Hampton Roads 2600
Fri, Nov 6, 2026 · 5:00 p.m.
Barnes & Noble cafe, Peninsula Town Center, Hampton · Metro area
Per published schedule; confirm with organizer.
MeetingFree
Virginia
Norfolk, VA cybersecurity events & groups
ISSA Hampton Roads runs a free monthly cybersecurity happy hour at The OV Beach Tavern in Ocean View, Norfolk, alongside its first-Tuesday talks in Virginia Beach. DC757, the regional DEF CON group, meets at libraries and bars around Hampton Roads, and Old Dominion University's student security club is in Norfolk. The first BSides Hampton Roads takes place October 9 and 10, 2026 at ODU's Webb University Center.
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- ISSA Hampton Roads Chapter (ISSA-HR): Free, open monthly happy hour in Norfolk plus a monthly talk in Virginia Beach that is also streamed on Zoom.
- BSides Hampton Roads 2026: The region's first community-run security conference, October 9 and 10, 2026 at ODU in Norfolk.
- DC757 (DEF CON Group Hampton Roads, 757/948): The local DEF CON group; open talks and socials that rotate around Hampton Roads, including Norfolk.
Six months at a glance
Datebook
November 2026
Norfolk Cybersecurity Networking & Happy Hour
Tue, Nov 17, 2026 · 6:00 to 9:00 p.m.
The OV Beach Tavern, 9659 1st View St, Norfolk (Ocean View)
Free networking social; RSVP on Meetup.
ConfirmedMeetupFree
December 2026
ISSA Hampton Roads Chapter (ISSA-HR)
Tue, Dec 1, 2026 · 5:30 p.m.
Talks at ECPI University, 5555 Greenwich Rd, Suite 360, Virginia Beach; socials in Norfolk, Chesapeake and Virginia Beach · Metro area
Per published schedule; confirm with organizer.
MeetingFree
Hampton Roads 2600
Fri, Dec 4, 2026 · 5:00 p.m.
Barnes & Noble cafe, Peninsula Town Center, Hampton · Metro area
Per published schedule; confirm with organizer.
MeetingFree
Norfolk Cybersecurity Networking & Happy Hour
Tue, Dec 15, 2026 · 6:00 to 9:00 p.m.
The OV Beach Tavern, 9659 1st View St, Norfolk (Ocean View)
Meetup lists Tuesday, December 15, 2026; the Eventbrite series runs through December 16, 2026. Check the listing before going.
ConfirmedMeetupFree
January 2027
Hampton Roads 2600
Fri, Jan 1, 2027 · 5:00 p.m.
Barnes & Noble cafe, Peninsula Town Center, Hampton · Metro area
Per published schedule; confirm with organizer.
MeetingFree
ISSA Hampton Roads Chapter (ISSA-HR)
Tue, Jan 5, 2027 · 5:30 p.m.
Talks at ECPI University, 5555 Greenwich Rd, Suite 360, Virginia Beach; socials in Norfolk, Chesapeake and Virginia Beach · Metro area
Per published schedule; confirm with organizer.
MeetingFree
February 2027
ISSA Hampton Roads Chapter (ISSA-HR)
Tue, Feb 2, 2027 · 5:30 p.m.
Talks at ECPI University, 5555 Greenwich Rd, Suite 360, Virginia Beach; socials in Norfolk, Chesapeake and Virginia Beach · Metro area
Per published schedule; confirm with organizer.
MeetingFree
Hampton Roads 2600
Fri, Feb 5, 2027 · 5:00 p.m.
Barnes & Noble cafe, Peninsula Town Center, Hampton · Metro area
Per published schedule; confirm with organizer.
MeetingFree
March 2027
ISSA Hampton Roads Chapter (ISSA-HR)
Tue, Mar 2, 2027 · 5:30 p.m.
Talks at ECPI University, 5555 Greenwich Rd, Suite 360, Virginia Beach; socials in Norfolk, Chesapeake and Virginia Beach · Metro area
Per published schedule; confirm with organizer.
MeetingFree
Hampton Roads 2600
Fri, Mar 5, 2027 · 5:00 p.m.
Barnes & Noble cafe, Peninsula Town Center, Hampton · Metro area
Per published schedule; confirm with organizer.
MeetingFree
April 2027
Hampton Roads 2600
Fri, Apr 2, 2027 · 5:00 p.m.
Barnes & Noble cafe, Peninsula Town Center, Hampton · Metro area
Per published schedule; confirm with organizer.
MeetingFree
ISSA Hampton Roads Chapter (ISSA-HR)
Tue, Apr 6, 2027 · 5:30 p.m.
Talks at ECPI University, 5555 Greenwich Rd, Suite 360, Virginia Beach; socials in Norfolk, Chesapeake and Virginia Beach · Metro area
Per published schedule; confirm with organizer.
MeetingFree
May 2027
AFCEA Hampton Roads 2027 Maritime Operations & Information Warfare Summit
Tue, May 18 to Thu, May 20, 2027
Hilton Norfolk The Main, 100 East Main Street, Norfolk
Defense-industry summit run by the AFCEA Hampton Roads chapter covering information warfare, C4 and cyber, and maritime operations, with a small business expo. The 2026 edition ran May 11 to 14, 2026 at the same hotel. Registration details for 2027 are not yet posted.
ConfirmedSummitPaid
June 2027
RVAsec 16
Wed, Jun 9 to Thu, Jun 10, 2027
Richmond (2027 venue not yet stated; the 2026 edition was at The Marriott Richmond) · Regional
Two-day Richmond security conference with talks, a CTF and lockpicking, about 95 miles from Norfolk. The organizers announced the 2027 dates on September 23, 2026.
ConfirmedConferencePaid
On the radar
Announced without a date, or expected from past editions. Not confirmed.
CyberForge 2027
Announced by the organizer; date not yet published.
Hampton Roads (venue not yet announced) · Metro area
Date TBAConferencePaid
SANS Virginia Beach 2027
Usually held in late August; 2027 dates not yet announced
Virginia Beach oceanfront · Metro area
ExpectedTrainingPaidVendor-hosted
Groups & associations
Professional associations
ISSA Hampton Roads Chapter (ISSA-HR)
Talks at ECPI University, 5555 Greenwich Rd, Suite 360, Virginia Beach; socials in Norfolk, Chesapeake and Virginia Beach · Metro area
Monthly meeting on the first Tuesday: networking from 5:30 p.m., talk from 6:00 p.m., at ECPI University in Virginia Beach and on Zoom. Separate evening socials each month in Norfolk (The OV Beach Tavern), Chesapeake (Tap-It Local) and Virginia Beach (The Casual Pint); dates are posted on Meetup and Eventbrite.
The most recent held event found was the Virginia Beach social at The Casual Pint on September 30, 2026; the last talk was September 1, 2026. Socials are free; monthly talks are open to visitors and award CPE credits.
Free
Hacker and grassroots groups
DC757 (DEF CON Group Hampton Roads, 757/948)
Rotates around Hampton Roads (recent meetups at Hampton Library, Mary D. Pretlow Library in Norfolk, and Pixels Pints & Bytes in Ghent, Norfolk) · Metro area
Irregular monthly meetups and socials, announced on LinkedIn and Discord
The September 14, 2026 meetup at Hampton Library (talk: "Anatomy of a Sock Puppet") is the newest dated meeting found. The group's website lists no events.
Free
Hampton Roads 2600
Barnes & Noble cafe, Peninsula Town Center, Hampton · Metro area
First Friday of the month, 5:00 p.m.
last_activity is the first Friday of September 2026, taken from 2600 Magazine's September meeting list; no report of that meeting was found. The local site (2600.757.org) was last updated in 2011 and still names Pembroke Mall.
Free
Public-private and government
InfraGard Norfolk Members Alliance
Norfolk; the 2026 Cyber Summit was at the ODU Webb Center · In the city
No public meeting schedule; membership requires FBI vetting
Co-hosted the first FBI Norfolk Cyber Summit with the FBI Norfolk Field Office and ODU's School of Cybersecurity on January 28, 2026 (1:00 to 4:00 p.m., ODU Webb Center, free with registration). The date comes from the invitation reposted by the Virginia Maritime Association; the chapter's own site posts no events.
Quiet: last activity Jan 2026Vetting required
Education and student groups
Coastal Virginia Cybersecurity Student Association (CVCSA)
Hampton Roads campuses (ODU, Christopher Newport University, Tidewater Community College and others) · Metro area
Monthly speaker events during the academic year; CyberForge conference and CTF once a year
Umbrella group for campus cyber clubs across Hampton Roads. The newest dated activity found is CyberForge 2026 (March 28 and 29, 2026 at Christopher Newport University); no dated speaker event since then was found.
Quiet: last activity Mar 2026Free
Cyber Security Student Association (CS2A), Old Dominion University
Old Dominion University, Norfolk · In the city
Meetings during the academic year; dates posted on the ODU CampusGroups page (sign-in needed for room details)
ODU is an NSA/DHS Center of Academic Excellence. The newest held event with a year is the CyberOps capture-the-flag on February 28, 2026 at the ODU Webb Center, listed by COVA CCI. The club has posted a "Meet the Professors" meeting for October 6, 2026.
Quiet: last activity Feb 2026Students only
TCC Cyber Club (Tidewater Community College)
Tidewater Community College (club listed under the Chesapeake Campus) · Metro area
No public meeting schedule; the club prepares students for cyber competitions
last_activity is the second day of the 2026 Virginia Cyber Cup at VMI, where Tidewater Community College placed third in the community college division. tcc.edu blocks automated reading, so the club page could not be read directly.
Quiet: last activity Feb 2026Students only
tcc.edu/cybersecurity-center/cybersecurity-acti… [S25] [S26]
Conference series
BSides Hampton Roads
ODU Webb University Center, 1301 W 49th St, Norfolk · In the city
Community conference; the inaugural edition is October 9 and 10, 2026
Volunteer-run community security conference for the Hampton Roads region. Its inaugural edition is October 9 and 10, 2026 at Old Dominion University's Webb University Center in Norfolk. No 2027 date has been announced.
Paid
Training
SANS Virginia Beach (SANS Institute training)
Virginia Beach oceanfront hotels · Metro area
Annual multi-day training event in late August
SANS Virginia Beach 2026 ran August 24 to September 4, 2026 at the Hilton Virginia Beach Oceanfront and Hilton Garden Inn; the 2025 edition ran August 18 to 23, 2025. SANS has removed both pages, so dates rest on archived copies.
PaidVendor-hosted
Adjacent communities
Hampton Roads Amazon Web Services User Group
DOMA Technologies, 585 London Bridge Rd, Virginia Beach · Metro area
Formerly first Tuesday evenings; no meeting posted since May 2025
Adjacent: a general AWS cloud user group, not security-focused, though it has held security sessions (AWS Security Best Practices, June 4, 2024).
Quiet: last activity May 2025Free
Directory checklist
7 of 19 national directories list a local chapter
Field notes
- ISSA-HR's Norfolk happy hour does not keep a fixed weekday pattern (August 18, September 22, October 20, November 17 and December 15, 2026), so check the Meetup listing for each date.
- ISSA-HR's monthly talks are in Virginia Beach, not Norfolk; they are also streamed on Zoom. The chapter's December gathering has been a holiday party rather than a first-Tuesday talk (December 9, 2025).
- DC757's website lists no events; the group announces meetups on LinkedIn and Discord, and locations rotate between Hampton, Norfolk and Chesapeake.
- The Hampton Roads 2600 website (2600.757.org) is out of date and names Pembroke Mall; 2600 Magazine's current list gives Peninsula Town Center in Hampton.
- InfraGard Norfolk membership requires FBI vetting; its January 28, 2026 Cyber Summit at ODU was free with registration and open to non-members.
- The ISC2 Virginia Peninsula chapter keeps its events members-only, which is not evidence that it is inactive. ISC2 also lists a Norfolk chapter, but no public page or meeting for it was found.
Sources
Numbered references for the listings on this page.
- S1https://www.2600.com/meetings/
- S2https://2600.757.org/
- S3https://www.meetup.com/issa-hampton-roads/events/qxtwvtyjcpbwb/
- S4https://issa-hr.org/
- S5https://issa-hr.org/future-speakers/meetings/
- S6https://www.meetup.com/issa-hampton-roads/events/?type=past
- S7https://www.meetup.com/issa-hampton-roads/events/qxtwvtyjcqbtb/
- S8https://www.eventbrite.com/e/norfolk-cybersecurity-networking-happy-hour-tickets-1980179496178
- S9https://www.afcea.org/calendar/eventdet.jsp?shp=Y&event_id=81871
- S10https://hamptonroads.afceachapters.org/node/220
- S11https://rvasec.com/
- S12https://cyberforge.cvcsa-cyber.org/
- S13https://covacci.org/events/
- S14https://web.archive.org/web/20260806200736/https://www.sans.org/cyber-security-training-events/virginia-beach-2026
- S15https://www.linkedin.com/company/defcon757/
- S16https://www.dc757.org/
- S17https://forum.defcon.org/node/231691
- S18https://infragard-norfolk.org/
- S19https://www.odu.edu/cyber/outreach
- S20https://vamaritime.com/Web/iCore/Events/Event_display.aspx?EventKey=CYBER0126
- S21https://www.cvcsa-cyber.org/
- S22https://www.linkedin.com/company/cvcsaorg
- S23https://odu.campusgroups.com/cs2a/home/
- S24https://odu.campusgroups.com/cs2a/rsvp?event_uid=474651f63987fa839d5cc1864c1d79bf
- S25https://www.tcc.edu/cybersecurity-center/cybersecurity-activities/
- S26https://www.vmi.edu/news/headlines/2025-2026/vmi-hosts-9th-annual-commonwealth-cyber-fusion-event.php
- S27https://bsideshamptonroads.org/
- S28https://www.odu.edu/events/bsideshamptonroads2026
- S29https://web.archive.org/web/20250805142114/https://www.sans.org/cyber-security-training-events/virginia-beach-2025
- S30https://www.meetup.com/hampton-roads-amazon-web-services-user-group/events/?type=past