Jordan Henry

Jordan Henry is the director of NREL's Cybersecurity Research Center and the lab’s lead subject matter expert in control system, grid, and energy system cybersecurity research and development (R&D). In this role, Henry leads research directions in foundational and applied sciences for a verifiably cyber-resilient energy future, including strategic research areas in grid edge technology, cyber risk optimization, cyber-resilience science, cyber mission assurance, and verifiable cyber analysis.

A power engineer by education, Henry has dedicated his career to cybersecurity R&D in the energy and national security domains. Before NREL, Henry served over a decade at Sandia National Laboratories as a cyber researcher, technical lead, program developer, and manager leading critical infrastructure and control system research, predominantly in the defense, energy, and national security domains. Henry's primary research focus has been in risk assessments, energy system cybersecurity, autonomous cyber systems, advanced modeling and simulation, and threat analysis. Previous research also includes dynamic grid analysis, grid resilience, energy security, secure control system cybersecurity architectures, vulnerability research and assessments, hardware and software reverse engineering, and secure development and deployment of industrial control system environments.