Curtis St. Michel

Technical Lead, Idaho National Lab

Curtis St. Michel is the technical lead for Cybercore programs at the Idaho National Laboratory, and a Senior Control System Security Consultant for the Department of Energy (DOE). In this role, he is responsible for charting the technical direction of new projects across diverse programs for common United States Government (USG) mission interests, and mentoring staff to create a center of innovation for the nation. Previously, he was the manager responsible for control system security work at the INL including Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ICS-CERT and the DOE National SCADA Testbed.

Mr. St. Michel’s 30-year career has provided unique opportunities to work on a variety of electrical, instrumentation/control, and communications systems in support of nuclear facilities, critical infrastructure, and national security challenges. Control system cyber security has been his primary focus for the last 21 years.

Mr. St. Michel worked with Michael Assante to develop the conceptual framework for the Consequence-Driven Cyber-Informed Engineering (CCE) methodology and has spent the last 7 years working with USG and industry partners to establish a program to address the cyber risk to critical infrastructure and national security missions.

Mr. St. Michel received a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Montana State University in 1991.