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SecTor 2024 Announces Record-Breaking Attendance Following Successful Close of Toronto Event | 2 Minutes on ITSPmagazine

Episode Summary

Since 2007, SecTor, Canada’s largest cybersecurity conference, has brought relevant, engaging, and reputable content for the benefit of the Canadian cybersecurity community. SecTor is part of the Black Hat global cybersecurity events portfolio.

Episode Notes

SecTor, Canada’s largest cybersecurity conference, today announced the successful completion of the in-person component of SecTor 2024. The event welcomed 5,000 unique attendees joining in-person from October 22 to October 24 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre in downtown Toronto.

Show highlights for 2024 included:

● Keynotes: This year’s event featured two Keynote presentations. The opening Keynote was presented by Leigh Honeywell, founder and CEO of Tall Poppy, and the second Keynote was presented by Omkhar Arasaratnam, Distinguished Engineer for Security at LinkedIn.

● Business Hall: This year’s Business Hall showcased the latest products and technologies from more than 140 of the industry’s leading cybersecurity solution providers. The Business Hall also featured areas for attendee, vendor, and community engagement through Exhibitor Booths, Arsenal, Sponsored Sessions, Bricks & Picks, and the Community Lounge.

● Summits: On Tuesday, October 22, the event featured a full day of Summit content, including the ninth annual SecTor Executive Summit, the inaugural The AI Summit at SecTor, and the ninth annual Cloud Security Summit at SecTor.

● Scholarships: As a way to introduce the next generation of security professionals to the SecTor community, SecTor awarded a total of 37 complimentary SecTor 2024 Briefings passes. Black Hat holds its own annual Student and Veteran Scholarship programs, and partners with a variety of associations on additional scholarship opportunities.

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Resources

Press Release: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241030638106/en/SecTor-2024-Announces-Record-Breaking-Attendance-Following-Successful-Close-of-Toronto-Event

Learn more and catch more stories from SecTor Cybersecurity Conference Toronto 2024: https://www.itspmagazine.com/sector-cybersecurity-conference-2024-cybersecurity-event-coverage-in-toronto-canada

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