Edward Bonver is a Senior Software QA Engineer on Symantec's Product Security Team. He works with QA professionals across Symantec in order to improve the company's security testing practices, including methodologies, procedures, and tools. Edward also teaches Secure Coding and Security Testing classes for Symantec engineers, as well as leading the Symantec QA Security Task Force, which he founded.

Edward came to Symantec with a strong background in development - his experience includes working at Xerox, Digital Equipment Corporation, and Compaq, where he worked in Embedded & Real-time OS development. He has also worked for several smaller networking companies, porting and implementing networking protocols from scratch.

Edward has a Masters degree in Computer Science from California State University, Northridge, and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the Rochester Institute of Technology, as well as a number of security certifications, such as CISSP and Security+.