Brandon Evans

Brandon Evans serves as Senior Instructor at the SANS Institute and Partner at Cyverity, where he brings advanced cloud-security and DevSecOps expertise to global learners. He is the lead author of SEC510: Cloud Security Engineering and Controls and a key contributor to SEC540: Cloud Native Security and DevSecOps Automation, equipping practitioners to defend modern, multicloud environments with precision and hands-on mastery.

Brandon’s career began in software engineering, building core products at startups and large enterprises before pivoting toward security. He previously led the secure-development training program at Zoom Video Communications and now consults broadly on multicloud and hybrid security for large workloads. His engineering background and shift into application security underpin the labs in the course. In his class, students move from cloud architecture to secure code patterns, infrastructure as code, and DevSecOps automation under his guidance.