> riverside, ca · verified oct 8, 2026
California
Riverside's own security activity centers on its colleges: Cyber@UCR at UC Riverside competes in CCDC, CPTC and CTF events, and Riverside City College runs an NSA-recognized cyber defense program with a student club and summer camps for high school students. For working professionals, the ISC2 SoCal Inland Empire chapter holds monthly, mostly virtual meetings, and the nearest larger conferences are in Los Angeles, Long Beach, Pasadena and San Diego.
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Thu, Oct 15, 2026 · 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Fairmont Century Plaza, Los Angeles · Regional
One-day vendor summit run by CyberRisk Alliance, an events company. Standard admission is $250, and registration is limited to working security and IT practitioners and reviewed by the organizer.
ConfirmedSummitPaidVetting requiredVendor-hosted
Thu, Nov 12, 2026 · Starts 8:00 a.m.
Hilton Long Beach, 701 W. Ocean Blvd, Long Beach · Regional
Run by Government Technology, an events and media company. Open to the public sector only; registration is free.
ConfirmedSummitFreeVendor-hosted
Wed, Mar 31, 2027
Hilton Los Angeles Culver City, Culver City · Regional
One-day hybrid vendor conference run by an events company. Pricing was not shown on the event page.
ConfirmedConferencePaidVendor-hosted
Thu, Apr 1 to Sun, Apr 4, 2027
Pasadena Convention Center, Pasadena · Regional
Call for presentations closes: Sun, Nov 1, 2026
Adjacent: a community-run open source conference, not a security conference, but its program includes security sessions. Pasadena is about an hour from Riverside.
ConfirmedConferencePaid
Mon, May 10 to Sat, May 15, 2027
Hilton San Diego Bayfront, San Diego · Regional
Early-bird course discount ends: Wed, Oct 21, 2026
Hotel group rate ends: Wed, Apr 14, 2027
Commercial training run by the SANS Institute, in person and virtual. San Diego is about 1 hour 30 minutes from Riverside by car.
ConfirmedTrainingPaidVendor-hosted
Announced without a date, or expected from past editions. Not confirmed.
Announced by the organizer; date not yet published.
Not announced; recent meetings have been virtual · Metro area
Date TBAChapter meetingFree
Usually held in spring; 2027 date not yet announced
San Diego (2026 venue: San Diego State University, 6075 Aztec Circle Dr) · Regional
ExpectedConferencePaid
Held every October; 2026 date not yet announced
Jack H. Brown Hall, CSUSB, San Bernardino (2025 venue) · Metro area
ExpectedWorkshopFree
Usually held on a Thursday in late October; 2026 date not yet announced
Jessie Turner Health and Fitness Community Center, 15556 Summit Ave, Fontana (2024 venue) · Metro area
ExpectedSummitFreeVendor-hosted
Usually held in late April; 2027 date not yet announced
Online, with teams at their own schools · Metro area
ExpectedCTFStudents only
Usually held in late May; 2027 dates not yet announced
Pasadena · Regional
ExpectedConferencePaid
Inland Empire (Riverside and San Bernardino counties); recent meetings have been virtual · Metro area
Chapter meetings toward the end of each month on a Tuesday at 7:00 p.m., per a July 2026 chapter post; exact dates go to members by email and Slack
Chartered by ISC2 in November 2024; ISC2 membership is not required to join the chapter. The last meeting with a firm date was a virtual session on April 28, 2026. An officer-vote meeting followed in September 2026, and on September 30, 2026 the chapter said its officer transition was complete and meetings would continue in October. It is moving its events to the ISC2 Chapters Community portal, where joining requires a portal account and approval.
Free
Jack H. Brown Hall, CSUSB, 5500 University Parkway, San Bernardino · Metro area
Annual open house each October, summer cyber camps for high school students, and year-round student club activity
CSUSB is an NSA Center of Academic Excellence about 20 minutes north of Riverside. The center supports student clubs including a WiCyS student chapter. The 2026 WITH Cyber Camp for high school students ran June 7 to 11, 2026.
Free
Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga; meetings mostly on Zoom · Metro area
Biweekly on Thursdays at 5:00 p.m., mostly on Zoom (the college does not give start dates for the schedule)
Rancho Cucamonga is about 25 minutes northwest of Riverside. The college's own page lists competitions only through 2023; the latest dated activity is its teams' first and third place finishes in the 2026 Inland Empire Mayors Cyber Cup college division.
Students only
chaffey.edu/acc/bth/bth-academics/cyber-club-co… [S13] [S17]
UC Riverside, Winston Chung Hall, Riverside · In the city
General meetings, workshops and competition practice during the academic year; times are posted on the club's Google Calendar and Discord
Competes in CCDC, CPTC and CTF events. The club calendar showed weekly general meetings through April 2026 and a social on June 5, 2026; no fall 2026 meetings were posted when checked. The meeting schedule on the club website still describes spring 2025.
Students only
Inland Empire; teams compete online from their schools · Metro area
Practice labs open in the fall; the final competition is held in late April
Cyber competition for middle school, high school, college and business teams across the Inland Empire. Riverside City College placed in the 2026 college division. The 2026 final began with a kickoff on April 25, 2026.
Students only
Riverside City College, 4800 Magnolia Ave, Riverside · In the city
Student club, WiCyS student chapter and competition teams during the semester; free summer cyber camps for high school students
Riverside City College's Information Security and Cyber Defense program is validated by the NSA and DHS as a Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense. Its WiCyS student chapter runs a CyberSmarties awareness booth once a week each October. The last dated activity found is the 2026 Standard Cyber Camp for high school students, June 15 to 18, 2026.
Students only
FoundrSpace Coworking, 11799 Sebastian Way, Suite 103, Rancho Cucamonga · Metro area
Monthly Saturday breakfast meetups, 8:30 to 11:30 a.m., plus occasional evening networking
Adjacent: a general technology meetup run by a nonprofit, not a security group. It held a cybersecurity expert panel on September 5, 2026 and an evening networking mixer on September 22, 2026. Rancho Cucamonga is about 25 minutes from Riverside.
Free
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