James "Jimmy" Blake is the Manager of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Security's Security Intelligence & Operations Consulting (SOC) Practice in EMEA.  HP's SIOC Practice helps enterprise customers build and maintain effective Security Operation Centres.

Prior to joining HP, Jimmy was Chief Information Security Officer for the UK's largest Software-as-a-Service vendor.  There he helped protect the data of millions of subscriber's across three continents in a dozen data centres.  Jimmy has over two decades Information Security and Business Continuity Management experience gained both in consultancy and working for leading security vendors.

Jimmy is a GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH) Certified Information Security Systems Professional (CISSP), a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), a Certified ISO 27001 Lead Auditor, a Certified Ethical Hacker for EC Council (C|EH) and holds a Certificate in Cloud Computing Security Knowledge (CCSK) from the Cloud Security Alliance.  Jimmy is also one one of the co-founders of the Security B-Sides London conference.

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Veteran UK tech journalist Guy Kewney dies

Guy Kewney, one of the UK's best known and most influential tech journalists passed away peacefully this morning.

I was lucky enough to be interviewed by Guy a couple of times for an article on cloud computing.  We met at his sailing club and enjoyed several cups of coffee as we discussed the migration cycle from mainframe to client/server to the cloud.  Guy had a very broad knowledge of not just technology, but also its impact on society and the human element was always present in his questioning.

I grew up reading Guy's articles in Personal Computer World and he was a major influence on my decision to move into the field of computing.

Any discussion of Guy isn't complete without mentioning the now famous Guy Coma incident, in which a very bemused Congolese Economics graduate who was working as a minicab driver is dragged into a live BBC News 24 television interview under the mistaken assumption he is Guy Kewney:



Update 12 April: The Register has an obituary for Guy today.

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