Cliff Barbier

Led multi-cloud governance and identity federation across 25+ global operating divisions.

• Consolidated 32 disparate M&A cloud environments into a centralized zero-trust identity federation model with zero disruption to production uptime.
• Architected automated Policy-as-Code baselines across AWS, GCP, and Azure CI/CD pipelines, preventing configuration drift prior to production deployment.
• Reported risk posture directly to executive steering committees and board-level stakeholders, aligning cybersecurity investments with operational agility.

Directed security architecture and DevSecOps transformation following enterprise breach restructuring.

• Led the only engineering division to achieve zero corrective audit actions cited by third-party investigators (Mandiant) during post-breach reviews.
• Replaced permanent developer access credentials with automated, short-lived IAM federation, eliminating credential leakage across multi-account topologies.
• Engineered automated security compliance unit tests within continuous integration pipelines, cutting developer friction and review queue delays by 85%.

Conducted statutory IT, cybersecurity, and operational resilience evaluations of financial institutions.

• Assessed financial institution information security risk models, data protection schemes, and regulatory compliance standards across commercial banking systems.
• Authored formal examination findings and negotiated remediation roadmaps directly with bank executive boards and chief technology officers.

Conducted penetration tests and risk assessments of financial institutions.

• Assessed information security risk, data protection, and regulatory compliance across banks and credit unions.
• Authored formal findings reports, presented to bank CFOs and CIOs.