Getting a Thumbs Up from the Agency CISO – A Case Study in Security Focus and Execution – Dave Fairburn

Dave Fairburn
Director
SunHawk Consulting, LLC
dave.fairburn@cyberpros.us

Dave Fairburn is a Director at SunHawk Consulting. He is a seasoned cyber professional with more than 30 years of experience designing and implementing programmatic security solutions. He is an expert in security requirements including CMMC, FedRAMP, FISMA, NIST 800-53 R4 and 800-37 R1, NIST 800-171, HIPAA, GDPR, SOC 1, SOC2, and SOC 3.

In 2010, Dave served as the Project Manager for the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for the General Services Administration and the Federal CIO, where he developed the Security Program for the Federal Risk Authorization and Management Program (FedRAMP). Dave is now nationally known as the architect and author of FedRAMP, resulting in the first-ever government-wide implementation of FISMA. He also designed the Continuous Monitoring Program for FedRAMP, which has been leveraged, in part, by the Department of Energy. 

Dave is routinely asked to provide Subject Matter Expertise to multiple federal and commercial entities in the fields of Cloud Computing, IT Security, Information Assurance, and Program Management. He is a strong advocate for continuous monitoring and establishing a risk management framework that can be utilized to manage risk in a “real world” environment. Dave received his Master’s Degree in Cyber Security from the University of Maryland.