Tami Reynolds is a project manager and lead for NREL's Secure Cyber-Energy Systems Group. She provides technical leadership in building out and marketing the Distributed Energy Resources Cybersecurity Framework tool to industry and federal partners. She works closely with partners to develop a deep understanding of applying the Department of Energy Cybersecurity Capability Maturity Model and National Institute of Standards Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework to their renewable and distributed energy systems for the evaluation of cyber and physical security. Reynolds provides leadership in developing the Distributed Energy Resource Risk Manager, an NREL tool that will address the NIST Risk Management Framework with a focus on distributed energy resources. She works closely with chief information officers and chief information security officers of private industry partners to conduct cybersecurity assessments in the electric sector, and she provides support to the U.S. Agency for International Development in developing cybersecurity programs in developing countries.

Research Interests

Renewable energy security

Cybersecurity assessments

Cyber governance best practices

Cybersecurity risk management

Evaluation tools

Stakeholder engagement

Featured Work

Distributed Energy Resource Cybersecurity Best Practices, NREL Technical Report (2020)

Distributed Energy Resources Cybersecurity Framework: Applying the NIST Risk Management Process, NREL Technical Report (2020)

Guide to the Distributed Energy Resources Cybersecurity Framework, NREL Technical Report (2019)

Awards and Honors

Distributed Energy Resource Cybersecurity Framework – Presidential Award 2018