Indiana

Fort Wayne, IN cybersecurity events & groups

Name: BSides Fort Wayne and APIsec: Hacking APIs and the Agentic Attack Surface
Start: 2026-11-11
End: 2026-11-11
Location: Brotherhood Mutual Event Center (door 9), 6400 Brotherhood Way, Fort Wayne

Fort Wayne's security community centers on BSides Fort Wayne, a volunteer-run conference held each June at Purdue Fort Wayne that also hosts occasional free lunch talks, including one on November 11, 2026. The Northeast Indiana ISSA chapter holds lunch meetings that are open to non-members, and WiCyS Northern Indiana and InfraGard Indiana also run events in the city. Indiana Tech's Cyber Warriors, a long-running collegiate competition team, compete during the academic year.

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

Fort Wayne metro: Fort Wayne, New Haven, Huntertown, Auburn, Huntington

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BSides Fort Wayne and APIsec: Hacking APIs and the Agentic Attack Surface: Free lunch talk on API and agentic AI attack surfaces from the city's community conference organizers.
Northeast Indiana ISSA: Lunch meetings open to everyone who registers; ISSA membership is optional.
WiCyS Northern Indiana Affiliate: Free local affiliate for women in cybersecurity, active around BSides Fort Wayne.

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Datebook

November 2026

InfraGard Indiana 2026 Annual Event

Mon, Nov 9, 2026 · 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

GuidePoint Security, 8701 E. 116th St., Fishers, IN · Regional

Statewide annual meeting with the FBI coordinator and FBI cyber team; 3 CPEs. Fishers is about two hours from Fort Wayne. The chapter page gives no fee and Eventbrite shows no price in its text, so free access is taken from the ticket listing and should be checked at registration. The chapter page gives 8701 E. 116th St. and Eventbrite gives 8710; check the ticket before you travel.

ConfirmedChapter meetingFree

secureindiana.org/events-1/2026-iima-annual-eve… [S1] [S2]

BSides Fort Wayne and APIsec: Hacking APIs and the Agentic Attack Surface

Wed, Nov 11, 2026 · 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. (doors 10:30 a.m.)

Brotherhood Mutual Event Center (door 9), 6400 Brotherhood Way, Fort Wayne

Talk by Corey Ball, Head of Offensive Security at APIsec. The Eventbrite page states a free event with a free catered lunch, thanks to event sponsors; attendance is capped at the first 100 registrants.

ConfirmedMeetupFree

eventbrite.com/e/bsides-fort-wayne-apisec-hacki… [S3] [S4]

WMU 5th Annual Cybersecurity Summit

Thu, Nov 12, 2026 · 8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. (Eastern)

Western Michigan University Student Center, Kalamazoo, MI · Regional

Run by WMU Information Technology and the Cybersecurity Studies Center, for students, educators, IT staff and the public. Registration goes through a university online store; neither the summit page nor the store page states a price, so the paid label is an assumption to check there.

ConfirmedSummitPaid

wmich.edu/it/cybersecurity-summit [S5]

May 2027

BSidesDayton 2027

Sat, May 15, 2027 · 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Fairborn City Church, Fairborn, OH (Dayton area) · Regional

Community conference about two hours from Fort Wayne. Tickets are sold in advance through the organizer site; the 2027 pages state no price (the 2026 Eventbrite page mentioned a $10 student discount code).

ConfirmedConferencePaid

bsidesdayton.com [S6]

On the radar

Announced without a date, or expected from past editions. Not confirmed.

BSides Fort Wayne 2027

Usually held on a Saturday in early June (June 7, 2025; June 6, 2026); 2027 date not yet announced

Fort Wayne

ExpectedConferencePaid

bsidesfortwayne.org [S3] [S7]

CERIAS Annual Cybersecurity Symposium

Usually held in early April (April 7 and 8 in 2026); 2027 dates not yet announced

Purdue Memorial Union, West Lafayette, IN · Regional

ExpectedConferencePaid

cerias.purdue.edu/site/symposium [S8]

Groups & associations

Professional associations

Northeast Indiana ISSA

Fort Wayne; venues vary (Parkview Field on February 6, 2026) · In the city

Lunch meetings, usually 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.; the chapter's LinkedIn page says monthly, but no fixed schedule is published

The chapter says its meetings are open to everyone with registration; no fee is stated on its pages or on the Eventbrite page, and ISSA membership is optional. The most recent meeting found was a Zero Trust talk at Parkview Field on February 6, 2026, confirmed by the chapter's LinkedIn thank-you post. The chapter's own events page lists nothing after 2025.

Quiet: last activity Feb 2026Free

nein-issa.org [S9] [S10] [S11]

Inclusion and career communities

WiCyS Northern Indiana Affiliate

Fort Wayne and northern Indiana; founded at Indiana Tech in March 2025 · In the city

Irregular events; the affiliate hosted a presence at BSides Fort Wayne on June 6, 2026

No fee or membership terms are stated on the WiCyS affiliate page, the BSides event page or the Eventbrite kickoff page, so the free label is not confirmed; the affiliate's own site no longer loads. The June 6, 2026 date is the affiliate's presence at BSides Fort Wayne, taken from the WiCyS event page, not a meeting of its own.

Free

wicys.org/wicys-northern-indiana [S12] [S13] [S14]

Public-private and government

InfraGard Indiana Members Alliance

Statewide (based in the Indianapolis area); holds some events in Fort Wayne · In the city

Irregular events around Indiana; no regular Fort Wayne meeting

Membership requires FBI vetting, but some events are open to the public. The last event confirmed as held was a November 6, 2025 talk in Fishers. The chapter's 2026 Cybersecurity Joint Meeting was scheduled in Fort Wayne on October 8, 2026 and its Eventbrite page now reads ended, but no recap or attendance report was found, so it is not counted as activity. The chapter lists its annual meeting in Fishers on November 9, 2026.

Quiet: last activity Nov 2025Vetting required

secureindiana.org [S15] [S16]

Education and student groups

Indiana Tech Cyber Warriors

Indiana Institute of Technology, 1600 E. Washington Blvd., Fort Wayne · In the city

Competition team; competes in CCDC, CPTC, National Cyber League and CTF events during the academic year

Indiana Tech is an NSA/DHS Center of Academic Excellence. The team's LinkedIn page describes the Midwest regional CCDC at Purdue University Northwest on March 20 and 21 without printing the year; 2026 is inferred from neighboring posts about the 2026 Innovation Challenge. No fall 2026 activity was found.

Quiet: last activity Mar 2026Students only

academics.indianatech.edu/cybersecurity-center/… [S17] [S18]

Conference series

BSides Fort Wayne

Fort Wayne; the 2026 conference was at Purdue Fort Wayne's Walb Student Union · In the city

Annual one-day conference on a Saturday in early June, plus occasional free talks

Volunteer-run. The June conference is ticketed (the 2026 early-registration price was $30 per the Eventbrite page); the organizers point to LinkedIn and Discord for the latest news. The organizer site announces a free fall talk on November 11, 2026.

Paid

bsidesfortwayne.org [S3] [S19]

Directory checklist

5 of 19 national directories list a local chapter

Directory	Result
2600 Meetings	Nearest: South Bend 2600 (first Fridays, Cloud Walking Cafe)
CISA Regional Offices	Nearest: CISA Region 5 (Chicago); no public Fort Wayne events posted
Cloud Security Alliance	Nearest: CSA Ohio River Valley Chapter (a CSA Fort Wayne chapter existed but its website no longer loads and it is not in CSA's chapter list)
Cyversity (formerly ICMCP) Chapters	No chapter found
DEF CON Groups	Nearest: DC574 (South Bend)
HTCIA	Nearest: HTCIA Ohio Chapter
IAPP KnowledgeNet	Nearest: IAPP KnowledgeNet Indianapolis
InfraGard Members Alliances	Local chapter: InfraGard Indiana Members Alliance
ISACA	Nearest: ISACA Northwest Ohio Chapter (Toledo); ISACA Central Indiana (Indianapolis) is about as far
ISC2	Nearest: ISC2 Greater Detroit Chapter (Indiana has no ISC2 chapter)
ISSA	Local chapter: Northeast Indiana ISSA
NSA National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity (NCAE-C)	Local chapter: Indiana Tech Cyber Warriors
OWASP	Nearest: OWASP Indianapolis
SANS Institute	Nearest: SANS Chicago 2027
SecureWorld	Nearest: SecureWorld Detroit
Security BSides	Local chapter: BSides Fort Wayne
TOOOL (The Open Organisation Of Lockpickers)	Nearest: TOOOL Chicago (CHI)
WiCyS (Women in CyberSecurity) Professional Affiliates	Local chapter: WiCyS Northern Indiana Affiliate
Women's Society of Cyberjutsu (WSC) Chapters	No chapter found

Checked Oct 22, 2026

Field notes

Northeast Indiana ISSA's two sites, nein-issa.org and nein-issa.com, both load but show no meeting after 2025. Its Eventbrite and LinkedIn pages carry the latest meeting notices.
The 2600 meeting at Glenbrook Mall appears only on an old 2600 list from 1999. The current 2600 list has no Fort Wayne meeting; the nearest is in South Bend.
The November 11, 2026 BSides Fort Wayne talk is capped at the first 100 registrants.
WiCyS Northern Indiana's own website no longer resolves as of October 22, 2026. Use the WiCyS affiliate page or its LinkedIn page instead.
InfraGard Indiana membership requires FBI vetting. Its October 8, 2026 joint meeting in Fort Wayne was listed as free and open on Eventbrite, but no report of the meeting was found.

Sources

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