# Billington CyberSecurity Summit **Entity class:** Annual government-industry cybersecurity summit **Organizer:** [[wiki/Billington CyberSecurity|Billington CyberSecurity]] **As of:** 2026-09-23 ## Definition The **Billington CyberSecurity Summit** is a large Washington-area meeting of senior civilian, defense, intelligence, and industry cybersecurity leaders. The 2026 program described more than 3,000 attendees, more than 250 speakers, and over 50 sessions. Its role is to connect federal defensive strategy and mission requirements with the companies that build identity, cloud, zero-trust, threat-intelligence, incident-response, and critical-infrastructure systems. In this collection, the summit is a visible junction where [[wiki/Cyberwarfare|cybersecurity]] and [[wiki/Counterterrorism|counterterrorism]] meet through the protection of shared digital infrastructure. ## Relationships - **organizer:** [[wiki/Billington CyberSecurity|Billington CyberSecurity]]. - **event ecosystem:** [[wiki/Intelligence and Defense Conferences|Intelligence and Defense Conferences]]. - **collection route:** [[collections/Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment|Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [Billington CyberSecurity Summit](https://billingtoncybersummit.com/) - [Billington — about the summit](https://billingtoncybersummit.com/about-summit)