Ken Associates
A private cybersecurity advisory practice in Taiwan, serving a select clientele.
Practice
Ken Associates advises organizations on the strategic dimensions of cybersecurity: product security, vulnerability response, and cloud security governance. The firm's work tends to concentrate where technical, regulatory, and operational risks meet. Such matters typically draw the direct attention of a client's executive leadership and board.
Engagements typically begin with an assessment of an organization's current security posture against the standards relevant to its industry and jurisdiction, followed by a remediation program and the design of durable governance structures. The firm accepts a small number of new engagements each year.
Principal
Ken Lee is the Managing Principal of Ken Associates LLC. He has worked in product and cloud security for more than a decade, founding Synology's Product Security Incident Response Team and its public bug bounty program, and leading that organization to become Taiwan's first PSIRT member of the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams.
He serves on the program committees of the 36th Annual FIRST Conference and CVE/FIRST VulnCon 2026, and has spoken at FIRST, HITCON, CYBERSEC, and VXCON. Five United States patents recognize his original technical work.
Approach
Discretion
The work is confidential by default. The Principal conducts every engagement.
Selectivity
A small client roster permits unhurried attention. The firm engages only where it can offer that level of attention.
Independence
The firm accepts no vendor commissions and recommends no product, service, or platform in which it holds a financial interest.
Contact
The firm welcomes inquiries at contact@ken.associates. Each inquiry receives personal review, and a response generally follows within five working days.