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About The Author

Dave Larson is the Chief Operating Officer of Corero Network Security.
He is responsible for directing the Corero technology strategy as the
company continues to invest in its next phase of growth; providing next
generation DDoS attack and cyber threat defense solutions for the
Service Provider and Hosting Provider segments.

Larson brings over 20 years of experience in the network security, data
communication, and data center infrastructure industries. Most recently,
Larson served as Chief Technology Officer for HP Networking and Vice President of the HP
Networking Advanced Technology Group. In this role he was responsible for creating the long-
term technology vision and strategy for HP Networking across a variety of product divisions and
geographies.
Larson was instrumental in establishing HP’s leadership in SDN including driving the creation of
the OpenDaylight open-source SDN controller initiative as one of the founding executive
sponsors of that consortium, along with technology leaders that included Cisco, IBM, NEC,
Citrix and the Linux Foundation.

Under Larson’s leadership, HP created the category for SDN security applications for
enterprises as evidenced by the HP Network Protector SDN Application, which combines IP-
reputation DNS security with HP’s Virtual Application Networks SDN Controller to deliver botnet
command-and-control and malware mitigation at the first touch point in the Ethernet access
layer. Prior to that, he served as Chief Technologist for security and routing, and was a senior
member of the Advanced Technology Group within HP Networking.

Prior to HP, Larson was Vice-President of Integrated Product Strategy for TippingPoint, where
he was instrumental in transitioning the business to develop a line of Next-Generation Firewalls
and vice-president of Security Product Line Management for 3Com Corporation where he
defined global security products strategy across R&D development facilities in the U.S., U.K.,
and China.

Larson has also held senior marketing and product roles with Tizor Systems, Sandburst
Corporation and Xedia Corporation. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from
Gordon College in Wenham, Mass.

Dave can be reached online at LinkedIn and at our company website https://www.corero.com/.

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