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>.

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