:: Date: Friday, March 12
:: Time: 12:30pm
:: Title: The Making of the CCDC Badge

Larry is the Manager for Information Services Security, Disaster Recovery and Identity Management at a mid-sized healthcare organization in New England. In the last 13 years in the computer industry, Larry has become a jack of all trades; PC repair, Network Engineering, Web Design, Non-Linear Audio and Video production and Computer Security. Larry is also gainfully employed as a Penetration Tester/Ethical Hacker with PaulDotCom Enterprises, and leads the research efforts in many areas, including projects such as “Evil” USB thumb drives, hiding rogue access points, and tinkering with wireless, RFID, Cellular SIM cards and metadata. Together Paul and Larry co-authored “Linksys WRT54G Ultimate Hacking” from Syngress Publishing, and Larry has also presented at Shmoocon 4 and DEFCON 16, and was a contributing author to “How to Cheat at Configuring Open Source Security Tools” and “Wireshark and Ethereal” from Syngress Publishing. A graduate of Roger Williams University in Computer Information Systems, Larry is currently exploring his options for graduate education. In addition to his industry experience, Larry is also a Security Evangelist and co-host for the PaulDotCom Security Weekly podcast. More of Larry’s writing, guides and rants can be found on his blog and the SANS Reading Room.