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Portland, OR cybersecurity events & groups

Portland's security community meets most often at grassroots events: the RainSec social on the last Tuesday of each month, a weekly Exploit Workshop and a monthly locksport meetup at PDX Hackerspace, and a 2600 meeting on first Fridays. ISSA Portland, ISACA, ISC2 Oregon and InfraGard Oregon meet less often, and several of them are statewide or partly online. BSidesPDX, the volunteer-run conference, is held October 23 and 24, 2026 at Portland State University.

Verified Oct 21–24, 2026 · Covers October 2026 through April 2027 · Times are Pacific Time

Portland metro: Portland, Beaverton, Hillsboro, Tigard, Wilsonville, Gresham, Vancouver WA

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  1. RainSec (PDX Information Security Meetup): Free, open, non-vendor social; no RSVP needed and the organizers report 40 to 60 people a month.
  2. Exploit Workshop at PDX Hackerspace (CTRL-H): Weekly hands-on security night at PDX Hackerspace, open to beginners and professionals.
  3. BSidesPDX 2026: The city's community security conference, held October 23 and 24, 2026, with a pay-what-you-can ticket tier.

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Datebook

November 2026

RainSec (PDX Information Security Meetup)

Tue, Nov 24, 2026 · 6:30 p.m.

Lucky Lab Brew Pub, 915 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland

Per published schedule; confirm with organizer.

MeetingFree

meetup.com/rainsec [S6] [S7]

December 2026

ISC2 Oregon Chapter annual meeting and elections

Thu, Dec 17, 2026 · 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Location to be announced (the chapter says most meetings are online) · Metro area

The event page shows no tickets on sale and no price. Only ISC2 certificate holders vote in chapter elections.

ConfirmedChapter meetingFree

isc2chapteroregon.wixsite.com/website/event-det… [S8]

RainSec (PDX Information Security Meetup)

Tue, Dec 29, 2026 · 6:30 p.m.

Lucky Lab Brew Pub, 915 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland

Per published schedule; confirm with organizer.

MeetingFree

meetup.com/rainsec [S6] [S7]

January 2027

RainSec (PDX Information Security Meetup)

Tue, Jan 26, 2027 · 6:30 p.m.

Lucky Lab Brew Pub, 915 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland

Per published schedule; confirm with organizer.

MeetingFree

meetup.com/rainsec [S6] [S7]

February 2027

RainSec (PDX Information Security Meetup)

Tue, Feb 23, 2027 · 6:30 p.m.

Lucky Lab Brew Pub, 915 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland

Per published schedule; confirm with organizer.

MeetingFree

meetup.com/rainsec [S6] [S7]

March 2027

RainSec (PDX Information Security Meetup)

Tue, Mar 30, 2027 · 6:30 p.m.

Lucky Lab Brew Pub, 915 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland

Per published schedule; confirm with organizer.

MeetingFree

meetup.com/rainsec [S6] [S7]

April 2027

RainSec (PDX Information Security Meetup)

Tue, Apr 27, 2027 · 6:30 p.m.

Lucky Lab Brew Pub, 915 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland

Per published schedule; confirm with organizer.

MeetingFree

meetup.com/rainsec [S6] [S7]

October 2027

Oregon Cyber Resilience Summit 2027

Wed, Oct 6, 2027 · 8:30 a.m. to 5:45 p.m.

Erb Memorial Union (EMU), Level 2, University of Oregon, Eugene · Regional

Hosted by the University of Oregon with CISA, the FBI, the Oregon Titan Fusion Center and the Technology Association of Oregon. Registration for 2027 is not open. The 2026 edition cost $25, waived for public sector and nonprofit attendees, so the 2027 price is a judgement call.

ConfirmedSummitPaidFree

ocrs.uoregon.edu [S9] [S10]

On the radar

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

BSidesPDX 2027

Held in October in 2022 through 2026 (October 24 and 25 in 2025, October 23 and 24 in 2026); 2027 dates not yet announced

Portland; the 2026 edition is at Portland State University

ExpectedConferencePaid

bsidespdx.org [S11] [S12]

Hackboat 2027

Held once a year in early June (2024, 2025, and scheduled for June 5, 2026); the 2027 edition is expected in June 2027 but not yet announced; the organizer page still shows the 2026 edition with registration closed

Willamette River cruise; the 2026 edition boarded at 110 SE Caruthers St, Portland

ExpectedConferencePaid

hackboat.org [S13] [S14]

Oregon Public Sector Cybersecurity Summit

The 2026 edition was held September 22, 2026 and the organizer page invites attendees back for the following edition; 2027 dates not yet announced

Salem Convention Center, Salem · Regional

ExpectedSummitFreeVendor-hosted

events.govtech.com/Oregon-Public-Sector-Cyberse… [S15]

Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference (PNSQC) 2027

The 44th edition was held October 12 to 14, 2026; 2027 dates not yet announced

Portland; the 2026 edition was at University Place Hotel & Conference Center

ExpectedConferencePaid

pnsqc.org [S16] [S17]

The Official Cybersecurity Summit: Portland

Held each August since 2024 (the third edition was August 19, 2026); the organizer's schedule of 2026 and 2027 summits does not list Portland, so this edition may not take place

Portland; the 2026 edition was at the Hyatt Regency Portland, 375 NE Holladay St

ExpectedSummitPaidVetting requiredVendor-hosted

cybersecuritysummit.com/portland [S18] [S19]

Groups & associations

Professional associations

CyberRisk Collaborative Portland

Portland (venue shared with registered members) · In the city

CISO dinners and an annual Leadership Exchange for senior security leaders

A membership community run by CyberRisk Alliance, a media and events company, with a local leadership board. Its Portland CISO dinner was held February 18, 2026. Attendance is by invitation for senior security leaders. Both source pages returned an access error on this run; the details are carried over from the previous check and could not be re-read.

Quiet: last activity Feb 2026Invite onlyVendor-hosted

cyberriskcollaborative.com/community/portland-or [S20] [S21]

ISACA Portland, Oregon Chapter

Portland; the May 2026 spring training was in Wilsonville · In the city

Irregular; mix of online talks and in-person training

Audit, governance, risk and security chapter formed in 1980, serving Oregon and southwest Washington. Its 2026 spring training opened with a virtual keynote on May 12, 2026 and continued in person on May 13 and 14, 2026 at Clackamas Community College's Wilsonville campus, 29353 SW Town Center Loop E. Several listed talks are virtual.

Paid

engage.isaca.org/portlandoregonchapter/home [S22] [S23] [S24]

ISC2 Oregon Chapter

Statewide chapter; most meetings are online · Metro area

Roughly every two months, 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.; location announced per meeting

Anyone can join as a chapter member; only ISC2 certificate holders vote. The chapter says it plans online technology for most meetings. Its site lists an annual meeting and elections on December 17, 2026 with location TBD. A chapter meeting on October 15, 2026 that the site listed earlier is no longer shown, and its past-events list ends with December 18, 2025.

Quiet: last activity Dec 2025Free

isc2chapteroregon.wixsite.com/website [S25] [S26]

ISSA Portland Chapter

Portland · In the city

Lunch chapter meetings; the chapter site says monthly, September through May

The chapter site says it holds monthly meetings from September to May plus two symposiums a year, but its own news feed stops at a CISO panel on October 10, 2024. The chapter's Eventbrite page shows a hybrid lunch meeting on September 10, 2026 at The Portland Building, 1120 SW Fifth Avenue, Room 216, with the City of Portland CISO speaking; the ticket is marked paid but the page shows no price, so the cost is a judgement call. No later meeting was found.

Paid

portland.issa.org [S27] [S28]

OWASP Portland

Portland · In the city

Irregular; no meeting announced

The chapter page describes monthly meetings, but the chapter's Meetup page shows only one event since August 2024: a 2026 planning meeting on December 30, 2025 at Pioneer Tower. The chapter says Meetup is its main channel for announcements.

Quiet: last activity Dec 2025Free

owasp.org/www-chapter-portland [S29] [S30]

SIM PDX Cybersecurity Leadership Forum

Portland (venue varies by forum) · In the city

Recurring forums for security and IT leaders, co-hosted with TAO; dates are posted on the SIM Portland chapter calendar

Run by the Portland chapter of the Society for Information Management. The last forum with a published date was May 6, 2025; later forums (AI & Cybersecurity, Agentic AI, Practical GRC) are listed on SIM's site without readable dates. The owner reports the forum series is active; the chapter calendar currently has a display bug. SIM event pages returned an access error on this run, so no date could be read.

Quiet: last activity May 2025Paid

chapter.simnet.org/portland/events/calendar [S31] [S32] [S33]

Hacker and grassroots groups

DC503 (DEF CON Group Portland)

Portland (meeting place not published) · In the city

The group says it meets the third Sunday of the month at 3:00 p.m.; the place is not published

Portland's DEF CON group. Its X account says it meets at an undisclosed location, and the Portland community index says in-person meetings resumed in September 2023 and to ask around at other meetups for an invite. The newest dated Portland meeting found is a barbecue at PDX Hackerspace on August 18, 2019. The last_activity date is the group's DEF CON 2026 party in Las Vegas on August 7, 2026, from its own 503.party page; no recap was found, so the evidence is thin and the status is a judgement call. The group's own site (503.ninja) could not be opened.

Invite only

x.com/dc503 [S34] [S35] [S36]

Exploit Workshop at PDX Hackerspace (CTRL-H)

PDX Hackerspace, 7608 N Interstate Ave, Portland · In the city

Wednesdays, 6:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.

Open, self-directed computer security night for all experience levels. Bringing a laptop is encouraged but not required. The hackerspace is one block north of N Lombard, near the MAX Yellow Line Lombard Transit Center.

Free

events.pdxhackerspace.org/events/exploit-worksh… [S1] [S2] [S3]

PDX Hackerspace Locksport Meetup

PDX Hackerspace, 7608 N Interstate Ave, Portland · In the city

Third Saturday of the month, 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Lockpicking and physical security skill-sharing, open to everyone. Loaner tools and basic locks are provided. This is a hackerspace event, not a TOOOL chapter.

Free

events.pdxhackerspace.org/events/locksport-meet… [S4] [S5]

RainSec (PDX Information Security Meetup)

Lucky Lab Brew Pub, 915 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland · In the city

Last Tuesday of the month, 6:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.

Portland's CitySec-style social for security professionals, in a non-work, non-vendor setting and open to anyone interested. No RSVP or Meetup membership is required.

Free

meetup.com/rainsec [S6] [S7]

Inclusion and career communities

WiCyS Oregon Affiliate

Portland · In the city

No regular schedule published; events announced through the affiliate newsletter and LinkedIn

Oregon professional affiliate of Women in CyberSecurity. Its 2025 events in Portland included a free social at Ground Kontrol (June 3, 2025) and a leadership exchange for senior security leaders at the Hyatt Regency Portland (September 10, 2025); its most recent listed event was a virtual fireside chat on September 25, 2025. No 2026 affiliate event was found. Subscribe to the affiliate newsletter from its WiCyS page for announcements.

Quiet: last activity Sep 2025Free

wicys.org/wicys-oregon-affiliate [S37] [S38] [S39] [S40] [S41]

Public-private and government

InfraGard Oregon Members Alliance

Statewide; meetings rotate around Oregon · Metro area

Membership meetings announced by email; none scheduled

FBI-affiliated public-private partnership for critical infrastructure. Membership is free but requires an application through the national InfraGard portal; the chapter says most events are open to non-members. The March 17, 2026 meeting was at the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum in McMinnville, with an online option.

Quiet: last activity Mar 2026FreeVetting required

oregoninfragard.org [S42] [S43]

Oregon Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (OCCoE)

Statewide program of Portland State University, Oregon State University and the University of Oregon · Metro area

No regular meetings; runs online research seminars, co-hosts conferences around the state and publishes a statewide calendar of cybersecurity events

Created by Oregon HB 2049 to support the State CISO with education, training and services, with a focus on local governments, schools and tribes. Most events on its calendar are held by other organizations or co-hosted with them, often in Salem, Eugene or Pendleton; it hosted a resource table at the Oregon Public Sector Cybersecurity Summit in Salem on September 22, 2026. Its calendar also lists government conferences in Eugene, Salem and Medford that are outside Portland.

Free

occoe.org [S44] [S45]

Education and student groups

Oregon Tech Cybersecurity Club Portland

Oregon Tech Portland-Metro campus, Room 259, Wilsonville · Metro area

Weekly during the academic year; meeting times not published

Student-run club founded in 2025 that practices for CTF competitions and runs hands-on workshops. Oregon Tech reports it held a hackathon on June 4, 2026.

Students only

oitcybersec.org [S46] [S47]

TitanTurtles Cybersecurity Club

Portland (meeting place not published) · In the city

Middle and high school CyberPatriot team; no public meeting schedule; the competition season starts each October

Youth competition team for middle and high school students, associated with Sunshine Elite Education, which takes applications. The site reports the team as the 2025-2026 CyberPatriot Open Division national champion; its CyberPatriot 18 National Finals ran March 19 to 24, 2026. Its events page lists no future events, and no price is stated on the site, so the cost is a judgement call.

Quiet: last activity Mar 2026Students only

titanturtles.org [S48] [S49] [S50]

Conference series

BSidesPDX

Portland State University (conference); Portland · In the city

Annual conference in October; also runs Hackboat, a river-cruise unconference; board meetings are announced on its mailing list

Volunteer-run 501(c)(3) nonprofit. BSidesPDX 2025 was held October 24 and 25, 2025 at Portland State University. Its board held its annual officer election at an open board meeting on July 8, 2026. Hackboat, scheduled for June 5, 2026, is billed as a BSides Portland production.

Paid

bsidespdx.org [S12] [S13] [S51]

Adjacent communities

Portland AWS User Group

ProFocus Technology Professionals, 10200 SW Eastridge St, Portland · In the city

Evening tech talks about once a month, 5:30 p.m.

Adjacent: a general Amazon Web Services user group, not a security group. Listed because some talks cover cloud security; its September 23, 2026 tech talk was on cyber resilience. The next talk, on October 27, 2026, is about serverless networking.

Free

meetup.com/aws-portland [S52] [S53]

Directory checklist

10 of 19 national directories list a local chapter
DirectoryResult
2600 MeetingsLocal chapter: PDX 2600
CISA Regional OfficesNearest: CISA Region 10 (Seattle)
Cloud Security AllianceNearest: CSA Seattle Chapter
Cyversity (formerly ICMCP) ChaptersNearest: Cyversity Seattle Chapter
DEF CON GroupsLocal chapter: DC503 (DEF CON Group Portland)
HTCIANo chapter found
IAPP KnowledgeNetNearest: IAPP KnowledgeNet Portland (meetings found were virtual)
InfraGard Members AlliancesLocal chapter: InfraGard Oregon Members Alliance
ISACALocal chapter: ISACA Portland, Oregon Chapter
ISC2Local chapter: ISC2 Oregon Chapter
ISSALocal chapter: ISSA Portland Chapter
NSA National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity (NCAE-C)Local chapter: Oregon Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (OCCoE)
OWASPLocal chapter: OWASP Portland
SANS InstituteNearest: SANS Seattle 2027
SecureWorldNearest: SecureWorld Seattle
Security BSidesLocal chapter: BSidesPDX
TOOOL (The Open Organisation Of Lockpickers)No chapter found
WiCyS (Women in CyberSecurity) Professional AffiliatesLocal chapter: WiCyS Oregon Affiliate
Women's Society of Cyberjutsu (WSC) ChaptersNo chapter found

Checked Oct 24, 2026

Dormant groups

2 groups with no public activity for 18 months or more

Field notes

Sources

Numbered references for the listings on this page.

  1. S1https://events.pdxhackerspace.org/events/exploit-workshop
  2. S2https://events.pdxhackerspace.org/occurrences/exploit-workshop-2026-10-21
  3. S3https://events.pdxhackerspace.org/location
  4. S4https://events.pdxhackerspace.org/events/locksport-meetup
  5. S5https://events.pdxhackerspace.org/occurrences/locksport-meetup-2026-10-17
  6. S6https://www.meetup.com/rainsec/
  7. S7https://www.meetup.com/rainsec/events/316883796/
  8. S8https://isc2chapteroregon.wixsite.com/website/event-details/annual-meetings-and-elections
  9. S9https://ocrs.uoregon.edu/
  10. S10https://ocrs.uoregon.edu/registration/
  11. S11https://bsidespdx.org/about/past-events.html
  12. S12https://bsidespdx.org/
  13. S13https://hackboat.org/
  14. S14https://mastodon.online/@pdx2600
  15. S15https://events.govtech.com/Oregon-Public-Sector-Cybersecurity-Summit
  16. S16https://pnsqc.org/
  17. S17https://pnsqc.org/register/
  18. S18https://cyberriskalliance.swoogo.com/portland-august-2026
  19. S19https://cybersecuritysummit.com/portland/
  20. S20https://www.cyberriskcollaborative.com/community/portland-or
  21. S21https://events.cyberriskcollaborative.com/feb-2026-portland-ciso-dinner/agenda
  22. S22https://engage.isaca.org/portlandoregonchapter/home
  23. S23https://engage.isaca.org/portlandoregonchapter/events/eventdescription?CalendarEventKey=1c8b80f5-adb0-4e35-a6ea-019b0eb463e6&CommunityKey=a76f08b1-6425-4d1b-aaa1-db1ba0ab0226
  24. S24https://www.eventbrite.com/e/isaca-portland-oregon-chapter-presents-spring-training-tickets-1984329593230
  25. S25https://isc2chapteroregon.wixsite.com/website
  26. S26https://isc2chapteroregon.wixsite.com/website/past-events
  27. S27https://portland.issa.org/
  28. S28https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-cybersecurity-matrix-in-2026-2027-tickets-1999123137118
  29. S29https://owasp.org/www-chapter-portland/
  30. S30https://www.meetup.com/owasp-portland-chapter/
  31. S31https://chapter.simnet.org/portland/events/calendar
  32. S32https://members.simnet.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=2079357
  33. S33https://www.techoregon.org/event/sim-pdx-cybersecurity-leadership-forum
  34. S34https://x.com/dc503
  35. S35https://503.party/
  36. S36https://forum.defcon.org/node/231467
  37. S37https://www.wicys.org/wicys-oregon-affiliate/
  38. S38https://www.wicys.org/event/wicys-oregon-affiliate-social-at-ground-kontrol/
  39. S39https://www.wicys.org/event/wicys-oregon-affiliate-portland-leadership-exchange/
  40. S40https://www.wicys.org/event/wicys-oregon-affiliate-insider-awareness-month-fireside-chat/
  41. S41https://www.linkedin.com/company/wicys-oregon-affiliate/
  42. S42https://oregoninfragard.org/
  43. S43https://oregoninfragard.org/events
  44. S44https://www.occoe.org/
  45. S45https://www.occoe.org/events-info-crMKn
  46. S46https://oitcybersec.org/
  47. S47https://www.oit.edu/news/oregon-tech-portland-metro-cybersecurity-club-hosts-hackathon-focused-real-world-skills
  48. S48https://titanturtles.org/
  49. S49https://titanturtles.org/events
  50. S50https://titanturtles.org/apply.html
  51. S51https://pdx.social/@BSidesPDX
  52. S52https://www.meetup.com/aws-portland/
  53. S53https://www.meetup.com/aws-portland/events/316860384/
  54. S54https://pdx2600.org/
  55. S55https://www.2600.com/meetings/
  56. S56https://www.meetup.com/portland-ai-cybersecurity-meetup-group/