SCHUTZWERK IS SPONSORING ELBSIDES 2026

The Elbsides2026Conference will take place at the Hotel Hafen Hamburg on 5 June 2026. We are glad to support the conference once again as a Bronze Sponsor. It is the fourth time we have backed Elbsides – following the first Hamburg BSides event in 2019 and the conferences in 2024 and 2025.

Elbsides is the Hamburg edition of the worldwide SecurityBSidescommunity – a volunteer-driven framework for independent IT security conferences that emerged in 2009 and now spans events in numerous cities and countries. The name combines the BSides idea with Hamburg’s river Elbe. Accordingly, Elbsides is a community-organized conference: a volunteer team puts a great deal of time and dedication into preparing it, and attendance is free of charge. As a security company with an office in Hamburg, we are glad to help support this initiative and to make a small contribution to networking and professional development in the industry. The driving force behind the event is the volunteers – to whom our sincere thanks are due.

Our Managing Director, Michael Schaefer, supported Elbsides 2026 as a member of the program committee, helping to review and select the contributions. This editorial work is always a collaborative effort of many hands, and we are pleased to be able to contribute to it.

This year’s program features 14 technical talks alongside two keynotes. The conference opens with Natalie Kilber on readiness for post-quantum cryptography, and closes with Brian Hein and Constantin Jacob on the evolution of threat intelligence. Topics range from quantum cryptography and IoT vulnerabilities to EDR evasion, NIS-2, and the use of AI in security.

New this year: workshops

For the first time, Elbsides is complemented by a workshopprogram . The workshops take place on 4 June 2026 – the day before the conference – at a separate venue provided by Jungheinrich AG. They are offered independently of the conference and require a separate ticket. The line-up includes:

• Secure Development Lifecycle Applied (Lisi Hocke) – integrating security into everyday development work in a hands-on way, from threat modeling and secure coding to security testing.
• Let’s Make Hackers Cry… With Deception (John Strand) – hands-on labs on detecting and halting attackers using deception techniques.
• Understanding Modern Application Security – Training Update 2026 (Juliane Reimann, Michael Helwig) – a full-day overview of modern application security, from cloud-native architectures and APIs to AI-assisted development.
• MacOS Investigation Workshop (Evgen Blohm) – forensic analysis of macOS systems, from disk imaging to artifact investigation.
• Exploiting and Securing AI Applications on AWS (Anne Stein, Rebecca Burnside, Robert von Massow) – an interactive workshop on prompt injection and secure AI architecture on AWS.

We are looking forward to engaging talks, the expanded workshop offering, and above all to the personal exchange on site.