UPCOMING EVENTS AND NEWS
UPCOMING EVENTS AND NEWS
Black Hat ASIA
21-24 April 2026
Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
Cygence is continuing its support for global Black Hat events and is a return sponsor for Black Hat Asia in 2026. Take the opportunity to meet with some of our team in Singapore for this year’s event which returns to the iconic Marina Bay Sands hotel in Singapore.
VULNCON
13-16 April 2026
Arizona, USA
Cygence will be appearing at CVE | FIRST VulnCon 2026 & Annual CNA Summit in Scottsdale Arizona.
CYGENCE IS A CNA
03 March 2026
Melbourne, Australia
Cygence qualifies as a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA) under the CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) Program
BSides Melbourne
16-17 may 2026
Melbourne, Australia
As part of our ongoing commitment and contribution to the global vulnerability community, the Cygence Team is hosting a Vulnerability Village at BSides Melbourne in 2026. This is one not to be missed, over the 2-day event we will be hosting timed wargaming sessions focused on all things detection, identification and reporting of vulnerabilities. It’s a Bug Hunt!
past news and Events 2025
OT Cyber Security Forum
27 FEBRUARY
Adelaide, Australia
Cygence appeared as a panelist at the Defending Mission-critical Operational Technologies forum hosted by Logi-tech and Parabellum Solutions.
Event details can be found here:
Black Hat Asia 2025
21-24 April
Singapore
Cygence is continuing its support for Black Hat from 2024 and is a proud sponsor of Black Hat Asia 2025. Our team travelled to Singapore for the event which was held at the iconic Marina Bay Sands hotel.
The 3rd Australian Space Cyber Forum
23-24 June
Adelaide, Australia
Cygence was invited to appear on an expert panel “Internet of Things (IoT) – Network of Things (NoT) Devices”.
Black Hat USA
02-07 August
Las Vegas, USA
The Cygence Team are returning to Las Vegas, their home away from home. For the second year in a row, Cygence is a sponsor and exhibitor at Black Hat USA 2025.
Melbourne CyberCon 2025
15-17 October
Melbourne, Australia
Cygence presented at Melbourne CyberCon for another year. This year’s presentation drew inspiration from the incomparable Aliens movie franchise “Nuke it from Orbit: what Aliens taught us about risk assessments and adversary emulation”.
CyberCon Canberra 2025
17-19 March
Canberra, Australia
Cygence presented at CyberCon Canberra 2o25. This was a presentation not to be missed. The topic for the presentation was “The Gamers Guide to cyber tabletop exercises: These are not the powerpoints you’re looking for”.
Conference details and presentation abstract can be found here:
RSA Conference 2025
01-04 April
San Francisco, USA
Cygence was a proud sponsor, exhibitor and presenter at RSA 2025. Our Team also debuted another of our in-house designed and developed technical solutions during RSA. Our presentation topic was “It’s Dangerous to go Alone: Take This. A CISOs Guide to Threat Hunt and Risk”.
GISEC Global 2025
06-08 May
Dubai, UAE
Cygence was a proud sponsor and exhibitor at the Australia Pavillion in Dubai held at the Dubai World Trade Centre.
Our Founder’s Story was featured by GISEC Global in the lead up to the conference, read more here: https://gisec.ae/founding-with-fire-the-cygence-story
BSides Adelaide 2025
12-13 May
Adelaide, Australia
For the second year in a row, Cygence is a proud delivery partner of BSides Adelaide. Our Executive Team are integral members of the BSides Adelaide Committee. This year’s event is being hosted at the Hilton Adelaide.
DEFCON ‘33
07-10 August
Las Vegas, USA
The Cygence team hosted a contest for the third year in a row at DEFCON ‘33. Our 3-day contest built on Cyber Defender - the Game exhibited in previous years. Defence of Critical Infrastructure is a focus for our team and we are trying to have some fun doing it at the same time. Did you take on our capable adversary and win???
past news and Events 2024
Australian Defence Magazine
02 February
Adelaide, Australia
Cygence featured in the Australian Defence Magazine.
Asia Pacific Defence Reporter
05 February
Adelaide, Australia
Cygence featured in the Asia Pacific Defence Reporter.
Military Operations Reserach Society (MORS) Wargaming
27 February - 01 March
San Diego, USA
Cygence presented “Wargaming the Information Environment and Integration Operations in the Eastern Pacific” at the MORS Wargaming in the Eastern Pacific Workshop in San Diego.
Locked Shields 2024
April
Adelaide, Australia
Cygence led the multi-national, multi-disciplinary Australian Team for Locked Shields 2024. This was the first time that Australia has ever had a team involved in the main exercise. Cygence’s efforts were featured by Defence SA. Further details can be found at the following link.
BSides Adelaide 2024
17-18 May
Adelaide, Australia
Cygence is a proud delivery partner of the inaugural BSides Adelaide. We are playing an integral role in the establishment of the event and the BSides Adelaide committee.
Global Information Conference Australia (Phoenix Challenge)
11-14 June
Adelaide, Australia
This is the first time this conference is coming to Australia. Cygence hosted a 2-day workshop as part of the conference program “Wargame - Operations in Synthetic Information Environments”.
Black Hat USA 2024
03-08 August
Las Vegas, USA
The Cygence team got back on the road and spent an extended time in the US. Cygence was a very proud sponsor of Black Hat USA 2024.
Our team also presented at Black Hat “Cyber Mad Max: Beyond the Culture Thunderdome”.
DEFCON ‘32
09-11 August
Las Vegas, USA
For a second year in a row, the team from Cygence hosted a contest at DEFCON ‘32. This year, the team extended themselves and hosted a 3-day contest as part of the Con. If you saw a jacked cyber koala then that might have been us. We hope you came along, met the team and played Cyber Defender - the Game - not for the feint hearted!
HR Technology Exposition
24-26 September
Las Vegas, USA
Cygence was a proud first-time sponsor of the HR Technology Conference and Exposition 2024. Hope you got a chance to visit the team whilst they were back in Las Vegas, the city that never sleeps, and nor does our team!
Connections Oz
05-07 November
Virtual
Cygence was invited to present at Connections Oz 2024 - the Connections Wargaming Conference. Cygence presented “Wargaming the Information Environment and Integrated Operations in Support of AUKUS”.
We shared our views on Information Operations, the challenges of Wargaming the Information Environment and much more.
Military Communications and Information Systems (MILCIS)
Canberra, Australia
The Cygence Team debuted their retro Arcade Machine at the Military Communications and Information Systems (MILCIS) Conference at the National Convention Centre, Canberra, alongside their good friends from Redacted Information Security.
We hope you got a chance to meet the team and have an opportunity to play “Cygence the Game” for the first time in Australia since its debut at Black Hat USA in August 2025.
Melbourne CyberCon
26-28 November
Melbourne, Australia
The Cygence Team was a very proud sponsor of the Australian Cyber Conference 2024 (Melbourne CyberCon). The Conference theme was “The Future is Now”.
What’s old is new again, with our team exhibiting our old school/new school arcade machine so that the Melbourne cyber security industry can come along, meet the team and play Cygence - the Game. Can you beat our capable adversary?
CYDEF
02-06 December
Tokyo, Japan
Cygence was invited to present at the CYDEF 2024 conference in Tokyo, Japan. The theme of the conference was “Co-creation amidst Threats”.