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>.
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
BSides Amsterdam, the Netherlands: 20 November
Boston Cybersecurity Conference, Massachusetts, US: 20 November
BSides Chile, Concepción, Chile: 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
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
May 2026
CyberSecFest SP, São Paulo, Brazil: May TBC
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