ISMG Communities
You’ve helped shape this ecosystem through your ideas, expertise, and participation.ISMG Communities builds on that foundation, creating a year-round way to stay connected to relevant conversations, useful insights, and meaningful opportunities to contribute.Help shape what comes next.
Why ISMG Communities
Because the best cybersecurity conversations should not end when the event ends.
The strongest insights often come after the session, through follow-up questions, field lessons, expert perspectives, and real challenges still being solved.
ISMG Communities is designed to make those conversations more consistent, useful, and accessible year-round, giving cybersecurity professionals a dedicated way to stay closer to the ideas, peers, experts, and opportunities that matter most.
Built around the people moving cybersecurity forward.
Trusted ecosystem
Built on ISMG’s global events, media, education, Studio, and expert-led programming.
Year-round connection
Designed to continue valuable conversations beyond event days.
Focused communities
Organized around the areas where cybersecurity practitioners, leaders, and experts need deeper engagement.
Shaped by members
Your interests, challenges, and input help guide the topics, formats, and opportunities ahead.
Our Communities
ISMG Communities begins with five focused communities built around areas where ISMG already brings together trusted cybersecurity audiences.
Nullcon
For offensive security practitioners, researchers, trainers, CTF participants, technical contributors, and builders connected to the Nullcon ecosystem.
What you can expect: Technical discussions, research-led themes, contributor opportunities, learning pathways, AMAs, challenges, and event-connected updates.
Explore NullconHardwear.io
For hardware, firmware, embedded systems, IoT, device security, silicon, side-channel, and physical security specialists.
What you can expect: Specialist technical insight, research conversations, hands-on themes, expert sessions, training pathways, and opportunities to stay connected to the hardware security ecosystem.
Explore Hardwear.ioOT
For professionals working across operational technology, industrial environments, critical infrastructure, cyber-physical systems, resilience, and risk.
What you can expect: Practical OT insights, peer learning, expert-led briefings, operational risk conversations, relevant resources, and community-led topic input.
Explore OTManufacturing
For leaders and practitioners focused on manufacturing environments, production operations, IT/OT convergence, supply chain exposure, industrial resilience, and sector-specific cyber risk.
What you can expect: Manufacturing-focused cyber insights, operational resilience discussions, peer perspectives, sector-specific updates, and opportunities to shape future programming.
Explore ManufacturingAdvisory
For trusted speakers, trainers, moderators, subject matter experts, and contributors who help shape ISMG programming, education, editorial conversations, and thought leadership.
What you can expect: Opportunities to contribute expertise, shape conversations, advise on topics, participate in expert-led programming, and stay connected to the broader ISMG ecosystem.
Explore AdvisoryWays to Participate
You can participate by telling us:
- topics that matter most to you
- challenges you want discussed
- formats you would attend
- experts or peers you want to hear from
- ways you may want to contribute
- your location and preferred opportunities
What members
can expect
Relevant insights
Stay closer to the topics, trends, and conversations shaping your area of cybersecurity.
Expert-led conversations
Join selected AMAs, briefings, discussions, and expert-led sessions connected to your interests.
A voice in the agenda
Share the topics, challenges, and questions you want to see explored next.
Pathways to contribute
Raise your hand to speak, write, mentor, moderate, train, host, or participate.
Connections beyond events
Stay connected to trusted peers, experts, and the wider ISMG ecosystem year-round.
Relevant opportunities
Discover learning, event, media, Studio, executive, or contributor pathways where applicable.
How It Works
Share Your Interests
Tell us which community you're connected to, what topics interest you, and how you'd like to engage.
Help Shape the Agenda
Your input helps guide future topics, contributors, experiences, formats, and community initiatives.
Stay Connected Year-Round
Receive relevant updates, invitations, industry insights, and opportunities tailored to your interests.
Contribute Where Relevant
Members may be considered for speaking opportunities, mentoring, advisory groups, writing, local events, and expert sessions.
Frequently Asked Questions
ISMG Communities is designed for professionals connected to ISMG’s cybersecurity ecosystem, including practitioners, leaders, researchers, speakers, trainers, contributors, and emerging talent across focused community areas.
ISMG Communities is built around audiences already connected to ISMG through events, trainings, sessions, media, contributors, and expert programming. As the communities grow, relevant professionals may be invited or considered based on their interests, experience, and fit.
You may receive relevant updates, topic invitations, community touchpoints, learning recommendations, event-related opportunities, or contributor pathways based on your interests and selected community.
Yes. Members who are interested in contributing can indicate that in the form. Relevant opportunities may include speaking, writing, mentoring, moderating, training, local hosting, or participating in expert-led discussions.
Some updates and resources may be broadly available, while certain sessions, contributor opportunities, advisory roles, or executive pathways may be curated based on relevance, expertise, seniority, or contribution fit.
You can express interest in one or more of the following communities: Nullcon, Hardwear.io, OT, Manufacturing, and Advisory.