Edwin Kwan is a DevSecOps advocate and strong believer in having a developer focused approached towards embedding security into the software development life cycle. Trained as a software engineer, he transitioned into security and now heads up the application security and security advisory teams at an Australian financial services company.
Edwin has also presented at several events, including RSA, AISA, AllDayDevOps, AppSec Day, OWASP and DevSecOps Leadership Forums.
Edwin is also a contributing journalist for the It’s 5:05 Podcast, a daily podcast on open source and cybersecurity news,
Notable Speaking Engagements
- 2023 – Judge for Australia’s Got Tech Talent
- 2023 – Guest on Secured by Galah Cyber Podcast
- 2023 – AppSec Australia Meetup (Sydney)
- 2023 – UNSW Guest Lecture (Sydney)
- 2023 – CISO Sydney (Sydney)
- 2022 – All Day DevOps (Virtual)
- 2022 – OWASP Lagos Chapter (Virtual)
- 2022 – DevSecOps Leadership Forum (Sydney, Melbourne and Singapore)
- 2022 – UNSW Guest lecturer (Virtual)
- 2021 – All Day DevOps (Virtual)
- 2021 – OWASP 20th Anniversary (Virtual)
- 2021 – RSA Confernce (Virtual)
- 2020 – All Day DevOps (Virtual)
- 2020 – Curtin University Guest Lecturer (Cyber Crime and Security Enhanced Programming) (Virtual)
- 2020 – RSA Conference Asia Pacific & Japan (Virtual)
- 2020 – DevSecOps Leadership Forum (Virtual)
- 2020 – SWARM Conference (Las Vegas)
- 2019 – AISA Perth Conference (Perth)
- 2019 – All Day DevOps (Virtual)
- 2019 – AppSecDay (Melbourne)
- 2019 – DevSecOps Leadership Forum (Sydney and Melbourne)
- 2019 – RSA Conference Asia Pacific & Japan (Singapore)
- 2019 – Nexus User Conference (Virtual)
- 2018 – DBS AppSecCon (Singapore)
- 2018 – All Day DevOps (Virtual)
- 2018 – DevSecOps Leadership Forum (Sydney and Melbourne)
- 2018 – RSA Conference Asia Pacific & Japan (Singapore)
- 2017 – All Day DevOps (Virtual)
- 2017 – AppSecDay (Melbourne)
- 2017 – RSA Conference Asia Pacific & Japan (Singapore)
Notable Publications
- 2023 – 5 Steps for Securing Your Software Supply Chain (Enterprise Security Magazine)
- 2023 – 5 Steps for Securing Your Software Supply Chain (CIO Review APAC)
- 2023 – 5 Steps for Securing Your Software Supply Chain (RSA Editorial)
- 2020 – Your Application Is Mostly Written By Strangers (CIO Advisor)
- 2020 – Your Application Is Mostly Written By Strangers (RSA Editoral)
- 2018 – Epic Failures in DevSecOps (Book)