Lawrence Hughes is a computer security expert with more than 35 years of experience in creating and developing security products. He was the co-founder of CipherTrust (along with Jay Chaudhry), which became the leading company in E-mail security, including corporate Anti-Spam. In 2006, CipherTrust was sold to SecureComputing for $273M. SecureComputing was later bought by McAfee, which is now part of Intel. He is the Founder, Chairman, CTO of InfoWeapons in Cebu, Philippines and Chairman & CTO at DualStak Networks, Sdn. Bhd. in Malaysia. These companies are creating a new line of secure Internet appliances that implement critical network infrastructure.and fully support IPv6.
Overall, his specialties include: creation of new companies, niche analysis and product creation, Internet security, cryptography, PKI, IPv6, E-mail, DNS, etc.