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>.
December 2024
Houston Cybersecurity Conference, Virtual and Houston, Texas: December 4
Dallas Cybersecurity Conference, Dallas, Texas: December 5
Mexico City Cybersecurity Conference, Mexico City, Mexico: 5 December
BSidesDresden, Dresden, Germany: 7 December
BSidesCapeTown, Cape Town, South Africa: 7 December
SANS Cyber Threat 2024, virtual and London, UK: 9-10 December
Forrester Security & Risk, Baltimore, Maryland: December 9 – 11
Gartner Identity & Access Management Summit, Grapevine, Texas: December 9 – 11
Atlanta Cybersecurity Conference, Virtual and Atlanta, Georgia: December 11
OT/ICS Virtual Security Summit, Virtual: 12 December
BSidesLondon, London, UK: 14 December
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
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
Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit, Mumbai, India: 10 – 11 March
St. Louis Futurecon Cybersecurity, Missouri, US: 12 March
SANS New2Cyber Summit, virtual: 13 March
Next IT Security, Stockholm, Sweden: 13 March
Next IT Security, Amsterdam, Netherlands: 15 March
Gartner Identity & Access Management Summit, London, UK: 24 – 25 March
Philadelphia Futurecon Cybersecurity, Pennsylvania, US: 27 March