ESSA Security Events:

ESSA General Assembly 2025

The biggest conference on Safes and Vaults in Europe will be held on 5 and 6 November 2025 - the international secure storage industry will meet again in several sessions to discuss the newest topics of our industry, from battery storage to a 2025 assessment of the lifetime of safes.

Banks and Savings Banks Day

The first ESSA banking day at the Security in Essen was one of the most visited events on the security fair. Close to 100 participants attended the event on Thursday, 19 September 2024.

Our next banking day will be held in September 2026.

More information can be found here.

ESSA - The International Security Association.

Leader of the Physical Security Industry.

ESSA e.V. is the leading international association of the physical security industry. The members include manufacturers, distributors, service companies and consultants of the high security industry including safes, data rooms, ATMs, high security locks, vaults, data cabinets, security doors etc.

Reasons for joining ESSA

1. Information from the industry

To not give hints to burglars information on high security products and their industry is rare. ESSA is the best information source for the industry. ESSA gives its members monthly in-depth updates from the industry including new laws, standards, statistics and security events. Knowing changing policies due to constantly new sustainability and security laws is today a must for leading companies.

2. Connection to the industry

ESSA connects all groups of representatives of the security industry – dealers, manufacturers, insurance companies, authorities and credit institutions – and thus clearly stands out from all other presently existing associations and their concepts. At the for ESSA members free-of-charge yearly security event in November, CEOs from across the globe meet in Frankfurt to inform themselves on current market topics.

3. Technical background on products of the industry

ESSA members receive White Papers, studies and technical backgrounds. This Information is only available to ESSA members. Through this members have a market advantage: members receive information on changing market requirements very early and can therefore re-design their products faster than others.

4. Speaker for the industry