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STEPHEN THOMAS KENT
Chief Scientist- Information Security, BBN Technologies a part of Verizon Communications
Currently Dr. Kent oversees information security activities within BBN Technologies, and works with government and commercial clients, consulting on system security architecture issues. In this capacity he has acted as system architect in the design and development of several network security systems for the Department of Defense and served as principal investigator on a number of network security R&D projects for almost 20 years.
During the last two decades, Dr. Kent's R&D activities have included the design and development of user authentication and access control systems, network layer encryption and access control systems, secure transport layer protocols secure e-mail technology, multi-level secure (X.500) directory systems, public-key certification authority systems, and key recovery systems. His most recent work focuses on public-key certification infrastructures for government and commercial applications and security for Internet routing.
Dr. Kent served as a member of the Internet Architecture Board (1983-1994), and chaired the Privacy and Security Research Group of the Internet Research Task Force (1985-1998). He chaired the Privacy Enhanced Mail (PEM) working group of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) from 1990-1995 and co-chairs the Public Key Infrastructure Working Group (1995-). He serves on the editorial board of the of Journal Computer Security (1995-) and served on the editorial board for the Journal of Telecommunication Networks (1982-1984). He also serves on the board of the Security Research Alliance, a consortium of leading information security companies.
Dr. Kent chairs the committee on Authentication Technologies and Their Privacy Implications, for the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) of the National Research Council (NRC). Previous CSTB/NRC service includes the Information Systems Trustworthiness Committee (1996-98), which produced the NRC report, "Trust in Cyberspace," the committee on Rights and Responsibilities of Participants in Networked Communities (1993-94), the Technical Assessment panel for the NIST Computer Systems Laboratory (1990-1992 & 2000-2003), and the Secure Systems Study Committee, which produced the "Computers at Risk: Safe Computing in the Information Age" report (1988-1990).
The Secretary of Commerce appointed Dr. Kent as chair of the Federal Advisory Committee to Develop a FIPS for Federal Key Management Infrastructure (1996-98). He previously served on the Presidential SKIPJACK Review panel (1993-1994), and on the board of directors of the International Association for Cryptologic Research from its inception in 1982 through 1989.
Dr. Kent has been an active participant in a number of professional conferences, as a speaker, session chair, program committee member, etc. He chairs the steering committee for the Symposium on Network and Distributed System Security (1990-) and was General Chair of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (1996-97).
Since 1977, Dr. Kent has lectured in the United States, Europe, Australia, and Asia on the topic of security in computer communication networks on behalf of various organizations, including the National Cryptologic School, George Washington University, M.I.T., University of Southern California, UCLA, various government agencies, and several private firms.
Stephen Kent holds a Ph.D in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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