About Jimmy
James “Jimmy” Blake holds the position of Head of Global Cyber Resiliency Strategy for Cohesity a company focused on helping organisations use AI to maximise the value of their data and delivering operational resilience whether the threat to the organisation is human error, a natural disaster or cyber threat actors.
James has been a leading figure in the cyber security industry’s understanding of the role data management solutions play in building resilience to destructive cyber attacks across detection, response and recovery presenting at dozens of conferences, publishing white papers and making media appearances.
In his role, James works with the CISOs and CIOs of the World’s largest enterprises and governments, helping them withstand and recover from ransomware incidents, as well as develop and execute transformation plans towards a posture of resilience. He also acts as a Subject Matter Expert on Cyber Resiliency for Cohesity’s Product Management and Product Marketing teams to make sure that operational best practices and outcomes are always the guiding light for the organisation.
Prior to joining Cohesity, James was the first Field CISO at Rubrik, and was the Advisory Chief Information Security Officer for ServiceNow. With ServiceNow’s over 71% marketshare in global enterprises, defence and government Jimmy engaged with CISOs across the globe to provide guidance on cyber security risk and operational transformation. Helping both set multi-year, multi-million dollar strategies as well as providing pragmatic subject matter expertise on how to execute the manage the transformation on a week-by-week basis.
Before ServiceNow Jimmy acted as the Global Consulting Strategist for Micro Focus Cyber Defense Consulting. His role encompasses the creation and oversight of innovative consulting engagements Worldwide to assist defence, enterprise and government customers solve problems related to big data management and analytics; secure software development; and efficient and effective Cyber detection and response activities encompassing deception techniques; machine learning and manual analytics; hunt teams and traditional correlation. Jimmy has built or consulted on the Cyber Operations capability for dozens of organisations globally in the government and private sector.
Prior to Micro Focus, James was the Head of Global Cyber Security Operations Integration for JPMorgan Chase. His role involved designing, implementing and maturing end-to-end cyber security capabilities, including event detection through correlation, analytics and hunt; incident triage and intrusion analysis; integration and analysis of strategic, tactical and operational threat intelligence; and incident and breach response.
Before JPMorgan Chase, James was the EMEA Practice Manager for HP Security Intelligence & Operations Consulting (SIOC), the World’s leading consultancy practice in the field of building and maturing of intrusion analysis, security analytics, threat intelligence, breach response and incident response capabilities for enterprise, government and military customers across the globe. Since it’s inception in 2007, HP Security Intelligence & Operations Consulting has built over 81 Security Intelligence & Operations Centres from the ground-up and provided consultancy for over 200 others. James and managed the EMEA practice successfully delivering dozens of complex multi-year build from-the-ground-up or transformation engagements for government ministries, intelligence agencies, military and commercial customers.
James was the Chief Information Security Officer for Mimecast, at-the-time Europe’s largest Software-as-a-Service vendor and placed in Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50 four years running, in the Sunday Times Tech Track 100 for two consecutive years and a cover story in SC Magazine. James oversaw the security of over a million subscriber’s data across 11 data centres and 7 corporate offices on 4 continents during a period of explosive growth.
Before Mimecast, James had gained over 15 years of experience as a contractor in defence supporting infrastructure operationally in the field and as a CIO for a pharmaceutical services company.
James is one of the co-founders and directors of the annual Security B-Sides London information security conference and is still actively involved in the event every year. He is the regional chair of the South West region UKCERT Cyber information Sharing Partnership (CiSP).
James has made several radio and TV appears to cover topics related to information security and has presented at conferences across the World.