Brian Barnier

Director of Analytics, ValueBridge Advisors

Barnier is the director of analytics at ValueBridge Advisors. He is also professor of operations finance and economics at the graduate level across several U.S. universities. He has been a guest lecturer in Russia and Mexico and served on the faculty of the Wharton/MBA Stonier Graduate School of Banking. Prior to ValueBridge Advisors, he led teams to nine U.S. patents in technology with AT&T, Nokia and IBM. In 2021, Barnier earned the coveted Joseph J. Wasserman award presented by ISACA for outstanding achievement in information technology risk, governance and security.

Leading Teams to Understand Creative and Critical Thinking

Brian Barnier • March 31, 2022

Harold Moss, the CEO of Tautuk, has a background in building products, but many in cybersecurity do not come from a product background. In this interview with Brian Barnier, he discusses the importance of context, listening and collaboration for teams to understand creative and critical thinking.

Cybersecurity: Think Critically and See the Whole System

Brian Barnier • February 25, 2022

Many security practitioners take a check-box approach to cybersecurity, which prevents them from seeing the whole system. John Remo of Warner Music Group discusses how to break out of this pattern and use critical and abstract thinking to examine the deeper workings of the system.

Spotting Cybersecurity Gaps, Becoming More Systems-Focused

Brian Barnier • January 27, 2022

Lisa Young prepares security teams to protect and defend their organizations from cybercriminals by seeing the things that others miss and asking the questions that others are too afraid to ask. She discusses how critical thinking improves cybersecurity.

National Cybersecurity and the Broader Threat Spectrum

Brian Barnier • December 8, 2021

Critical thinking, systems thinking and design thinking are important elements missing in cybersecurity education today. In this interview, Dan Faughnan, ex- Canadian Security Intelligence Service, discusses how thinking about cyber as part of a broader threat spectrum relates to national security.

The Need for Systems Thinking in Cybersecurity

Brian Barnier • October 26, 2021

In preparation for the relaunch of ISMG’s education platform, CyberEd.io, Ron Ross of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and Brian Barnier, who is designing a course on critical thinking and design thinking, discuss the need for reorienting toward systems thinking in cybersecurity.