The cybersecurity community is very active locally and nationally at events across the USA.
We took some time and put together a list of the top 31 cybersecurity conferences, events, and workshops with links and details to help you plan which cybersecurity events you or your team members will attend in 2024.
Name of Event: SANS Cyber Threat Intelligence Summit & Training 2024
Description: This is the summit for anyone involved in cyber threat intelligence (CTI), from novices to experts, to acquire practical knowledge, fresh viewpoints, and new perspectives that challenge traditional CTI assumptions.
When: January 29 – February 5, 2024 (Summit: Jan 29-30 | Training: Jan 31 – Feb 5)
Where: Washington DC + Virtual
Link of Event: https://strobes.co/blog/top-10-must-attend-cybersecurity-conferences-in-2024/#sans
Name of Event: Innovate Cybersecurity Summit
Description: Innovate Cybersecurity Summit is a highly anticipated summit that brings together Cybersecurity Executives and CISOs from all corners of the country, assembling a national community of professionals for three days of exclusive, invite-only discussion and learning.
When: February 25 – 27, 2024
Where: Nashville, Tennessee
Link of Event: https://innovatecybersecuritysummit.com/
Name of Event: ISACA Virtual Conference (Americas)
Description: “Experience world-class content in digital trust, audit, governance, privacy, security and emerging technologies in each field from the Americas. Gain knowledge to position your organization as a digital trust thought leader. Earn up to 6.5 CPE credits. All from the comfort and convenience of your home or office.”
When: February 21, 2024
Where: Virtual
Link of Event: https://www.isaca.org/training-and-events/conferences
Name of Event: The 28th Annual ARC Industry Leadership Forum
Description: Accelerate Transformation in the Age of AI, Cybersecurity, and Sustainability
Join us at the 28th Annual ARC Industry Forum to speed up your digitalization, sustainability, and energy transition initiatives with strategies and stories from your peers.
For industrial sectors, it is a time of uncertainty. Market disruption abounds, and change is inevitable. For companies that can make fast, effective decisions, change presents significant opportunity and not just existential risk. Industrial leaders deal with this by leveraging transformational technologies such as generative AI to evolve business models, focusing on competitive and operating excellence, anticipating changes to the workforce and work itself, establishing cyber-resilient operations, and driving energy transition and sustainability into core business strategies.
When: February 4 – 8, 2024
Where: Orlando, FL
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Name of Event: ITEXPO 2024
Description: Come meet with The Right People, choose The Right Technology options for your needs, and always keep an eye on protecting your assets with The Best-in-Class Cybersecurity tools.
Since its launch in 1999, ITEXPO is the one event that brings communications and technology professionals together across the entire eco-system:
Enterprise and SMB telecom and IT professionals
MSP and Channel C-levels and business owners
Service providers/carriers
Industry suppliers and solutions providers
ITEXPO and the collocated events in the #TECHSUPERSHOW provide the forum where technology decisions are made to produce better business outcomes – for tech buyers, resellers, and solutions providers alike.
When: February 13 – 15, 2024
Where: Fort Lauderdale, FL
Link of Event:https://www.itexpo.com/east/solutions-for-enterprise-mid-market-and-smbs.aspx
Name of Event: HIMSS
Description: HIMSS is the primary health information and technology conference. With nearly 45,000 attendees from over 90 countries, this conference is a must for those interested in transforming health around the world through advances in technology. Choose from over 300 sessions and enjoy a vast selection of special programs and networking opportunities.
When: March 11 – 15, 2024
Where: Orlando, Florida
Name of Event: The Official Cybersecurity Summit
Description: The 13th Edition of the New York Cybersecurity Summit connects C-Suite & Senior Executives responsible for protecting their companies’ critical infrastructures with innovative solution providers and renowned information security experts. Admission gives you access to all Interactive Panels, Discussions, Catered Breakfast, Lunch & Cocktail Reception.
When: 12 March 2024
Where: Square Hotel
811 7th Avenue, W 53rd Street New York, NY, 10019
Link of Event: https://cybersecuritysummit.com/register/newyork24-mar/
Name of Event: Apres-Cyber Slopes Summit
Description: The Apres-Cyber Slopes Summit is a unique blend of professional development and leisure, tailored for cybersecurity leaders and innovators. The event features intensive AI training sessions, focused briefings, and unparalleled networking opportunities, all set against the backdrop of the USA’s largest ski resort. This event is tailored to cybersecurity leadership (CISOs, CTOs, CIOs, CEOs) and cybersecurity innovators (Artificial Intelligence (AI), Large Lang Model (LLM) and Cloud Security Architects).
When: March 19-21, 2024
Where: Park City, Utah
Link of Event: https://www.aprescyber.com/
Name of Event: Association of Payment Professionals (Formally known as MAC)
Description: “APP and its Level Up annual conference serve as industry connectors to help educate and navigate on risk, compliance, and payment topics.”
When: March 5-7, 2024
Where: Las Vegas, Nevada
Link of Event: https://www.paymentpros.org/level-up-24
Name of Event: International Conference on Cybersecurity, Cybercrime and Cyberthreats ICCCC
Description: International Conference on Cybersecurity, Cybercrime and Cyberthreats aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results on all aspects of Cybersecurity, Cybercrime and Cyberthreats. It also provides a premier interdisciplinary platform for researchers, practitioners and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, and concerns as well as practical challenges encountered and solutions adopted in the fields of Cybersecurity, Cybercrime and Cyberthreats.
When: March 11 – 12, 2024
Where: Miami, FL
Name of Event: Critical Infrastructure Protection & Resilience North America
Description: There are 16 critical infrastructure sectors whose assets, systems, and networks, whether physical or virtual, are considered so vital to the United States that their incapacitation or destruction would have a debilitating effect on security, national economic security, national public health or safety.
When: March 12, 2024
Where: Lake Charles, LA
Link of Event: https://ciprna-expo.com/
Name of Event: Sunshine Cyber Con
Description: It’s back! Cyber Florida is pleased to announce the return of our popular annual conference, now called the Sunshine Cyber Conference! Save the date for 27-28 March 2024 at the newly renovated Tampa Convention Center!
When: March 27 – 28, 2024
Where: Tampa, FL
Link of Event: https://cyberflorida.org/sunshine/
Name of Event: WiCyS
Description: WiCyS is a technical conference designed for women with the aim to “recruit, retain and advance women in cybersecurity.” This event welcomes those with academic and industry backgrounds. Students can also attend this event.
When: April 11 – 13, 2024
Where: Nashville, Tennessee
Link of Event: https://www.wicys.org/events/wicys-2024/
Name of Event: Knowledge (ServiceNow Annual Event)
Description: From keynotes from industry legends, to participating in impactful breakout sessions, IT pros and teams get inspired by innovative workshops every year at ServiceNow’s annual event.. This year the focus will be on how businesses are putting AI to work for people in surprising, creative, and incredibly impactful ways.
When: May 7-9 2024
Where: Las Vegas, Nevada
Link to Event: https://knowledge.servicenow.com/flow/servicenow/k24/event/page/home
Event Type: In-person Event
Name of Event: RSA Conference 2024
Description: RSA is returning to San Francisco for 2024 and will take place on May 6 – 9. RSA conference is one of the premier information security shows in the industry. Their mission is to “connect you to the most knowledgeable people and cutting-edge content that will empower you to stay ahead of cyberthreats and advance your career. The conversations and debates are…designed for open and honest dialog that often provide different/unique and sometimes opposing views in order to get to the heart of the problem and ultimately a creative/unbiased solution.”
When: May 6 – 9, 2024
Where: San Francisco, CA
Link of Event: https://www.rsaconference.com/usa
Name of Event: HACKMIAMI
Description: HACKMIAMI offers presentations for beginner to advanced hackers. Topics include all things tech such as crimeware, cryptocurrency, DDoS, digital currency, digital self-defense, encryption, forensics, hacker culture, HAM radio, identify theft, malware, mobile technologies, open source software, penetration testing, programming, robotics, security culture, software cracking, software/tool releases and much more.
When: May 18, 2024 (training sessions May 15 – 17, 2024)
Where: Sunny Isles Beach, FL
Link of Event: https://hackmiami.com/index.html
Name of Event: 45th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
Description: The IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, which has been bringing together scholars and practitioners in the field since 1980, is the premier forum for presenting advances in computer security and electronic privacy. The 2024 Symposium will mark the 45th annual meeting of this flagship conference.
When: May 20-23, 2024
Where: San Francisco
Link of Event: https://strobes.co/blog/top-10-must-attend-cybersecurity-conferences-in-2024/#45th-IEEE-Symposium-on-Security-and-Privacy
Name of Event: BSides
Description: BSides is a community-driven security event series that takes place in over 60 countries. Popular for its schedule of live talks and demos, and its collaborative atmosphere, BSides events are particularly popular with survey respondents in Europe – 30% said they’d attended a BSides event in the past 2 years.
When: May 4 to 5, 2024
Where: San Francisco, CA
Link of Event: https://bsidessf.org/
Name of Event: Splunk .conf24
Description: Of course, as a leader in security, we’d be remiss not to include our own .conf! We are proud that Splunk helps keep organizations secure and resilient with our unified security and observability platform. Our .conf is an extension of our passion for our customers and our offerings.
.conf24 is the latest iteration of Splunk’s annual conference. The 2023 .conf edition saw over 6,000 Splunk enthusiasts and tons of learning hours, including plenty of replays still available online. Sign up now to get the latest updates on .conf24.
When: June 10-13, 2024
Where: Las Vegas, NV
Link of Event: https://conf.splunk.com/
Name of Event: AWS re:Inforce
Description: Hear customers share their favorite experiences from re:Inforce 2023, our annual learning conference focused on cloud security.
Registration for 2024 will be opening soon-sign up no0w so you don’t miss any updates or announcements.
When: 10-12 June, 2024
Where: Philadelphia, PA
Link of Event: https://reinforce.awsevents.com/
Name of Event: Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit
Description: The Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit addresses substantial obstacles encountered by security and risk leaders in their efforts to adapt to and lead change. This event “is the premiere conference for cyber executives.”
When: June 3 – 5, 2024
Where: National Harbor, Maryland
Link of Event: https://www.gartner.com/en/conferences/na/security-risk-management-us
Name of Event: Techno Security & Digital Forensics Conference
Description: “The Techno Security & Digital Forensics Conference brand has grown into one of the most important resources for corporate network security professionals, federal, state and local law enforcement digital forensic specialists, and cybersecurity industry leaders from around the world. The purpose is to raise international awareness of developments, teaching, training, responsibilities, and ethics in the field of IT security and digital forensics.”
When: June 4-6, 2024
Where: Wilmington, North Carolina
Link of Event: https://www.technosecurity.us/
Name of Event: Cyber Security & Cloud Congress
Description: Cyber Security & Cloud Expo is the leading event for Zero Trust, Threat Detection & Response, Training, Talent & Culture, Identity & Access Management, Application Security, and Data Security.
When: June 5 – 6, 2024
Where: Santa Clara, CA
Link of Event: https://www.cybersecuritycloudexpo.com/northamerica/
Name of Event: Black Hat
Description: If you are looking for a highly technical security conference and cutting edge research, Black Hat is a must-attend event. With briefings and trainings held annually in the United States, Europe and Asia, it is regarded as one of the best security conferences in the world. “For more than 16 years, Black Hat has provided attendees with the very latest in information security research, development, and trends in a strictly vendor-neutral environment.” Black Hat is for all career levels. Join the Black Hat conference to collaborate with academia, world-class researchers, and leaders in the public and private sectors. Black Hat conferences take place all over the world. Visit their website to see what other locations will host Black Hat conferences.
When: August 3 – 8, 2024
Where: Las Vegas Nevada
Link of Event: https://www.blackhat.com/upcoming.html#usa
Name of Event: The Diana Initiative
Description: The Diana Initiative conference focuses on helping those who are underrepresented in information security and is “committed to helping all underrepresented genders, sexualities, races and cultures in Information Security…[and] will foster empowerment, encourage initiative and create networking opportunities.”
When: August 5, 2024
Where: Las Vegas, Nevada
Link of Event: https://www.dianainitiative.org/
Name of Event: DEF CON 31
Description: What originally started as a party for a specific group of hackers on the “Net” in 1993 has turned into the biggest regular hackathon in the world. With an average of 27-28 thousand attendees, the DEF CON remains a singular experience in the cybersecurity community. The organization created a Safe Mode with Networking website, which is a centralized location for virtual conference content.
When: August 8 – 11, 2024
Where: Las Vegas, Nevada
Link of Event: https://defcon.org/
Name of Event: International Conference on Information Protection and Cybersecurity ICIPC
Description: International Conference on Information Protection and Cybersecurity aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results on all aspects of Information Protection and Cybersecurity. It also provides a premier interdisciplinary platform for researchers, practitioners and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, and concerns as well as practical challenges encountered and solutions adopted in the fields of Information Protection and Cybersecurity.
When: August 9 – 10, 2024
Where: New York, NY
Link of Event: https://waset.org/information-protection-and-cybersecurity-conference-in-august-2024-in-new-york
Name of Event: 2024 PCI North America Community Meeting
Description: The three-day PCI SSC 2021 Global Community Forum “will include all the things you expect from PCI SSC events – important Council updates, regional insights, opportunities for feedback, networking, and fun engagement activities.”
This event is for Qualified Security Assessors (QSAs), Approved Scanning Vendors (ASVs), PTS Approved Labs (PTS), PCI Professionals (PCIPs), Payment Application QSAs (PA QSAs), Internal Security Assessors (ISAs), Qualified Integrators and Resellers (QIRs), Point to Point Encryption Assessors (P2PEs), Card Production Security Assessors (CPSAs), Qualified PIN Assessors (QPAs) and Software Security Framework Assessors (SSAs).
When: September 10 – 12, 2024
Where: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Link of Event: https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/event/2024-pci-ssc-north-america-community-meeting/
Name of Event: InfoSec
Description: InfoSec is a leading event series for the information security community, taking place annually in the US and Europe. Attendees can expect a wealth of learning and networking opportunities, as well as expert-led sessions and workshops.
When: September 23 to 25, 2024
Where: Lake Buena Vista
Link of Event: https://www.infosecworldusa.com/
Name of Event: AWS re:Invent
Description: AWS re:Invent is a five-day learning conference for the global cloud computing community. The in-person event features keynote announcements, training and certification opportunities, and technical sessions.
When: November 27 to December 1, 2023
Where: Las Vegas,
Link of Event: https://reinvent.awsevents.com/
Name of Event: Saintcon
Description: Put on by the Utah chapter of the Security Advisory and Incident Network Team (“UtahSAINT”), this conference has been held for over 20 years throughout the State of Utah. The organization aims to be, “fun, engaging, and instructional.” SAINTCON is a friendly show for security and IT professionals, and also welcomes anyone interested in “computer security, hacking, and security research.”
When: TBA (Usually in October)
Where: Utah
Link of Event: https://saintcon.org/
Seceon will be attending, speaking, and sponsoring several of these events in 2024. Keep up with our schedule on our upcoming events page.
