Farien Williamson Email and Phone Number

Farien Williamson, a Managing Director in KPMG’s Advisory Services Practice in the Washington, DC office. She has over 21 years experience in information security program development specifically certification and accreditation using National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Risk Management Framework (RMF) and National Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Program (NIACAP) methodologies and techniques. This includes policy and procedural development and implementation; awareness training development and teaching across multiple audiences; risk analysis and contingency-planning preparation and guidance; communication of exposed risks with applicable solutions; virus prevention, detection and eradication; password management; and administrative control issues.

Managed the processes for implementing a formal process / approval to operate Department of Defense Health Affairs systems. It was a systematic procedure for evaluating, describing, testing, and authorizing systems or activities prior to or after a system is in operation.

Consultant to Department of Justice Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS) perform reviews of their Certification and Accreditation (C&A) and Computer Security Awareness Training processes. The reviews and training were performed for US Customs and Boarder Patrol, Citizenship and Immigration Services.