Donald M. Edwards
Accelerating business with privacy and security by design
As a life-long technologist, Donald's interest and experience spans many different areas of the high-tech industry, from electronics all the way up the hardware and software stack. Now, as a security and privacy leader, he draws on that diverse background to apply solid design and risk management principles to help secure the whole organisation - people, process, and technology.
Donald has over 20 years of professional experience in information technology, always with a slant toward data protection and incident handling. Originally educated in electrical and computer engineering, he holds a Bachelor of Science in IT security. Over the years he has held numerous technical certifications, including being a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).
He frequently gives talks on security and privacy to public and private audiences with varying degrees of technical content, tailored for the group's interest and background. In particular, Donald has a strong commitment to advancing the security and privacy professions by educating people from diverse backgrounds and encouraging them to participate - every person has an unique perspective and this industry, more than most, needs to improve its inclusiveness.
Donald's professional background includes nearly every part of running an IT-centric company. Coming from a deep technical background, he has held individual contributor and management roles with global scope and covering: network design and management, client and server deployment, software development, infrastructure and application security, as well as governance, risk, and compliance.
Most of Donald's speaking engagements approach security and privacy from a top-down, organisational management perspective, since that is where the majority of his work is focused. He also stays fairly current on networking and deployment strategies in Amazon Web Services (AWS) and occasionally gives talks and live demonstrations of practical application of security principles in the cloud.
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