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>.
January 2026
SANS Nashville Winter 2026, Tennessee, US: 12-17 January
Los Angeles Cybersecurity Conference, virtual and California, US: 15 January
IdentityShield Summit ‘26, Pune, India: 16-17 January
Dallas Cybersecurity Conference, Texas, US: 22 January
BSidesPanamá, Panama city, Panama: 23-24 January
SANS Cyber Threat Intelligence Summit & Training, virtual and Virginia, US: 26 January – 2 February
Cybersecurity Law and Compliance, Washington, DC, US: 28 – 29 January
Chicago Cybersecurity Conference, virtual and Illinois, US: 29 January
February 2026
Cybersec Asia Shield your Core, Bangkok, Thailand: 4-5 February
Intellic0n, Texas, US: 5-6 February
CruiseCon, departs from Florida, US: 7-12 February
HackCon, Oslo, Norway: 9-10 February
#CS4CA ANZ, Perth, Australia: 10-11 February
Planet Cyber Sec Conference, California, US: 11 February
Detroit Cybersecurity Conference, Michigan, US: 19 February
BSidesGalway, Galway, Ireland: 21 February
Cosac APAC, Melbourne, Australia: 24-26 February
St. Louis Futurecon Cybersecurity, Missouri, US: 26 February
Malware and Reverse Engineering Conference MRE 2025, Melbourne, Australia: 26-27 February
BSides Seattle, Washington State, US: 27-28 February
BSides Ballarat, Melbourne, Australia: 28 Feb-1 March
March 2026
Cloud & Cyber Security Expo, London, UK: 4-5 March
@Hack, Montreal, Canada: 7-8 March
Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit, Mumbai, India: 9- 10 March
Gartner Identity & Access Management Summit, London, UK: 9-10 March
Billington State and Local CyberSecurity Summit, Washington, DC, US: 9-11 March
Critical Infrastructure Protection & Resilience North America, Louisiana, US: 10-12 March
FutureCon Tampa, Florida, US: 12 March
Next IT Security, Stockholm, Sweden: 12 March
CyberBay 2026, Florida, US: 12-13 March
Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit, Sydney, Australia: 16-17 March
SANS OSINT Summit & Training, virtual and Virginia, US: 16-22 March
SecureWorld Charlotte, North Carolina, US: 18 March
FutureCon Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US: 19 March
ASIS Europe, Antwerp, Belgium: 23-25 March
Security Leadership 2026, Utrecht, Netherlands: 24 March
InCyber Forum Europe, Lille, France: 31 Mar – 2 April
April 2026
Cyphercon, Wisconsin, US: 1-2 April
Gartner Security & Risk Summit, Dubai, UAE: 5-7 April
SecureWorld Boston, Massachusetts, US: 8-9 April
SpecterOps SO-CON 2025, Virginia, US: 13-14 April
Next IT Security, Amsterdam, Netherlands: 16 April
Aus Gov Data Summit, Canberra, Australia: 21-23 April
Black Hat Asia, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore: 21-24 April
Third Party and Supply Chain Cyber Security Summit, Munich, Germany: 22-24 April
SecureWorld Houston, Texas, US: 30 April
May 2026
CyberSecFest SP, São Paulo, Brazil: May TBC
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