Alexander Kent (Alex) is director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Advanced Computing Solutions Program that is chartered with solving current and forward-looking cyber security problems with a cross-disciplinary and applied R&D emphasis. Previously, as deputy division leader for LANL's computing, telecommunications, and networking organization Alex was responsible for overseeing the Laboratory's site-wide classified and unclassified environments, services and security including LANL's computer incident response capability. A number of high-impact, successful LANL cyber security projects have been lead and developed by Alex, including an integrated physical-cyber security protection system, a USB port protection system, a heterogeneous network host quarantine system, and a scalable two- factor authentication system. Personal research and technical focus areas include identity management and authentication methods, statistical anomaly and change detection, firewall proxies, and voice over IP. Alex has been a member of the technical staff at LANL since 1997. He is also an adjunct staff researcher with the Institute for Defense Analysis at the Center for Computing Sciences. Alex has been recognized with two distinguished performance awards for his various technical contributions and has received a patent for work in network authentication. Education: BS Computer Science, New Mexico Tech; MS Computer Science, New Mexico Tech; Executive MBA, University of New Mexico.