The Nordic cybersecurity conference and exhibition at the Helsinki Expo and Convention Centre, where Finnish and Nordic public and private security leadership meet on national resilience, operational technology risk and compliance.
Cyber Security Nordic is the annual cybersecurity conference and exhibition organised by Messukeskus, the Helsinki Expo and Convention Centre, held on 28 and 29 October 2026. It combines a two-day conference programme with a partner exhibition, a Hacker's Corner and the Finnish Infosec Seminar run with Traficom, the national transport and communications agency. The 2025 edition drew more than 2,600 visitors across the two days. The framing announced for the current cycle is politics, economy, reality and the future of cybersecurity, under the working line "Staying Ahead of the Breach".
The event serves a security market with a specific geopolitical position. Finland joined NATO in 2023, shares a long border with Russia, and treats critical infrastructure protection as a national continuity question rather than an IT budget line. Cyber Security Nordic reflects that: the programme mixes commercial security topics with civil preparedness, hybrid threats and public-private coordination, and government officials speak alongside vendors. For companies selling into the Nordics, it is the single densest gathering of Finnish and regional buyers in the year.
Two days of keynotes and panels form the backbone, with an exhibition of industry partners running alongside. Two attached formats give the event its character: the Hacker's Corner, which brings hands-on offensive and defensive demonstration to a business audience, and the Traficom Finnish Infosec Seminar, which anchors the national regulatory conversation inside the commercial event. Recurring subjects include compliance, operational technology risk and attack prevention.
Cyber Security Nordic is regional by design. It does not compete on scale with it-sa in Nuremberg or Infosecurity Europe in London, and it is not trying to. Its value is concentration: if the target market is Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark or the Baltic states, this is where those buyers are, in a language and a threat framing that a pan-European show does not reproduce.
The main programme runs in English to serve the Nordic and international audience. The attached Traficom Finnish Infosec Seminar is the Finnish-language element.
Conference-led, with an exhibition of partners attached. The two-day speaking programme is the reason people come; the floor supports it.
Messukeskus is Finland's main exhibition and convention operator and runs Cyber Security Nordic in its own venue, programming the event rather than hosting a third-party show.
The Nordic region's own security conference, where national resilience is discussed with a directness that comes from sharing a 1,300 kilometre border with Russia.
Registration runs through the official event website. The organiser did not publish 2026 ticket tiers at the verification date; previous editions have used a paid conference pass with early-bird pricing and separate rates for public sector attendees. Partner and exhibition packages are quoted by Messukeskus.
28 and 29 October 2026 at the Helsinki Expo and Convention Centre, Helsinki, Finland.
More than 2,600 visitors attended the two-day 2025 edition, according to the organiser. It is a mid-sized conference, not a mass-market trade fair.
A dedicated area within the event for hands-on security demonstrations, aimed at making offensive and defensive technique legible to a business audience.
| Official website | https://cybersecuritynordic.messukeskus.com/ |
| Venue | https://messukeskus.com/en/ |