Larry Walsh is one of the most recognizable figures in the IT channel and security communities. He is an expert in security technologies and thought leader in reseller channels and managed services. As vice president and group publisher of Ziff Davis Enterprise's Channel Insider, Walsh oversees editorial, face-to-face events, virtual events, research and marketing.

Prior to his appointment to Channel Insider, Walsh was the editor of Baseline Magazine, another Ziff Davis Enterprise publication, where he oversaw online and print editorial, and transformed the magazine into a unique business-technology decision making publication. Prior to joining Ziff Davis Enterprise, Walsh was the editor of VARBusiness and GovernmentVAR magazines, where he developed innovative new models for developing and managing channels, and ideas for how solution providers can achieve higher degrees of success. Under his leadership, VARBusiness won several awards, and Walsh personally won awards for feature and column writing. Before channels, Walsh was the editor of the award-winning Information Security Magazine, where he became widely known as one of the foremost experts on emerging security technologies, policies and processes. At Information Security, Walsh earned national accolades for his probing expose on Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing initiative.

Walsh started his journalism career as a newspaper reporter and editor in Greater Boston, having held various editorial roles at the Boston Globe, Salem Evening News, The Enterprise and MetroWest Daily News. During his newspaper days, Walsh won several awards for editing and writing on diverse topics ranging from religious issues to political scandals. In 1997, Walsh lead a team of reporters that broke several national reports on teen drug abuse, which earned his newspaper, the Woburn Advocate, the New England Newspaper of the Year award.

Walsh is a graduate of Suffolk University in Boston. He served in the U.S. Army in the late 1980s, specializing in communications and security. He earned several military awards and accolades, and was the distinguished leadership graduate of the 7th Army Non-Commissioned Officers Academy in Bad Tolz, Germany, and recipient of the General Douglas MacArthur Leadership Award. Walsh is based in Manhattan.