Indianapolis 2600
Fri, Nov 6, 2026 · 5:00 p.m.
Tomlinson Tap Room (second floor), City Market, 222 E. Market St., Indianapolis
Per published schedule; confirm with organizer.
MeetingFree
Indiana
Indianapolis, IN cybersecurity events & groups
Indianapolis has two monthly Friday hacker gatherings (the 2600 meeting at City Market and the IndySec social), plus ISSA and ISACA chapters that mix talks with networking. A WiCyS affiliate and a Purdue student club add to the mix. The closest community conferences are BSidesDayton on May 15, 2027 and BSides Fort Wayne, which has been held in early June.
Start here
- Indianapolis 2600: Open to anyone, meets the first Friday of every month downtown, and needs no membership.
- WiCyS Indianapolis Affiliate: Affiliate with free online events held on August 15, September 14 and September 17, 2026; open to all career levels.
- The Cyber Pickle (ISACA Central Indiana): Free networking on October 29, 2026 with local security, audit and risk people; no pickleball experience needed.
Six months at a glance
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 · Metro area
Statewide annual meeting with the chapter's FBI coordinator and FBI cyber team; 3 CPEs. Registration is on Eventbrite, which lists tickets at no charge.
ConfirmedChapter meetingFree
Technology Seminar: Management and Leadership for Cyber/IT Practitioners
Wed, Nov 11 to Thu, Nov 12, 2026 · 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. each day
NineStar Connect, 2243 E. Main St., Greenfield, IN · Metro area
Two-day course on security policy, awareness programs, incident response policy and running a security team, taught by CJ Cox of Black Hills Information Security. Hosted by NineStar Connect, a Greenfield utility cooperative. Eventbrite lists tickets at price 0, while NineStar's page describes a low cost, so check the fee before registering. The year appears only in the Eventbrite structured data.
ConfirmedTrainingFreeVendor-hosted
Central Indiana ISSA
Thu, Nov 12, 2026 · 5:30 p.m.
Brooksource, Indianapolis
Per published schedule; confirm with organizer.
MeetingFree
Queen City Conference 2026
Fri, Nov 13 to Sun, Nov 15, 2026
Cincinnati, OH (host hotel: Hyatt Regency Cincinnati) · Regional
Three-day security conference run by Cannon Fodder Security Inc., about two hours southeast of Indianapolis. Tickets are on sale; the page shows no prices.
ConfirmedConferencePaid
2026 Ivy Tech Statewide IT Challenge
Fri, Nov 20, 2026 · 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Indianapolis Marriott East, 7202 E. 21st St., Indianapolis
One-day team competition for Indiana college students, hosted by Ivy Tech (an NSA Center of Academic Excellence) with TechPoint. One of the four tracks is cybersecurity and cloud technologies. Not a classic capture-the-flag; teams solve industry problems in front of employers.
ConfirmedCTFStudents only
December 2026
HackRedCon 2026
Fri, Dec 4, 2026 · 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Student Activity Center, 2100 S Floyd St, Louisville, KY · Regional
At the University of Louisville, about two hours south of Indianapolis. The page opened on October 23, 2026 shows the date and venue but no ticket price, so the paid label is an assumption to check there.
ConfirmedConferencePaid
Indianapolis 2600
Fri, Dec 4, 2026 · 5:00 p.m.
Tomlinson Tap Room (second floor), City Market, 222 E. Market St., Indianapolis
Per published schedule; confirm with organizer.
MeetingFree
Central Indiana ISSA
Thu, Dec 10, 2026 · 5:30 p.m.
Brooksource, Indianapolis
Per published schedule; confirm with organizer.
MeetingFree
January 2027
Indianapolis 2600
Fri, Jan 1, 2027 · 5:00 p.m.
Tomlinson Tap Room (second floor), City Market, 222 E. Market St., Indianapolis
Per published schedule; confirm with organizer.
MeetingFree
Central Indiana ISSA
Thu, Jan 14, 2027 · 5:30 p.m.
Brooksource, Indianapolis
Per published schedule; confirm with organizer.
MeetingFree
February 2027
Indianapolis 2600
Fri, Feb 5, 2027 · 5:00 p.m.
Tomlinson Tap Room (second floor), City Market, 222 E. Market St., Indianapolis
Per published schedule; confirm with organizer.
MeetingFree
Central Indiana ISSA
Thu, Feb 11, 2027 · 5:30 p.m.
Brooksource, Indianapolis
Per published schedule; confirm with organizer.
MeetingFree
March 2027
Indianapolis 2600
Fri, Mar 5, 2027 · 5:00 p.m.
Tomlinson Tap Room (second floor), City Market, 222 E. Market St., Indianapolis
Per published schedule; confirm with organizer.
MeetingFree
Central Indiana ISSA
Thu, Mar 11, 2027 · 5:30 p.m.
Brooksource, Indianapolis
Per published schedule; confirm with organizer.
MeetingFree
April 2027
Indianapolis 2600
Fri, Apr 2, 2027 · 5:00 p.m.
Tomlinson Tap Room (second floor), City Market, 222 E. Market St., Indianapolis
Per published schedule; confirm with organizer.
MeetingFree
Central Indiana ISSA
Thu, Apr 8, 2027 · 5:30 p.m.
Brooksource, Indianapolis
Per published schedule; confirm with organizer.
MeetingFree
May 2027
BSidesDayton 2027
Sat, May 15, 2027 · 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Fairborn City Church, 206 W. Dayton-Yellow Springs Rd., Fairborn, OH (Dayton area) · Regional
Community infosec conference with villages and a CTF, about two hours east of Indianapolis. Tickets are sold through the conference site.
ConfirmedConferencePaid
On the radar
Announced without a date, or expected from past editions. Not confirmed.
BSides Bloomington 2027
Held October 2 and 3 in 2026; 2027 dates not yet announced
Bloomington, IN (Bloomington Convention Center in 2026) · Regional
ExpectedConferencePaidFree
BSides Fort Wayne 2027
Held on a Saturday in early June (June 7, 2025; June 6, 2026); 2027 date not yet announced
Fort Wayne, IN · Regional
ExpectedConferencePaid
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
Indiana Public Sector Cybersecurity Summit
Usually held in mid-June (June 17 in 2026, June 18 in 2025); 2027 dates not yet announced
Embassy Suites by Hilton Noblesville Indianapolis Conference Center, Noblesville · Metro area
ExpectedSummitFreeVendor-hosted
Kentuckiana ISACA Secure Digital Conference 2027
The 2026 conference was held March 26 and 27, 2026; 2027 dates not yet announced
Louisville, KY area · Regional
ExpectedConferencePaid
Louisville Metro InfoSec Conference 2027
The 2026 edition was held on September 11, 2026; 2027 dates not yet announced
Louisville, KY · Regional
ExpectedConferencePaid
Groups & associations
Professional associations
Central Indiana ISSA
Brooksource, Indianapolis · In the city
Standing meeting on the second Thursday of the month (the March 2026 meeting ran 5:30 to 8:00 p.m.); no August meeting
Guests are always welcome free of charge. The chapter said it would take an August 2026 break and resume in September, but no dated meeting after March 12, 2026 could be found, and the chapter site was in maintenance mode on October 23, 2026. Registration has run through the chapter's Eventbrite page.
Quiet: last activity Mar 2026Free
ISACA Central Indiana Chapter
Indianapolis area; 2026 events in Carmel · Metro area
Occasional events; no regular monthly meeting published
For IT audit, governance, risk and security professionals. The April 16, 2026 annual meeting and Cyber Pickle at Pickle on Penn in Carmel was free. The chapter calendar also listed a free GRC Day in Fishers on July 16, 2026, which it says was sponsored externally, so it is not counted as chapter activity. A second Cyber Pickle is scheduled for October 29, 2026.
Quiet: last activity Apr 2026Free
OWASP Indianapolis
Indianapolis · In the city
Irregular, a few meetups a year; none announced
Application security chapter. Its Meetup page lists a December 13, 2025 meetup and a September 9, 2025 meeting; its December socials have been held jointly with IndyHackers. OWASP's chapter status page counted no meetings in the year before May 2026, which does not match the Meetup page.
Quiet: last activity Dec 2025Free
Hacker and grassroots groups
Indianapolis 2600
Tomlinson Tap Room (second floor), City Market, 222 E. Market St., Indianapolis · In the city
First Friday of every month, 5:00 p.m.
Talk is roughly half tech, half general chat, with 5 to 15 people. The venue is a bar; the organizers ask anyone under 21 to announce themselves on the #in2600 IRC channel first. The Meetup group is private (request to join) but lists every monthly meeting; the most recent one held was October 2, 2026.
Free
IndySec
Indianapolis (venue shown to Meetup group members) · In the city
Monthly social; in 2026 it met on second Fridays at 5:30 p.m. from February to July
A social group for anyone interested in information security in central Indiana. The Meetup group is private, so you must request to join to see venues. No meeting after July 10, 2026 was posted as of October 23, 2026.
Free
Inclusion and career communities
WiCyS Indianapolis Affiliate
Indianapolis; events so far online and at regional conferences · In the city
Occasional events; no regular schedule yet
Women in CyberSecurity affiliate, open to all career levels. It held its first online meeting on August 15, 2026, an online fireside chat on the WiCyS Security Training Scholarship on September 14, 2026 and an online information session on the WiCyS 2027 call for proposals on September 17, 2026. In person, it had a table at BSides Fort Wayne on June 6, 2026 and listed a table at BSides Bloomington on October 2 and 3, 2026.
Free
Public-private and government
InfraGard Indiana Members Alliance
Statewide, based in the Indianapolis area; events in Fishers and Fort Wayne · In the city
Irregular events around Indiana
FBI partnership for critical infrastructure protection. Membership requires FBI vetting, but some events are open on Eventbrite. The last event found that is known to have taken place was a November 6, 2025 talk in Fishers. The chapter listed a joint meeting in Fort Wayne on October 8, 2026, but no report that it took place was found. Its annual meeting is in Fishers on November 9, 2026.
Quiet: last activity Nov 2025Vetting required
Education and student groups
PINSecurity (Purdue University in Indianapolis)
Engineering and Technology Building, Purdue University in Indianapolis · In the city
Meetings during the school year; the fall 2026 first meeting was Monday, August 31 at 5:00 p.m.
Student cybersecurity club for cyber, IT and computer science students at Purdue's Indianapolis campus. Its last event on BoilerLink was the fall kickoff on August 31, 2026. Past meetings included National Cyber League practice and guest speakers. Purdue University is an NSA Center of Academic Excellence.
Students only
boilerlink.purdue.edu/organization/cybersecurity [S26] [S27]
Adjacent communities
IndyAWS
Indianapolis · In the city
Evening meetups roughly monthly, 6:30 p.m.
Adjacent: an Amazon Web Services user group, not a security group, though cloud security topics come up. It helped host AWS Community Day Midwest at the Hyatt Regency Indianapolis on June 24, 2026. Its Meetup page lists a meetup on October 27, 2026.
Free
Directory checklist
9 of 19 national directories list a local chapter
| Directory | Result |
|---|---|
| 2600 Meetings | Local chapter: Indianapolis 2600 |
| CISA Regional Offices | Nearest: CISA Region 5 (Chicago); no public Indianapolis events posted |
| Cloud Security Alliance | Nearest: CSA Ohio River Valley Chapter (covers Indianapolis; 2026 sessions met in Columbus with a Zoom option) |
| Cyversity (formerly ICMCP) Chapters | No chapter found |
| DEF CON Groups | Local chapter: DC317 (DEF CON Group Indianapolis) |
| HTCIA | Nearest: HTCIA Ohio Chapter |
| IAPP KnowledgeNet | Nearest: IAPP KnowledgeNet Indianapolis (members only; chairs listed, but no meetings scheduled or past dates published) |
| InfraGard Members Alliances | Local chapter: InfraGard Indiana Members Alliance |
| ISACA | Local chapter: ISACA Central Indiana Chapter |
| ISC2 | Nearest: ISC2 Cincinnati Tri-State Chapter (Indiana has no ISC2 chapter) |
| ISSA | Local chapter: Central Indiana ISSA |
| NSA National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity (NCAE-C) | Local chapter: PINSecurity (Purdue University in Indianapolis) |
| OWASP | Local chapter: OWASP Indianapolis |
| SANS Institute | Nearest: SANS Chicago 2027 |
| SecureWorld | Nearest: SecureWorld Chicago |
| Security BSides | Local chapter: BSides Indy |
| TOOOL (The Open Organisation Of Lockpickers) | Nearest: TOOOL Chicago (CHI) |
| WiCyS (Women in CyberSecurity) Professional Affiliates | Local chapter: WiCyS Indianapolis Affiliate |
| Women's Society of Cyberjutsu (WSC) Chapters | No chapter found |
Dormant groups
3 groups with no public activity for 18 months or more
- BSides Indy: last public activity Mar 2018 [S29]
- CircleCityCon: last public activity Jun 2023 [S30] [S31]
- DC317 (DEF CON Group Indianapolis): last public activity Apr 2016 [S32] [S33]
Field notes
- The 30th CISSE Colloquium, which aggregator sites still list for October 26 to 28, 2026 at the Sheraton Indianapolis City Centre, has been moved to mid-2027 with the location not yet chosen.
- The Indianapolis 2600 meeting is not on 2600 Magazine's current meeting list; the local site in2600.com and the group's Meetup page are the sources to check.
- IndySec and the 2600 Meetup groups are private: request to join to see venues and RSVP.
- Central Indiana ISSA's site was in maintenance mode on October 23, 2026 and no meeting after March 12, 2026 could be confirmed; check its Eventbrite page before going on a second Thursday.
- CircleCityCon and BSides Indy no longer run. BSides Bloomington (October 2 and 3, 2026) was the closest community conference; its 2027 dates are not announced.
Sources
Numbered references for the listings on this page.
- S1https://www.in2600.com/
- S2https://www.meetup.com/Indianapolis-2600-Computer-Security-InfoSec-Group/
- S3https://www.secureindiana.org/events-1/2026-iima-annual-event-save-the-date
- S4https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2026-iima-annual-event-tickets-2002233375926
- S5https://www.eventbrite.com/e/technology-seminar-management-and-leadership-for-cyberit-practitioners-tickets-1994309791271
- S6https://www.ninestarconnect.com/techseminar/
- S7https://ci-issa.org/meetings/
- S8https://www.eventbrite.com/e/central-indiana-issa-meeting-march-2026-tickets-1983834671907
- S9https://queencitycon.org/
- S10https://www.ivytech.edu/programs/signature-opportunities-for-students/2026-ivy-tech-it-challenge/
- S11https://www.hackredcon.com/
- S12https://bsidesdayton.com/
- S13https://bsidesbloomington.org/
- S14https://bsidesfortwayne.org/
- S15https://www.cerias.purdue.edu/site/symposium/
- S16https://events.govtech.com/Indiana-Public-Sector-Cybersecurity-Summit
- S17https://engage.isaca.org/kentuckianachapter/events/eventdescription?CalendarEventKey=e74fa0cb-17af-40a1-be63-019bfcb5b25c&CommunityKey=8f27209d-ae4a-4300-8aae-5ddd136a2faa&Home=/kentuckianachapter/events/calendar
- S18https://www.louisvilleinfosec.com/
- S19https://engage.isaca.org/centralindianachapter/events/eventdescription?CalendarEventKey=9316f9a0-d7b1-401c-b4f3-019cfd328c65&CommunityKey=6dd3d20b-92b5-45dc-8f75-4543766daa8f
- S20https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-cyber-pickle-tickets-1998994027949
- S21https://www.meetup.com/indyowasp/events/?type=past
- S22https://owasp.org/www-chapter-indianapolis/
- S23https://www.meetup.com/SecureIndy/events/?type=past
- S24https://www.wicys.org/organizer/wicys-indianapolis-affiliate/
- S25https://www.linkedin.com/company/infragard-indiana
- S26https://boilerlink.purdue.edu/organization/cybersecurity
- S27https://boilerlink.purdue.edu/event/12648038
- S28https://www.meetup.com/indyaws/events/?type=past
- S29https://x.com/indybsides
- S30https://registration.circlecitycon.org/
- S31https://www.linkedin.com/company/circlecity-con
- S32https://forum.defcon.org/node/266
- S33https://www.reddit.com/r/indianapolis/comments/4dcz8m/defcon_317_meeting_april_7th/