> The CSO guide to top security conferences

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 *This event is run by CSO’s parent company Foundry