Maurice Martin is a senior cybersecurity research leader in NREL's Cyber Risk Optimization Group. Martin provides program development and system-level analysis for cybersecurity initiatives in the utility space. His work includes developing strategic research objectives, impact analysis, and experiment design. He engages large and diverse groups of stakeholders on efforts to improve technology, security, and resilience and serves as liaison to utilities, vendors, and associations.

Research Interests

Cybersecurity for industrial control systems

Modeling and simulation

Complex systems

Quantification of risk

Education

M.S., Systems Science, Louisiana State University

B.S., Electrical Engineering, Louisiana State University

Professional Experience

Team lead, Cybersecurity Work Group, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (2008–2015)

Director, Communication and Marketing, Society for Technical Communication (1996–2008)

Associations and Memberships

Member, International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium

Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Featured Work

Reference Architectures as a Means of Influencing Electric Energy Operational Technology/Industrial Control System Security Outcomes, U.S. Department of Energy Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response Technical Report (2022)

Analysis of System and Interoperability Impact from Securing Communications for Distributed Energy Resources, IEEE Power and Energy Conference at Illinois (2019)

Cryptography Considerations for Distributed Energy Resource Systems, IEEE Power and Energy Conference at Illinois (2019)

Risk Assessment at the Edge: Applying NERC CIP to Aggregated Grid-Edge Resources, Electricity Journal (2019)

Developing Use Cases for the Evaluation of ADMS Applications to Accelerate Technology Adoption, IEEE Green Technologies Conference (2017)

Guide to Cybersecurity, Resilience, and Reliability for Small and Under-Resourced Utilities, NREL Technical Report (2017)