Top Ten Cybersecurity Conferences of 2024

Many people consider cybersecurity a technology problem, something that purchasing and integrating new solutions can solve. In reality, cybersecurity is an information problem. Often, malicious actors know more about an environment’s weaknesses than the people working to defend against attacks. At a tactical level, gaining insight into risks facing your systems, networks, applications, and devices helps you respond to incidents faster, improving cyber resilience. 

At the strategic level, you need insights that come from the cybersecurity community, including your peers. Whether you’re a CISO, security analyst, or IT manager, education and knowledge give you the edge necessary to build purposeful risk mitigation strategies. 

These ten cybersecurity conferences offer opportunities for you to connect with security professionals to learn about the evolving threat landscape and test new security products. 

1. RSA Conference (RSAC)

RSAC is one of the largest industry conferences, bringing in renowned keynote speakers. Over the past 32 years, RSAC has been a leader in educating cybersecurity practitioners and building community. RSAC topics include presentations focused on:

• C-Suite View
• Business Perspectives
• Cloud Security
• DevSecOps and Application Security
• Law and Policy
• Machine Learning

2. AWS re:Inforce

AWS re:Inforce is more than a vendor conference. This annual, immersive, cloud-security learning event helps explore the breadth of the AWS security landscape while helping attendees learn about how to optimize their current solutions. ASW re:Inforce offers:

• In-depth sessions for immersive learning
• Expert-driven insights 
• Access to AWS Partners and technical security experts
• Customer sessions to learn from real-world users

3. Black Hat

Founded in 1997, Black Hat focuses on technical sessions and research. Its annual flagship event takes place in Las Vegas, typically during August, and offers:

• Trainings: interactive, live classes and labs
• Briefings: talks and panels focused on recent cybersecurity research and technical issues
• Business Hall: security technology vendors show their products and services while giving people an opportunity to network

4. DefCon

Typically dovetailing with Black Hat, DefCon began in 1993, priding itself as the oldest continuously running hacker convention. DefCon offers various activities for attendees, including:

• Capture the flag events for cybersecurity in which participants seek out a ‘flag’ in a target environment
• Talks covering the latest trends in cybersecurity
• Contests for practitioners in the field that uplevel common cybersecurity challenges
• Career villages to uncover new career opportunities for practitioners

5. HIMSS Conference

HIMSS is a healthcare-focused organization with over 60 years of service across every continent. The annual HIMSS Conference addresses healthcare’s critical IT topics, connecting CIOs, executives, healthcare providers, health IT professionals, and government officials. The educational programming covers various topics, including:

• Health Equity
• Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• Data governance
• Workforce challenges
• Digital health transformation 
• Interoperability
• Cybersecurity
• Process analysis and design

The specialty pavilions focus on niche issues related to healthcare, including:

• AI
• Cybersecurity
• Government Connections
• International meetups
• Meeting locations and pods
• Patient engagement
• Startup park

6. Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit

As a leading analyst, Gartner has a reputation for helping leaders make smarter decisions about their most important priorities. Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit is their annual cybersecurity conference, covering critical issues like:

• Ways cybersecurity leaders can excel with new threats and concerns each year
• Developments in the application and data security world
• Fostering business resilience through cybersecurity
• Integration of AI into cybersecurity programs
• Real-world challenges and solutions to common cybersecurity issues

The annual conference focuses its content to appeal to:

• Chief information security officers (CISOs)
• Security directors, managers, and leaders
• Risk management
• Security architects and technical professionals 
• Network, application, and data security managers

7. InfoSec World

InfoSec World is often considered the conference that focuses on the “Business of Security.” Produced by the CyberRisk Alliance (CRA), the event gathers security professionals to discuss strategy, tactics, tools, and best practices. A small sampling of the topics includes:

• Third-party risk
• Attack surface management
• Governance, regulation, and compliance
• Identity, authentication, and access management
• Internet of Things (IoT)
• Network security
• Privacy
• Ransomware
• Security audit
• Supply chain security

The event focuses its content to appeal to:

• CISOs, CTOs, COOs, CIOs
• Developers
• IAM Architects / Engineers
• IAM Directors
• Information Security Officers
• IS/IT Directors/Managers
• Product Managers
• Security Architects
• Security Infrastructure Engineers
• Software Security Architects

8. Infosecurity Europe

Infosecurity Europe brings together information security leaders in Europe to share ideas, learn new skills, review solutions, and build relationships. The three-day conference focuses on the industry’s latest developments while offering:

• Vendor hall showcasing new cyber defense technologies and solutions
• Sessions focused on empowering security professionals and strategies for countering threats
• Keynote stage with industry experts
• Workshops, roundtables, and hands-on demonstrations, enabling attendees to gain CPE and CPD credits
• Networking opportunities both in-person and online

9. Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Cybersecurity Conference

As the “original cybersecurity conference for the industrial control systems sector,” ICS Cybersecurity Conference has been working with this vertical since 2002. The three=day conference addresses various cyber threats targeting ICS operators, including how to protect:

• SCADA systems
• Plant control systems
• Engineering workstations
• Substation equipment
• Programmable logic controllers (PLCs)

Attendees typically work in the following industries:

• Defense
• Power generation
• Transmission and distribution
• Water Utilities
• Chemicals
• Oil and gas
• Pipelines
• Transportation
• Data centers
• Medical devices

10. Wearable Injectors and Connected Devices USA

Although a newer conference beginning in 2023, Wearable Injectors and Connected Devices USA is a two-day event that recognizes the growing importance and impact of these devices. The content focuses on:

• Device design and development
• Advances in Connectivity and digital integration of wearable devices
• Potential user-interface enhancements
• Regulatory challenges associated with wearable injectors and connected devices

Meet Asimily at a Conference

The Asimily platform is designed expressly for securing IoT devices. It’s built to monitor traffic to and from IoT sensors and other connected devices in addition to surfacing anomalous behavior that might indicate an attack in progress. As organizations add more IoT devices to their networks, malicious actors evolve their attack methods to exploit the weaknesses inherent in many of these devices. 

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