James Blake

James Blake is Cohesity’s Strategist in Cyber Resiliency. In this role he draws on his nearly three decades of operational experience as a CISO, building Security Operations Centres and leading incident response to provide thought leadership and enablement around cyber resiliency best practices to internal resources and customers, as well as working with our Data Security Alliance partners to create a security ecosystem that delivers innovation.  James worked as both the Global Director of Cyber Transformation and Director of Cyber Risk at JPMorgan Chase.  He was the CISO of Mimecast from its inception to its IPO. He spent nearly a decade as the Managing Principle leading a consulting practice for HP Enterprise that built, operated and then transferred over 90 end-to-end security operations capabilities for some of the world’s largest organizations and provided consulting for over 200 more. James and his team were called in to provide response capabilities for several high-profile incidents, including ransomware and wiper attacks such as the 2012 Shamoon attack on Saudi Aramco. He is also the co-founder of the second-largest information security conference in the UK.