Kim Lawson-Jenkins is an Senior Cybersecurity Specialist in the Cyber Security Branch in the Office of Nuclear Security and Incident Response at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Agency and has worked at the agency since 2014. She was the technical lead for the revision 1 of US NRC Regulatory Guide 5.71 “Cyber Security Programs for Nuclear Power Reactors”. Prior to 2014 she worked for 10 years as a computer scientist in the Center for High Assurance Computer Systems at the U. S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington D.C.

Ms. Lawson-Jenkins received her bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a master’s degree and applied scientist degree in computer science from the George Washington University in Washington DC.