Conference Review

Ask experienced European security practitioners which conference they’d attend if they could only pick one, and TROOPERS comes up more often than its modest size would suggest. The 2026 edition runs 22–26 June in Heidelberg, Germany, hosted as ever by ERNW at the Print Media Academy — and for CISOs running European programmes, it’s the … Read more

Update: HITB no longer runs in the Netherlands. The Amsterdam edition wrapped permanently in 2023, and the conference series has consolidated around Bangkok, Phuket, Singapore, and Abu Dhabi (HITB+in:cyber). For European researchers used to making the spring trip to Amsterdam, this is the new reality — and the content remains worth the longer flight for … Read more

Few conferences have the gravitational pull of their host institution the way CyberUK does. As the National Cyber Security Centre’s flagship event, it’s the venue where UK cyber policy gets articulated, debated, and translated into operational guidance — and the 2026 edition, held 21–23 April in Glasgow, marked the NCSC’s tenth anniversary with a deliberately … Read more

For four days each spring, the cybersecurity industry effectively relocates to San Francisco. RSAC 2026 ran 23–26 March at the Moscone Center, marking the conference’s 35th edition and drawing close to 44,000 attendees — a scale that remains unmatched anywhere in the sector. Whatever your view of RSAC, ignoring it isn’t really an option for … Read more

When the UK security community wants a snapshot of where the market is heading, it usually starts at ExCeL in March. Cloud & Cyber Security Expo 2026 starts early on in the year and as such it tends to set the agenda that ripples through the rest of the conference circuit. The Conference at a … Read more