HACKS AND HOPS 2025

SPONSORSHIPS

OSTRA

As Your Trusted Cybersecurity Team, Ostra makes cybersecurity simple and accessible to businesses of all sizes. 

Ostra provides its partners and their clients with multi-layered, comprehensive, and fully managed Security as a Service. Ostra’s proprietary solutions combine Fortune 100-caliber tools, tech, and talent to ensure threats are not only detected and hunted, but also fully remediated. 

With a mission to simplify cybersecurity for small to mid-sized businesses, Ostra believes everyone deserves best-in-class data protection—not just big business.

RED CANARY

Red Canary is a leader in managed detection and response (MDR). We serve companies of every size and industry, focusing on finding and stopping threats before they can have a negative impact.

As the security ally for nearly 1,000 organizations, we provide MDR across our customers’ cloud workloads, identities, SaaS applications, networks, and endpoints.

SECRETCON

SecretCon is a Minnesota technology, Cybersecurity Summit, and Hacker Conference. Everyone is welcome!

We cover exciting topics on Technology, Cybersecurity, Artifical Intelligence, & Privacy.

This is the Security Conference you’ve been looking for! Socialize with other Minneapolis – Saint Paul hobbyists and professionals.

SENTINELONE

SentinelOne (NYSE:S) is the world’s most advanced, autonomous AI-powered cybersecurity platform.

Built on the first unified Data Lake, SentinelOne empowers the world to run securely by creating intelligent, data-driven systems that think for themselves, stay ahead of complexity and risk, and evolve on their own.

Leading enterprises around the world trust SentinelOne to Secure Tomorrow™.

MSP Business Journal

Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal (MSPBJ) is a credible news source for influential business leaders in Minneapolis/St.Paul.

Whether through exclusive content, premium events, or tailored advertising, our platform ensures you connect with the change-makers driving economic growth in the region.

NON PROFITS

WiCyS

Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS) is the only non-profit membership organization with a national reach that is dedicated to bringing together women in cybersecurity from academia, research and industry to share knowledge, experience, networking and mentoring.

WiCyS helps build a strong cybersecurity workforce with gender equality by facilitating recruitment, retention and advancement for women in the field. The initiative was created through an NSF grant (Award #1303441) by Dr. Ambareen Siraj at Tennessee Tech University six years ago, and has grown into a wonderful alliance among academia, government and industry.

WiCyS MN was formed in 2019 and has approximately 150 members and hosts several networking events throughout the year in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area.