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Marci Womack

Marci Womack is a Managing Director in Schellman’s Federal Practice overseeing both the emerging CMMC assessment program and the established FedRAMP assessment program. Marci also serves as the 3PAO (third party assessment organization) representative on the Federal Secure Cloud Advisory Committee (FSCAC). Prior to joining Schellman in 2016 as a senior associate, Marci worked as a federal contractor implementing and assessing federal cybersecurity programs, as well as an FFIEC/GLBA security controls assessor and consultant. Marci has over 10 years of information security experience across various industries and holds many key certifications, including CISSP, CISA, and CEH. Marci is also experienced in other frameworks, including StateRAMP, CJIS, MARS-E, IRS 1075, and GLBA (FFIEC).

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FedRAMP | Federal Assessments

By: Marci Womack
August 9th, 2023

One of the questions that we get the most often when we're talking about Federal assessments is how long does it take to get through the assessment process and what happens afterward to actually get to FedRAMP authorization?

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Federal Assessments | CMMC

By: Marci Womack
July 5th, 2023

So you're looking to achieve a CMMC certification. In this video, we will cover the

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Federal Assessments

By: Marci Womack
February 8th, 2023

So you're here because you need a federal assessment or you want to pursue a federal assessment and you're not sure where to start. There are a myriad of options. So today we're going to discuss what those options are to hopefully better define your roadmap and determine what makes sense for you and your organization. Hi, I'm Marci Womack. I'm a federal services practice leader here at Schellman. We've been doing federal assessments, going on 10 years and do hundreds of these annually. We often talk to organizations who are either in the federal space or want to pursue opportunities in the federal space. And there are many assessment and compliance opportunities that they don't know which one makes sense for their organization. Our goal today is to outline what some of those frameworks are and what the options you have depending on the services that you provide to your customers or the types of data that you're handling on behalf of your customers. So the few different options of federal services or federal assessments that are available to you, one of the hot topics is:

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Federal Assessments | CMMC

By: Marci Womack
January 19th, 2023

Many organizations want to understand how they can pursue a CMMC certification. They're really interested in the standard or they know it's very important to their line of business. And today we're going to talk about the ways that CMMC certification can happen right now. And what we expect in the future.

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