About Jimmy

James 'Jimmy' Blake is the Chief Security Officer for Mimecast,  a leading cloud services company based in London.  James has overall responsibility for risk management for the organisation's internal IT infrastructure and service delivery platforms spread across four continents.  James also manages the security of platforms deployed within partners such as Cable & Wireless and Iron Mountain.

James is also one of the founders of eyeCompli, a company providing Software-as-a-Service standards-based risk assessment and security program management solutions.

He holds a PhD in Information Security Management and is a Certified Information Security Systems Professional. James has nearly two decades of commercial experience in information security, business continuity and storage.

James has a love of loud Harley Davidson motorcycles, real ale, role playing games and even louder heavy metal.  He lives in rural Kent with his partner, Sonia, and stepson, Rafael.

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Tuesday
Oct202009

King of understatement Ballmer: SideKick outage "not good"

Microsoft CEO, whose subsidiary SideKick recently decided to update their storage components of their cloud messaging device without proper provision of backup effectively wiping their user's devices clean, side the incident had been 'not good'.

The good news is that he was pimping more Microsoft cloud services - wow that is some kahoonies, either that or a severely limited grip on reality.

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