Kent Landfield

Chief Standards and Technology Policy Strategist

Kent Landfield has spent 30+ years in software development, global network operations and cybersecurity arenas. He is currently Chief Standards and Technology Policy Strategist. Kent was extremely active in the development of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and Privacy Framework, participating and presenting in workshops, developing corporate responses and providing global policy and educational outreach in multiple countries. While at Intel, he initiated and co-authored of ‘The Cybersecurity Framework in Action: And Intel Use Case’. He has worked on multiple cyber threat information sharing research, standards and development efforts and co-authored the IETF’s RFC 7203, An Incident Object Description Exchange Format (IODEF) Extension for Structured Cybersecurity Information. Previously as Director of Content Strategy, Architecture and Standards for McAfee Labs, Kent was the Chief McAfee Labs Vulnerability Group Architect. Kent is a Founding member of the Common Vulnerability and Exposures (CVE) program, an active Board member and the Chair of the CVE Strategy Working Group. He is involved with multiple global vulnerability related standards efforts. Kent holds patents in DNS, Email and Software Patch Distribution technologies.