Registration Now Open for Augusta Cyber Week 2025!

Registration is now open for Augusta Cyber Week in beautiful Augusta GA from October 20, 2025 through October 25, 2025! This includes:

• 4-day Security Onion training
• Security Onion Conference (SOCAugusta)
• BSidesAugusta

These are separate events, but if you sign up for the 4-day training class, then you get a FREE non-transferable ticket to both Security Onion Conference and BSidesAugusta!

Even if you can't make the training class, you won't want to miss Security Onion Conference!

4-day Security Onion training:
https://bsidesaugusta.org/training/#so

Security Onion Conference:
https://securityonion.com/conference

BSidesAugusta:
https://bsidesaugusta.org/

Hope to see you there!

Security Onion Conference 2025 Save the Date and CFP

This year's Security Onion Conference is currently scheduled to be held in person in Augusta, GA on Friday, October 24, 2025. Registration will open August 7.

CFP

Want to speak at Security Onion Conference? We want to hear from you!

How are you...

...using Security Onion to find evil?

...handling lots of traffic and logs using Security Onion?

...integrating Security Onion with other technologies?

...automating common tasks with your own scripts?

...using Security Onion in a unique way?

Each talk should be 45 minutes, including time for questions. Submit your talk here:
https://securityonion.net/cfp

Schedule

May 19 - CFP open

July 14 - CFP closes

August 7 - Speakers selected and notified

August 7 - Registration opens at Noon Eastern Time

October 20 through October 23 - Security Onion 4-day training in Augusta

October 24 - Security Onion Conference

October 25 - BSidesAugusta

Previous Conferences

Want to see talks from previous Security Onion Conferences?

https://securityonion.net/conf

Security Onion Conference cancelled due to Hurricane Helene damage

This is an update to yesterday's announcement:

https://blog.securityonion.net/2024/09/security-onion-training-class-starting.html

Due to the devastation by Hurricane Helene in Augusta GA, we have no choice but to cancel ALL Augusta Cyber Week activities including:

• 4-day Security Onion training class that was scheduled for Monday September 30
• Security Onion Conference that was scheduled for Friday October 4
• BSidesAugusta that was scheduled for Saturday October 5
• all other related activities this week

It is unclear at this time if we will reschedule these events for a later date. We hope to provide more information soon.

Security Onion Conference 2024 Save the Date and CFP

Our 11th annual Security Onion Conference is currently scheduled to be held in person in Augusta, GA on Friday, October 4, 2024. Registration will open July 18.

CFP

Want to speak at Security Onion Conference? We want to hear from you!

How are you...

...using Security Onion to find evil?

...handling lots of traffic using Security Onion?

...integrating Security Onion with other technologies?

...automating common tasks with your own scripts?

...using Security Onion in a unique way?

Each talk should be 45 minutes, including time for questions. Submit your talk here:
https://securityonion.net/cfp

Schedule

April 29 - CFP open

June 24 - CFP closes

July 18 - Speakers selected and notified

July 18 - Registration opens at Noon Eastern Time

September 30 through October 3 - Security Onion 4-day training in Augusta

October 4 - Security Onion Conference

October 5 - BSidesAugusta

Previous Conferences

Want to see talks from previous Security Onion Conferences?

https://securityonion.net/conf

Security Onion Conference 2023 Save the Date and CFP

Our 10th annual Security Onion Conference is currently scheduled to be held in person in Augusta, GA on Friday, October 6, 2023. Our keynote speaker will be Dave Kennedy! Registration will open July 20.

CFP

Want to speak at Security Onion Conference? We want to hear from you!

How are you...

...using Security Onion to find evil?

...handling lots of traffic using Security Onion?

...consuming host telemetry with Security Onion?

...integrating Security Onion with other technologies?

...automating common tasks with your own scripts?

...using Security Onion in a unique way?

Each talk should be 45 minutes, including time for questions. Submit your talk here:
https://securityonion.net/cfp

Schedule

May 1 - CFP open

June 26 - CFP closes

July 20 - Speakers selected and notified

July 20 - Registration opens at Noon Eastern Time

October 2 through 5 - Security Onion 4-day training in Augusta

October 6 - Security Onion Conference

October 7 - BSidesAugusta

Previous Conferences

Want to see talks from previous Security Onion Conferences?

https://securityonion.net/conf

Save the Date for 10th Annual Security Onion Conference 2023 with Dave Kennedy as Keynote Speaker

Our 10th annual Security Onion Conference is currently scheduled to be held in person in beautiful Augusta, GA on Friday, October 6, 2023 (please mark your calendar!). Our keynote speaker will be Dave Kennedy!

If you use, or are considering using, Security Onion then you should attend Security Onion Conference! Find out what's new with Security Onion, learn best practices and exchange ideas with other users. Even if you're not a Security Onion user, you should consider attending if you're generally interested in things like intrusion detection, network security monitoring, enterprise security monitoring, log management, hunting, and blue teaming.

Registration and CFP will open in the coming months, so stay tuned for further details. In the meantime, check out the recordings from previous Security Onion Conferences!

https://securityonion.net/conf

Security Onion Conference 2022 Save the Date and CFP

This year's Security Onion Conference is currently scheduled to be held in person in Augusta, GA on Friday, September 30, 2022 (please mark your calendar!). Registration will open August 1.

CFP

Want to speak at Security Onion Conference? We want to hear from you!

How are you...

...using Security Onion to find evil?

...handling lots of traffic using Security Onion?

...consuming host telemetry with Security Onion?

...integrating Security Onion with other technologies?

...automating common tasks with your own scripts?

...using Security Onion in a unique way?

Each talk should be 30 minutes with an additional 10 minutes for questions.

Submit your talk here!

https://securityonion.net/cfp

Schedule

May 3 - CFP open

June 20 - CFP closes

July 12 - Speakers selected and notified

July 14 - Registration opens

September 26 - September 29 - Security Onion 4-day training in Augusta

September 30 - Security Onion Conference

October 1 - BSidesAugusta

Previous Conferences

Want to see talks from previous Security Onion Conferences?

https://securityonion.net/conf