Megan Culler
- Technical Director for Critical Energy Cybersecurity
- Idaho National Laboratory, Center for Security Digital Energy Technology
Megan Culler is a power engineer and researcher in the Infrastructure Security group and the technical director of clean energy cybersecurity for the Center for Securing Digital Energy Technology at Idaho National Laboratory. Her work focuses on risk, resilience, and cybersecurity for power systems, with a focus on the implications of increased digitization, changing generation mixes, growth in large load deployments, supply chain assurance and other grid modernization challenges.. She earned a B.S. in electrical engineering from Texas A&M, with a concentration in power systems, and minors in cybersecurity and computer science. She earned an M.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with dual concentrations in power systems and cybersecurity.
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Cybersecurity Regulations, Best Practice and Minimum Standards
The threat of cyber-attacks by state actors and hacktivists continues to grow as a threat to cause disruption to our infrastructures. We are behind the curve against the attackers, so developing legal requirements, recommended and best practices, and foundational security controls is important to ensure operators and agencies are meeting expected regulation requirements to prevent a successful attack, or what to do following a cyber breach.