Secure360 2025: Celebrating a Legacy

A special time was had this year at Secure360’s 20^th anniversary conference. Thank you for joining our community for two or three days of learning and connecting, made possible through UMSA staff, volunteers, speakers, sponsors and of course, you, the attendees. Let’s reflect on Secure360 2025:

What was new this year?

• Pre-conference sessions offered on Tuesday, May 13
• Keynote Rachel Tobac surprised us with a live deepfake on stage.
• Attendees tested their lock-picking skills with TOOOL
• Delicious 20^th anniversary cupcakes featured on Day 1
• We blasted into the past with the Secure360 history scrapbook

Conference Statistics

• 677 attendees
  • Including 50+ student registrants
• 60+ sponsors, exhibitors & affiliates
• 80+ breakout sessions
• $7,396+ dollars raised for the UMSA Scholarship Foundation
  • Counting silent auction funds raised

What you’ve said so far about Secure360 2025…

• “I have attended over a dozen Secure360 conferences, and each one has been valuable for my career and absolutely enjoyable. UMSA has had a significant impact on building a first-class security community in the upper midwest.”​
• “I love coming to this conference. It is great to see so many familiar faces, speaker caliber is great, and it validates me to feel that I belong to something doing great things to support me and others in this field.” ​

Conference photos and resources available!

Say cheese! The conference photos are available here. Thank you Coppersmith Photography for capturing our 20^th.

Speaker slides from the conference are available on the conference app if the speaker chose to submit. If you are looking for a certain slide deck or if you have any questions with a specific session, please contact info@umsafoundation.org.

Congratulations to our Aspiring Cybersecurity and Risk Professionals

• Congratulations to our 2025 Scholarship winners. Check out our latest blog post to learn about these individuals.
  • $3,000 Winners
    • Thomas Mamo, Ansley Nats, Ryker Lee, Lac Nguyen
  • $1,000 Winners
    • Mari Hauschildt, Tiya Nelson, Aakriti Neupane, Gemachis Gadissa, Lauryn Brynjulson, Rotimi Mogaji, Lillian Steele

“I cannot even begin to express what this means to me – I was jumping for joy when I found out that I was worthy enough to be selected for a cybersecurity based award. Being awarded this scholarship tells me that I am capable of pursuing cybersecurity. Thank you, UMSA, for choosing me as one of your recipients of your scholarship. I am extremely grateful for all of the opportunities this funding will give me in college. Your faith in what I can achieve does wonders for my self esteem, and I cannot wait to show you what I can do in the future. “

-Lauryn Brynjulson, University of North Dakota, 2025 Scholarship Recipient

 

Certificates of Attendance

Check your inbox or log into the conference app and navigate to “Certificates” to download your unique certificate of attendance that includes an agenda of your scanned sessions from the event. Please email info@umsafoundation.org with any questions.

Download the generic attendance certificates here:

• Wednesday Certificate 
• Thursday Certificate

Thank you, CrowdStrike and sponsors

We would like to SHOUT OUT our Platinum sponsor, CrowdStrike! For a full list of sponsors, check out the bottom of the home page.

Also, don’t forget to revisit the variety of blog posts that our 2025 sponsors have and will share. Check out this awesome content at https://umsafoundation.org/news. 

See you in 2026 – stay tuned here until May 13-14, 2026:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/upper-midwest-security-alliance/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secure360/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/Secure360
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/secure360_mn/