Amber Pearson

Executive Director

Amber Pearson is the Executive Director of Information Security Policy and Strategy for the Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Information and Technology. In this role, she is the principal advisor to the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Information Security (DAS), and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). She is responsible for advancing cybersecurity and privacy strategies that balance requirements with business objectives in support of the VA mission. She oversees the implementation and promulgation of cybersecurity policies throughout the department with the primary goal of ensuring information security risks are managed using a risk-based approach within Federal guidelines and industry standards.

Prior to her role as Executive Director, Ms. Pearson served as the Head of U.S. Government Security Compliance Engagement at Amazon Web Services (AWS) with the responsibility of providing security assurances of AWS security and privacy claims to regulators, auditors, and customers. She had direct oversight and responsibility for delivering business outcomes that aligned with U.S. regulatory compliance. In this role, she facilitated and coordinated the assessment of services seeking authorization for various U.S. government security certifications (i.e. FedRAMP, DoD, CMMC) applicable to AWS East/West and GovCloud (US) regions, advised on government compliance matters internal to AWS, and was a liaison with regulators, customers and authorizing officials.

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