Alexander Kent

Alexander Kent (Alex) is the acting program director for Cyber Systems at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) chartered with developing a larger, more comprehensive cyber program at the Laboratory. Previously he was the director of the LANL’s Advanced Computing Solutions (ACS) Program focused on solving current and forward-looking cyber security problems with a cross-disciplinary and applied R&D emphasis. Prior to ACS, as deputy division leader over 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 three 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.