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About Mr. Pingree
Lawrence Pingree has been an active member of the Information Security industry for over 12 years. He has consulted for large financial institutions, corporations and government entities on technologies ranging from firewalls, intrusion detection, networks, system penetration, risk management and eDiscovery. He served as a Chief Security Architect at both Peoplesoft and Netscreen. He is currently an active member of the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) of Silicon Valley as well as the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP).

Lawrence has participated as a founding board member of the Digital Forensics Association where he is serving as Vice President and is a published author. In his spare time enjoys currency trading, hiking, nature and performance cars, he’s especially fond of the Lotus and Lamborghini brands.

== History Of Lawrence Pingree ==
Born July 17th 1975 at Stanford University hospital, Lawrence Pingree, Author of the books "CCSA Study Guide" by McGraw hill and "The Managers Guide to Becoming Great". Larry grew up for the first 5 years of his life in Hollister, CA with his father Gerald Pingree and mother Cheryl Pingree. At age 5, Larry moved to Bishop, CA with his mother and sister Lorilyn Pingree During which time he visited his father each summer for a month during the summer school vacation. At age 12, Larry moved south to Lakeside, CA near San Diego and later moved to Temecula,CA.

== His Career ==
He was invited by a friend Steven Britton also of Lakeside, CA to work for his brother at a small Internet company called Inland Internet. Larry started his career as a support technician at Inland, he enjoyed the work so much that he decided to work with computers as a career. Inland went through some financial issues and Larry was laid off shortly after, but before he quit he was talking to one of Inland's customers who worked as a Vice President of Hydro-Flow filtration systems. Larry worked a deal to start an Internet Service Provider with the owners of then Hydro-Flow which gave rise to the now EZ2 Network.

Later, after his mother became ill, he moved south back to San Diego and started working at Netpartners, which at the time was the single largest computer security vendor for Borderware. Borderware was an application gateway product that used proxy technology. At the time, proxy technology was thought to be superior due to the constraints to common protocols and standards. Netpartners later became Websense, the top web filtering company. Larry was approached by a company called SecureIT, SecureIT was another security company which focused on training on computer security related products and services. Larry was the third engineer on staff to service and train the west coast of the United States, but often found himself going all over the USA. Later, SecureIT was bought by VeriSign for a heafty sum of around 600 million dollars (mostly owned by Jay Chaudrey). Jay Chaudrey later became a household name in Atlanta Georgia due to the wealth he obtained from the sale of SecureIT to VeriSign.

When his mother died, Larry had worked long and hard on the road for VeriSign, lacking the comfort of being able to go home each day. He decided that he needed to settle down a bit and try and have a home life, so he looked for a job and low and behold there were plenty of jobs in Silicon Valley. Larry interviewed with a newly acquired company called Ipsilon Networks which specialized in a hardware platform for the Check Point firewall-1 product. He enjoyed working there in their support department as a 3rd level escalation engineer.

During his tenure at Nokia, Larry was approached by a company called AvantGo, a company specializing in a browser for the palm pilot. At the time, the palm was thought of as the PC on the go. AvantGo sadly had to lay off 75% of its workforce due to palm not becoming the large success that was envisioned. Larry went to a small company called Siegeworks which was later acquired by Fishnet . Siegeworks was a well known security products VAR and serviced many large companies in Silicon Valley. Larry was on site at PeopleSoft, he was offered a position to architect and maintain the company's security infrastructure. At the time, many large VARs were failing so larry thought it would be best to move to another company so he accepted.

After being at PeopleSoft for over a year, he was laid off along with many others in the organization during the down years after the dot com bust. He interviewed and was accepted at NetScreen, Netscreen was the premier high speed firewall that used new asic based technology. ASIC based networking products perform at higher rates because the decision making ability was in hardware and not processed in software. Netscreen was bought by Juniper Networks. When Juniper bought Netscreen, approximately 90% of IT was laid off, he transferred into an Engineering position for a time and later decided the company was not the best fit for him. Larry knew Joshua Mauk, a very nice man that he worked for at Peoplesoft, was now working for Safeway. Larry quickly hired on to Safeway and enjoyed his work immensely.

Today, Lawrence is working in Competitive Marketing at McAfee and enjoying his job.