Shane McFly is a cybersecurity research scientist in NREL's Secure Cyber Energy Systems Group. He performs research in vulnerability analysis and mitigation to secure energy communication and control systems from cyberattacks. McFly works with the electric utility sector, the renewable energy generation sector, energy and security technology vendors and integrators, the Department of Energy, the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, and other federal agencies with missions critical to the nation's energy security interests.

Research Interests

Cybersecurity

Network architecture

Testbed design

Education

M.S., Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

B.S., Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Professional Experience

Cybersecurity research scientist, NREL (2019–present)

Adjunct faculty, Colorado School of Mines (2019–present)

Research system administrator, Information Trust Institute at University of Illinois Urbana Champaign (2017–2019)

Adjunct faculty, Parkland College (2019)

Cybersecurity and networks technology research engineer, Boeing Research and Technology (2016)

Associations and Memberships

Member, Association for Computing Machinery

Member, IEEE

Founder, Ethics Village at DEFCON

Founder, OpenNSM

Featured Work

A Graph-Based Analysis of Industrial Control Systems Network Traffic, Hot Topics in the Science of Security (2019)

Ethics Village, DEFCON (2018, 2019, 2020)

OT Network Monitoring, CREDC Summer School (2017)

ICS Village Tutorial, DEFCON (2017)

Containing Vulnerabilities in Containers, Cyber Defense and Disaster Recovery Conference (2016)

Crypto Privacy Village Talk: Using Privacy and Crypto Tools, DEFCON (2015)

Awards and Honors

Illinois Cyber Security Scholars Program (2015)