The CSO guide to top security conferences

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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 2025.

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>.

October 2025

Hacker Halted, Georgia, US: 1-2 October

SecureWorld Dallas, Texas, US: 2 October

Conf42 Incident Management 2025, virtual: 2 October

Hacktivity, Budapest, Hungary: 3 October

Relativity Fest, Illinois, US: 7-9 October

Silicon Valley Cybersecurity Summit, California, US: 8 October

Uniting Women in Cyber, Virginia, US: 9 October

SecureWorld Denver, Colorado, US: 9 October

RedHat Summit Connect, London, UK: 9 October

CornCon, Indiana, US: 10-11 October

The API Security UnConference, Stockholm, Sweden: 13 October

CyberBay 2025, Florida, US: 13-15 October

Authenticate 2025 – The FIDO Conference, California, US: 13-15 October

ManuSec, Illinois, US: 14-15 October

The Cybersecurity Symposium, New York, US: 14 October

ATT&CKcon 6.0, Virginia, US and virtual: 14-15 October

Secure Dallas, Texas, US: 15 October

CyberCon Melbourne, Victoria, Australia: 15-17 October

NIST Cybersecurity Career Week Summit, Virtual: 17 October

SEC Health, Tennessee, US: 21 October

CyberTech Europe 2025, Rome, Italy: 21-22 October

DevSecCon 2025, virtual: 22 October

AI Security Summit, California, US: 22-23 October

SecureWorld Atlanta, Georgia, US: 23 October

Kaspersky Security Analyst Summit, Khao Lak, Thailand: 26-29 October

InfoSec World, Florida, US: 27-29 October

Cyberweek Africa, Nairobi, Kenya: 27-31 October

SecureWorld New York City, NY, US: 29 October

November 2025

CyberCon 2025 conference and certification, British Columbia, Canada: 3-5 November

IAM Seminar, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 4 November

#CS4CA, São Paulo, Brazil: 4-5 November

Benelux Cyber Summit, Amsterdam, Netherlands: 4-5 November

CyberSecFest BH, Minas Gerais, Brazil: 5 November

Fraud Prevention Summit, New York, US: 5 November

Red Hat Summit: Connect, Paris, France: 5-6 November

Cyber Summit 2025, Alberta, Canada: 5-6 November

SecureWorld Seattle, Washington State, US: 5-6 November

Red Hat Summit: Connect, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: 11 November

Red Hat Summit: Connect, Rome, Italy: 12 November

UKSec, London, UK: 11-12 November

AT&T Secure Connections, Texas, US: 13 November

Phoenix Cybersecurity Conference, Arizona, US: 13 November

BSides Red Rocks, Colorado, US: 14 November

BSides Munich, Bavaria, Germany: 17 November

SANS San Francisco Fall 2025, California, US: 17 November

IT + Security USA, New York, US: 17 November

Aspen Cyber Summit, Washington, D.C., US: 18 November

CyberSecFest SP, São Paulo, Brazil: 19 November

BSides Amsterdam, the Netherlands: 20 November

Boston Cybersecurity Conference, Massachusetts, US: 20 November

CISSP certification training, Netherlands and virtual: 24 November

Secure Africa Cybersecurity Summit, Nairobi, Kenya: 26 November

CISO Middle East Summit 2025, Doha, Qatar: 27 November

Cybersecurity in the Quantum Era, Abu Dhabi, UAE: 26-27 November

BSides Chile, Concepción, Chile: 29 November

December 2025

PasswordsCon, Prague, Czech Republic: 1-3 December

IT Security Summit, Munich, Germany and virtual: 1-5 December

SANS Dallas 2025, Texas, US and virtual: 1-6 December

State of Cyber Security 2025, Stockholm, Sweden: 2 December

FutureCon Austin Cybersecurity Conference, Texas, US: 4 December

Conf42 DevSecOps 2025, virtual: 4 December

3rd Annual Jacksonville Cybersecurity Summit, Florida, US: 4 December

BSides Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa: 6 December

#Risk GCC, Dubai, UAE: 8-9 December

Gartner Identity & Access Management Summit 2025, Texas, US: 8-10 December

MSSP Alert Live, Maryland, US: 8-10 December

FutureCon Nashville Cybersecurity Conference, Tennessee, US: 10 December

Defenders Tour: SecOps Workshop, Virginia, US: 11 December

SANS Cyber Defense Initiative 2025, Washington D.C., US: 12 – 17 December

January 2026

SANS Nashville Winter 2026, Tennessee, US: 12-17 January

IdentityShield Summit ’26, Pune, India: 16-17 January

February 2026

#CS4CA ANZ, Perth, Australia: 10-11 February

April 2026

Cyphercon, Wisconsin, US: 1-2 April

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