Tami Reynolds is a group manager for NREL's Cyber Risk Optimization Group. She provides oversight and technical leadership for the Distributed Energy Resource Cybersecurity Framework and the Distributed Energy Resource Risk Manager. She works closely with industry and federal partners to develop a deep understanding of applying the U.S. 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 expanding the Distributed Energy Resource Risk Manager, an NREL tool that helps facilities with distributed energy resources navigate and implement the National Institute of Standards Technology Risk Management Framework. 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.

Renewable energy security

Cybersecurity assessments

Cyber governance best practices

Cybersecurity risk management

Evaluation tools

Stakeholder engagement