Tracking postponements, cancellations, and conferences gone virtual — CSO Online’s calendar of upcoming security conferences makes it easy to find the events that matter the most to you. Credit: Django / Getty Images 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 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe