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El Paso, TX cybersecurity events & groups

El Paso's most regular security gatherings are student-run: the Miners Cybersecurity Club and the WiCyS student chapter at UTEP posted workshops nearly every week of the fall 2026 semester, and their calendars describe the sessions as open to anyone. InfraGard El Paso Members Alliance runs ResponseCon, a two-day conference on November 5 and 6, 2026 at El Paso Water TecH2O. The older community groups, the West Texas INFOSEC Society and the ISC2 El Paso Chapter, show no public events since 2020.

Verified Oct 22, 2026 · Covers October 2026 through April 2027 · Times are Mountain Time

El Paso metro: El Paso, Horizon City, Socorro, Canutillo, Fort Bliss, Santa Teresa NM, Sunland Park NM

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  1. Miners Cybersecurity Club (UTEP): The most active security group in the city, with hands-on workshops and free Security+ prep sessions during the semester.
  2. WiCyS UTEP Student Chapter (Women in CyberSecurity): Career and technical workshops at UTEP; its conference info sessions have been open to anyone.
  3. ResponseCon 2026: The city's own security conference, run by the local InfraGard chapter; the Eventbrite listing shows $50 for both days.

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Datebook

November 2026

ResponseCon 2026

Thu, Nov 5 to Fri, Nov 6, 2026 · Listed as 7:30 a.m. on November 5 to 5:00 p.m. on November 6

El Paso Water TecH2O, 10751 Montana Ave., El Paso

Two-day in-person conference on cyber and physical security run by InfraGard El Paso Members Alliance. The chapter's Eventbrite listing shows $50 for both days with breakfast and lunch, no refunds, free parking, and says PayPal payments made on the chapter's site are checked against a paid list at the door. The chapter's own events page no longer showed the dates on October 22, 2026. No cancellation, postponement or move was found.

ConfirmedConferencePaid

eventbrite.com/e/infragard-el-paso-responsecon2… [S1] [S2]

SegurAWS Americas: secure generative AI apps with Amazon Bedrock Guardrails

Thu, Nov 19, 2026 · 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Mountain Time

Online

Virtual, Spanish-language hands-on lab on guardrails for generative AI apps, presented by five AWS user groups including Cloud Del Norte; it is an AWS-focused session, not a general security meeting. The Meetup pages state no fee or other access terms. A second Meetup listing for the same session shows 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Mountain Time. No cancellation or postponement was found.

ConfirmedWorkshopFree

meetup.com/clouddelnorte/events/316671379 [S3] [S4]

Groups & associations

Inclusion and career communities

WiCyS UTEP Student Chapter (Women in CyberSecurity)

University of Texas at El Paso, Chemistry and Computer Science Building (CCSB) 1.0410 · In the city

Workshops and socials during the semester, usually Thursdays at 3:00 p.m. and often with the Miners Cybersecurity Club; each posted on the chapter blog and MineTracker

Student chapter of Women in CyberSecurity, not a regional WiCyS affiliate. Fall 2026 events included a first general meeting with the Miners Cybersecurity Club on September 3, a resume workshop with Lockheed Martin on September 15, an Intro to CTFs workshop on October 1, a cross-chapter online CTF on October 3 and 4, and an Encrypt Your Memories workshop on October 8, 2026. The chapter's posts for these sessions say eligibility is open to anyone who wants to attend.

Free

wicys.cs.utep.edu [S5] [S6]

Public-private and government

InfraGard El Paso Members Alliance

El Paso · In the city

Annual ResponseCon conference and occasional Mini Academy training sessions; no regular meeting schedule published

FBI-affiliated public-private partnership for people working in critical infrastructure sectors; membership requires an application through InfraGard National. The chapter also serves Las Cruces. Its site described ResponseCon 2025 on October 9 and 10, 2025 and Mini Academies in 2025; no post-event recap was found, so last_activity rests on the announced dates. The chapter's own events page listed no dated event on October 22, 2026; ResponseCon 2026 is on its Eventbrite page.

Quiet: last activity Oct 2025Vetting required

infragardelpaso.org [S2] [S7] [S8]

Education and student groups

Miners Cybersecurity Club (UTEP)

University of Texas at El Paso, Chemistry and Computer Science Building (CCSB), rooms 1.0410 and 1.0510 · In the city

Workshops and meetings most weeks during the fall and spring semesters, each posted on MineTracker; fall 2026 had free Security+ prep sessions on Tuesdays at 12:00 p.m. and general meetings or workshops on Wednesdays at 3:00 p.m.

Student club at UTEP, an NSA/DHS Center of Academic Excellence school. Its MineTracker listings are public and say meetings are open to any major with no experience required; sessions are on campus. Fall 2026 sessions included a social engineering talk on September 16, a SOC in a Box workshop on October 7 and general meetings on October 14 and 21, 2026. The club co-hosted the computer science department's spring 2026 CTF at Texas Western Hall with DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory and CyberPatriot. Many events are run jointly with the WiCyS UTEP chapter.

Free

minetracker.utep.edu/organization/cybersecurity… [S9] [S10]

Adjacent communities

Cloud Del Norte (AWS User Group El Paso)

Mostly online; in-person socials in downtown El Paso (June 2026 at Broken Rules Brewing, 1301 Texas Ave.) · In the city

Irregular online workshops and occasional in-person socials, each posted on Meetup

Adjacent: a general Amazon Web Services and AI user group, not security-focused, though it hosts an occasional security session. Most 2026 events were online; the last in-person event was a networking night on June 3, 2026, and the most recent online session was on October 6, 2026.

Free

meetup.com/clouddelnorte [S11]

Directory checklist

4 of 19 national directories list a local chapter
DirectoryResult
2600 MeetingsNo chapter found
CISA Regional OfficesNearest: CISA Region 6; no public El Paso events posted
Cloud Security AllianceNearest: Cloud Security Alliance Arizona Chapter
Cyversity (formerly ICMCP) ChaptersNo chapter found
DEF CON GroupsNearest: DC505 (DEF CON Group Albuquerque); no DEF CON group was found for El Paso
HTCIANo chapter found
IAPP KnowledgeNetNearest: IAPP KnowledgeNet Albuquerque
InfraGard Members AlliancesLocal chapter: InfraGard El Paso Members Alliance
ISACANearest: ISACA New Mexico Chapter (Albuquerque)
ISC2Local chapter: ISC2 El Paso Chapter
ISSANearest: ISSA Phoenix Chapter
NSA National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity (NCAE-C)Local chapter: Miners Cybersecurity Club (UTEP)
OWASPNearest: OWASP Phoenix (OWASP Albuquerque is closer but dormant)
SANS InstituteNo chapter found
SecureWorldNearest: SecureWorld Phoenix
Security BSidesNearest: BSides Albuquerque
TOOOL (The Open Organisation Of Lockpickers)No chapter found
WiCyS (Women in CyberSecurity) Professional AffiliatesLocal chapter: WiCyS UTEP Student Chapter (Women in CyberSecurity)
Women's Society of Cyberjutsu (WSC) ChaptersNo chapter found

Checked Oct 22, 2026

Dormant groups

3 groups with no public activity for 18 months or more

Field notes

Sources

Numbered references for the listings on this page.

  1. S1https://www.eventbrite.com/e/infragard-el-paso-responsecon26-tickets-2001890528460
  2. S2https://www.infragardelpaso.org/
  3. S3https://www.meetup.com/clouddelnorte/events/316671379/
  4. S4https://www.meetup.com/clouddelnorte/events/316780248/
  5. S5https://wicys.cs.utep.edu/blog.html
  6. S6https://minetracker.utep.edu/organization/wicys
  7. S7https://www.eventbrite.com/o/infragard-el-paso-117593002011
  8. S8https://www.infragardnational.org/about-us/infragard-chapters/
  9. S9https://minetracker.utep.edu/organization/cybersecurityclub
  10. S10https://www.utep.edu/cs/news/news-2026/cybersecurityctf/cybersecurityctf.html
  11. S11https://www.meetup.com/clouddelnorte/
  12. S12https://sites.google.com/view/bordercybersummit
  13. S13https://isc2elpaso-chapter.org/events
  14. S14https://wtxinfosec.org/
  15. S15https://wtxinfosec.org/915cybertalks