Top 10 Cybersecurity Conferences 2020

The company owner never misses a few things. Among them are budgeting (especially costs), the search for qualified employees, b2b marketing, innovative ideas. One of the key roles in this list is played by cybersecurity. As soon as a successful attack on the application or company server occurs, all work will instantly stop. In the modern world, 5 seconds of such a “pause” is enough to lose billions.

Therefore, you must be aware of all possible cyber threats, and even more - ways to protect against them. Some choose effective solutions themselves. But even they are sometimes not enough. To close all the holes, company executives and cybersecurity experts attend thematic conferences. The best ones are presented below.

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In the formation of any strategy, risk management will be an integral point. When it comes to business, today risk management is impossible without providing good protection. Moreover, in the past, we wrote about HR conferences.

Cybersecurity conferences are not just events where people get to know each other and build partnerships. People come here for unique knowledge and practices to secure business for the whole year.

RSA Conference 2020

Site: RSA Conference

Place: San Francisco, California, USA

Date: 24-28 February, 2020

Cost: $825-2595 (single ticket), $2345-2445 (for groups), exhibition only - free

One of the largest security conferences in the world for the financial industry and not only. In 2019 alone, more than 40,000 people took part in it. What is worth adding to the numbers? About 700 speakers from around the world, more than 500 sessions, about 30 keynotes, and almost 1000 exhibition places. Each year, the most relevant topics and resources are discussed here, including in areas such as encryption and national security, cyber threats and hacks.

Key topics:

• critical points of security control;
• how to crack attackers;
• ensuring cybersecurity in cloud computing;
• democratization of cybersecurity;
• 10 things about security that every developer needs to know;

Do you expect the best in cybersecurity from this conference? Then know that here you have a chance to hear Rohit Ghai (president of RSA), Steve Grobman (senior vice president and CTO at McAfee), Wendy Natera (chairman of the Cisco Advisory Group), Zulfikar Ramzan (CTO at RSA), Dr. Jessica Barker ( CEO at Cygenta) and many more.

CanSecWest

Site: CanSecWest

Place: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Date: 18-20 March, 2020

Cost: $2300 (till March), $2400 (1-17 March), $2700 (on the day of visit); there are also additional trainings, the prices of which can be found on the website.

One of the very first advanced technical conferences in the world aimed at digital security applications. The event is a three-day conference that offers best practices for new vulnerabilities, attacks and defenses. The information that is distributed at the conference is extremely important in any field, from small business to state security. Therefore, thousands of participants visit it annually.

Key topics:

• security of integrated systems;
• development of cybersecurity software;
• elimination of obfuscation of malware.

This year you will be able to hear presentations by experts such as Richard Johnson (Lead Scientific Advisor at Talos Group at Cisco), Jesse Michael (Researcher at Eclypsium), Mickey Shkatov (Lead Researcher at Eclypsium), and many others.

InfoSec World

Site: InfoSec World

Place: Lake Buena Vista, Orange County, Florida, USA

Date: 30 March – 1 April, 2020

Cost: $50 (exhibition only), $1615-3695 (conference access)

For 25 years, InfoSec World has been one of the major conferences in the world. Combining experienced speakers, security professionals and industry leaders, this event provides information on how to manage today's threats to business development, while simultaneously detecting and preventing problems.

Key topics:

• security strategies;
• awareness, solutions and devices;
• safe design;
• threats and ways to combat them;
• management and leadership;
• confidentiality and risks associated with it.

InfoSec World brings together dozens of speakers. In 2020, Matt Alderman (CEO at Security Weekly), Paul Asadorian (founder and CTO at Security Weekly), Wilson Batista (founder of Jun Cyber), Steve Black (professor at the University of Houston) and many others were on the list.

Hack in the Box Security Conference

Site: Hack in the Box

Place: Singapore; Amsterdam, Holland

Date: 20-24 July, 2020; 20-24 April, 2020

Cost: $800(conference only) - $4299 (full access) – regardless of location.

This conference is held annually in several places around the world, so that everyone can visit it and share experience. So, in 2020 there is an opportunity to get on the HITB in Amsterdam or Singapore. Why is it worth going? The conference is known for its capabilities and the far-sighted views of its participants on computer security issues. Participants can count on the development of new professional relationships during training with leading experts in the field of cybersecurity.

Key topics:

• practical machine learning in information security;
• cloning cards Android HCE;
• attacks on cryptographic libraries of ISO;
• system attacks without a key;
• hunting for vulnerabilities.

The full list of 2020 speakers is not yet available, but several key speakers are known. Among them are John Kalas (Senior Technology Fellow at ACLU), Paul Wicksey (CEO at Farsight Security) and Winn Schwartau (CVO at SAC Labs).

ICS Cyber Security Conference

Site: ICS Cyber Security

Place: London, Great Britain

Date: 26-28 May, 2020

Cost: £499-1499

The Conference on Cybersecurity of Industrial Control Systems is a three-day event that includes multidisciplinary trainings and seminars specially designed for specialists in the operation of control systems and IT development and security. The conference is one of the longest-running events dedicated to industry cybersecurity.

Key topics:

• protection for SCADA systems;
• enterprise management systems;
• safety of substation equipment;
• programmable logic controllers.

Speakers for 20. 20 included: Robert Oates (Head Of Product Cyber Security at Rolls Royce), Andrew Tsonchev (Director of Technology at Darktrace Industrial), Johnny Talsi (Lead Security Consultant at Wartsila) and many others.

International Cryptographic Module Conference

Site: International Cryptographic Module Conference

Place: Hyatt Regency, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

Date: 28 April – 1 May, 2020

Cost: $690-920

The international conference on cryptographic modules is designed to bring together world experts in the field of commercial cryptography. The ICMC20 will pay more attention to the long-awaited FIPS 140-3 standard for cryptographic modules, since it is due to take effect at the end of 2020. Accordingly, most of the seminars and presentations will be devoted to this particular standard.

Key topics:

• end user experience;
• cryptographic data of the enterprise;
• global data validation.

Every year, ICMC organizers attract leaders in the field of cryptography. This time, the list includes Jacob Ansari (Schellman senior manager), Christopher Autry (CEO Iothic), Tim Anderson (Program Manager, WWPS Security at Amazon), Jeff Blank (Endpoint Solutions Technical Director for NSA Cybersecurity) and many others.

InfoSec Southwest

Site: InfoSec SW

Place: Austin, Texas, USA

Date: 1-3 May, 2020

Cost: $160-190

InfoSec Southwest is a conference on information security and hacking, which has been held annually for more than 10 years and brings together leading experts and professionals in the field of hacking disciplines. InfoSec Scope Consists of E-Learning Seminars, Internal Training, and Executive Programs.

Past events covered a wide range of issues, including deep studies of the social and legal consequences of hacking. The list of key topics, as well as speakers for today, is still unknown. Therefore, follow the events and do not miss this conference, as it is often visited by many heads of analytical departments.

ThotCon

Site: ThotCon

Place: Chicago, Illinois, USA

Date: 8-9 May, 2020

Cost: $70-300

ThotCon is an annual conference in Chicago that is held specifically for hackers. This is a small event in which about 1000 people took part last year. However, it provides much more information about future threats than most other conferences. The peculiarity of the conference is that the exact venue is announced to the participants and speakers only a week before.

Key topics:

• use of new methods of hacking and opposition to them;
• how to rationally use inexpensive hacking tools;
• protection against all types of attacks;
• hacking Python;
• change and generation of wireless signals.

Let the venue be secret, but information about some speakers has already been posted on the site. So, this year you can hear the speeches of Renault Dreison (CTO at Tenable), Emmanuel Goldstein (2600 Enterprises, Inc, publisher of The Hacker Quarterly), and Katie Nickles (Principal Intelligence Analyst in Red Canary).

41st IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy

Site: IEEE Security

Place: Hyatt Regency, San Francisco, California, USA

Date: 18-20 May, 2020

Cost: registration is still closed, prices are not available

For 40 years, this symposium has been one of the main forums for the presentation of achievements in the field of computer security and electronic privacy. Year after year, it gathers more and more participants, as each of them is interested in sharing new experiences and practices.

As in the past year, now the organizers for quite some time did not reveal all the cards regarding topics and speakers. But last year it was about technology and consumer protection, deep learning and its role for security, and privacy design.

Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit

Site: Gartner Security Summit

Place: National Harbor, Prince George County, Maryland, USA

Date: 1-4 June, 2020

Cost: $3250 – 3825

Gartner is one of the largest research organizations, which holds various thematic conferences annually. Among them was the Security Summit, which provides the most relevant information on risk management and business continuity. In 2020, it will be possible to obtain valuable information on network capabilities for CISO, fault tolerance, as well as updated data on threats and cybersecurity solutions.

Key topics:

• leadership and strategies;
• trends and opportunities;
• risk and sustainability;
• architecture and operations;
• security market.

This year, speakers included such experts as VP Analyst Gartner, Sam Analue Gartner, and many other Gartner cybersecurity experts.