HuFiCon becomes the Signal Security Summit, as the event grows beyond its first home

New Name. Same Community. Bigger Ambition.

At SoSafe, no two days are quite alike. We work on a problem that keeps changing, and staying useful to our customers has meant changing with it. Our flagship security conference, and its name, belong to that forward pull as much as anything else.

Human Firewall Conference, Europe’s leading cybersecurity event focused on the human factor, is becoming the Signal Security Summit this year.

“Human Firewall” came out of a security vocabulary built around last lines of defence. Since then, SoSafe has grown into something more adaptive, built around learning from behaviour, changing threats and the context around both. 

We now speak less in terms of fortification and more in terms of movement. The further SoSafe moved in that direction, the less the old name felt like it belonged. We believe the new story will feel more true to your work. We hope you feel the same.

Security teams spend a lot of time sorting through noise: alerts, anomalies and false positives that may or may not matter. The challenge is knowing what to pay attention to, and when. A signal helps narrow the field. It tells you where to look before an incident becomes a headline.

That is the thinking behind the Signal Security Summit. The event is built on the belief that what one person learns should not stop with them. That might be peer insight that saves time, or research that helps security leaders decide what to focus on next.

That is also where the community matters. Signal Security Summit is not only about what happens on stage, but what gets shared across the room and carried back into the work. Resilience is hard to build alone, and part of the value lies in making sure insight does not stop with the people who found it first.

That leads to this year’s theme, Becoming Resilient, Together. Resilience is easy to talk about and harder to define. Here, by contrast, it points to something very specific. 

Resilience is the quality of a decision made under pressure. The way teams respond when they have to act without much warning. The habits organisations build to hold through change. This year’s programme follows that line, from the threat landscape and behaviour to organisational resilience and the pressure security leaders carry with them.

You can see that in the programme too. The agenda explores how resilience holds up when it is tested, whether security habits last beyond the training room, what organisations learn under pressure, and why mental and emotional stamina now deserve more attention in the security conversation. Put that way, Signal Security Summit feels less like a rebrand and more like the name the conference has grown into. 
On 18 November 2026, the Cologne edition returns for its fifth year, and for the first time as Signal Security Summit | by SoSafe. It will also be the biggest edition yet, with more than 1,200 attendees, 35+ speakers, six stages and breakout rooms, and 20+ sessions (and that’s not all.)

Join us in Cologne on 18 November 2026 for Signal Security Summit | by SoSafe

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The conference is also coming to Paris. As SoSafe Signal x Paris, the event will open in a new city with a format built for more deliberate conversation and closer exchange. Cologne remains the flagship. Paris gives the summit a second setting, but it also gives security leaders in France something more local, and a first version of ex-HuFiCon closer to their own context.

Join us in Paris on 28 May 2026 for the first SoSafe Signal x Paris

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At a past HuFiCon, author Frank Schätzing told us, “Talking with such an audience gives you a good feeling that we can change things.” That feeling has stayed with the event. It is part of why people keep coming back, and part of why the conference has grown beyond a single room, a single city, or a single edition.
What began as HuFiCon has grown into an event with a stronger identity, a broader reach and a better understanding of the conversations it wants to host. Signal Security Summit carries that forward. It keeps what made the event worth returning to, while giving it a name that feels more ready for what comes next in Cologne, and now beyond it too.