of CSO, will help you find the security conferences that matter the most to you. We’ll keep it updated with new conferences so check back often. While we don’t expect this calendar to be comprehensive, we do aim to have it be highly relevant. If there’s something we’ve missed, let us know. You can email your additions, corrections and updates to Samira Sarraf>.
January 2025
BSidesIslamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan: 2-4 January
Bsides Bangladesh, Cox’s Bazar Bangladesh: 10 January
IdentityShield Summit, Pune, India: 11-12 January
Los Angeles Cybersecurity Conference, virtual and California, US: 16 January
19th Global Conference on Cyber Security and Cloud Engineering (GCCSCE), Sydney, Australia: 17-19 January
Cybersec Asia 2025, Bangkok, Thailand: 22-23 January
Chicago Cybersecurity Conference, virtual and Illinois, US: 23 January
BSidesPanamá, Panama city, Panama: 23-25 January
SANS Cyber Threat Intelligence Summit & Training, virtual and Virginia, US: 27 January – 3 February
CISO-CIO Forum, California, US: 29 January
Cybersecurity Law and Compliance, Washington, DC, US: 29-30 January
Dallas Cybersecurity Conference, virtual and Texas, US: 30 January
February 2025
Security Leadership, Bunnik, Netherlands: 6 February
BSidesAbuja, Abuja, Nigeria: 8 February
CruiseCon, departs from Florida, US: 8-13 February
BSidesICS/OT, Florida, US: 10 February
Unhacked International Cybersecurity Conference, Vienna, Austria: 10-12 February
HackCon, Oslo, Norway: 12-13 February
Intellic0n, Texas, US: 18-19 February
Kyiv International Cyber Resilience Forum 2025, TBC: 19-20 February
RuhrSec, Bochum, Germany: 20-21 February
BSidesGalway, Galway, Ireland: 22 February
Sunshine CyberCon, Florida, US: 24-25 February
SANS OSINT Summit & Training, virtual and Virginia, US: 24 February – 3 March
Cosac APAC, Melbourne, Australia: 25-27 February
Detroit Cybersecurity Conference, Michigan, US: 26 February
Planet Cyber Sec Conference, California, US: 26 February
SecureWorld Financial Services Virtual Conference, Virtual: 27 February
Re//verse, Florida, US: 28 February-1 March
March 2025
NullCon, Goa, India: 1-2 March
Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit, Sydney, Australia: 3 – 4 March
Convene: Clearwater 2025, Florida, US: 3 – 4 March
ASIS Europe, Dublin, Ireland: 4-6 March
Enterprise Security & Risk Management UK, London, UK: 5 March
Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit, Mumbai, India: 10 – 11 March
Critical Infrastructure Protection & Resilience North America, Texas, US: 11-13 March
St. Louis Futurecon Cybersecurity, Missouri, US: 12 March
SecureWorld Boston, Massachusetts, US: 12 -13 March
Cloud & Cyber Security Expo, London, UK: 12-13 March
SANS New2Cyber Summit, virtual: 13 March
Next IT Security, Stockholm, Sweden: 13 March
Next IT Security, Amsterdam, Netherlands: 15 March
Identity Management Dach, Frankfurt, Germany: 20 March
Gartner Identity & Access Management Summit, London, UK: 24 – 25 March
Philadelphia Futurecon Cybersecurity, Pennsylvania, US: 27 March
SpecterOps SO-CON 2025, Virginia, US: 31 March – 1 April
April 2025
Identity Management Europe, Utrecht, Netherlands: 1 April
Forum Incyberate Europe, Lille, France: 1-3 April
Aus Gov Data Summit, NSW, Australia: 1-3 April
Gartner Security & Risk Summit, Dubai, UAE: 7-8 April
RH-ISAC Cyber Intelligence Summit, Missouri, US: 7-9 April
Third Party and Supply Chain Cyber Security Summit, Lisbon, Portugal: 9-11 April
Minneapolis Futurecon Cybersecurity, Minnesota, US: 10 April
IAM Tech Day, São Paulo, Brasil: 10-11 April
Cybersecurity Summit: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India: 23 April
UK CyberWeek, London, UK: 23-24 April
Toronto Futurecon Cybersecurity, Ontario, Canada: 24 April
International Symposium on Digital Forensics and Security, Massachusetts, US: 24-25 April
RSA Conference 2025, California, US: 28 April – 1 May
Cyber Intelligence Europe, Madrid, Spain: 29-30 April
May 2024
SecureWorld Healthcare Virtual Conference, virtual: 1 May
GISEC Global, Dubai, United Arab Emirates: 6-8 May
SEKOP Munich, Bavaria, Germany: 8-10 May
BSides Adelaide, South Australia, Australia: 12-13 May
FutureCon Seattle, Washington State, US: 15 May
Next IT Security, Amsterdam, Netherlands: 15 May
CyberWiseCon Europe, Vilnius, Lithuania and virtual: 20-23 May