IT - CORPORATE RESUME

R. Kinney Williams, CFE, CISM, CGEIT, CRISC
IT and Cybersecurity Auditor
President of Yennik, Inc.
4409 101st Street, Lubbock, Texas 79424
806-535-8300; Examiner@yennik.com

At the 2020 Independent Bankers Association of Texas convention, R. Kinney Williams was presented the President's Award for 57 years of dedicated service to the banking industry as a bank examiner, banker, and independent bank auditor.

Internet and information technology security and cybersecurity auditing experience:

Since 1997, Mr. Williams has conducted hundreds of IT audits for community bankers across the United States.

Since starting penetration testing in 1998 for community banks, Mr. Williams annually conducts thousands of penetration-vulnerability tests all over the nation.  The VISTA penetration study is nationally recognized as a leader in providing Internet security testing to financial institutions.  In addition, he has conducted over a thousand FFIEC and ADA web site audits since 1997.

After serving in the US Navy and fours years working in a bank, Mr. Williams has examined financial institution computer operations since 1970.  At that time when he was an examiner for the State of Missouri and worked jointly with examiners from FDIC, OCC, and the FRB to test the first EDP questionnaires used by field examiners.  Later, as Regional Director for the Texas Department of Banking, he supervised numerous EDP examinations.

Mr. Williams is a member of the Member of the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA), Association of Credit Union Internal Auditors, Society of Financial Examiners, and The Institute of Internal Auditors.  He is  accredited as a Certified Financial Examiner and a Certified Information Security Manager as well as a Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT and Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control.

Mr. Williams spent four years on  the program committee and a speaker for ISACA's annual Information Security & Risk Management Conference held in Las Vegas.  Also, has been an FFIEC conference speaker on Internet banking and security issues for FDIC, OCC, FRB, and NCUA examiners. 

Mr. Williams has programmed personal computers since 1982 and has been using the Internet since 1991.  He first got involved in the "Year 2000" issues in 1987 while programming a loan review computer program.   He has written several programs to assist bankers with lending operations.  The most popular was the Loan Reviewer, which he sold to a national consulting firm in 1989.   

In 1982, Mr. Williams started programming personal computers in Basic.  In the early 1990, he programmed numerous applications to manage my responsibilities as Regional Director for the State of Texas, which were written using Clarion.  In addition, he has been programming web pages since 1995 and maintains his own web sites.

Served as an expert witness several times regarding commercial banking and regulatory matters dealing with operations and loan quality.

After serving in the US Navy, he started in banking at the Exchange National Bank, Columbia, Missouri from June 1963 - January 1967 that included direct involvement in all areas of bank operations from a proof operator to head teller.  In addition, helped convert the bank to its first computer operations.

Professional Licenses  

- Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT (accredited by ISACA)
- Certified Information Security Manager (accredited by ISACA)
- Certified Financial Examiner (accredited by the Society of Financial Examiners)
- Real Estate Broker (licensed by the State of Missouri, 1982-89)
- Securities Salesman (licensed by the NASDA, 1984-86)
- Member of the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA)
- Member of the Association of Credit Union Internal Auditors
- Member of the Society of Financial Examiners
- Member of The Institute of Internal Auditors

2024 Continuing Education – SANS and ISACA - Information Technology - Cybersecurity Education 2024 and prior years

INSTRUCTOR

Independent Community Bankers of America's Community Bank Technology Conference
Speaker at ISACA's annual Information Security & Risk Management Conference.
Frequent speaker for the FFIEC/OCC/FDIC conferences for bank examiners.
Speaker at the Annual ABA Compliance Conference.
Speaker at the Annual Conference for Credit Union Directors.
Speaker for the Conference of State Bank Supervisors.
Developed and instructed at bank examiners school for the Conference of State Bank Supervisors.
Lectured on loan documentation, loan review, and as a case study instructor at The School of Banking of the South.
Instructed at various AIB schools. 

ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIPS

Independent Bankers Association of Texas
Texas Bankers Association

PREVIOUS ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIPS

California Independent Bankers
Oklahoma Bankers Association
The Institute of Internal Audits
Independent Community Bankers Association from 2008 to 2018

PUBLICATIONS

Mr. Williams has written articles for The Texas Independent Banker (IBAT), BankNews, The Examiner, The Kansas City Business Journal, The Kansas City Star, and the ABA Compliance Journal. Topics include the value of closed banks, loan reviews, bank examinations, professionalism, Internet compliance, IT audit, and Internet security (cybersecurity).

PERSONAL INTERESTS

Kinney enjoys spending time with his wife, children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, horseback riding, modern Lionel trains, Cowboy Action Shooting, and is a life member of SASS.  

  Lubbock Chamber of Commerce Member