James has a wealth of cybersecurity experience as CISO at Mimecast and Global Director of Cyber Risk at JPMorgan Chase. He also ran a successful consultancy practice for nearly 10 years, building security operations for over 90 organizations. He is skilled at understanding operational issues and constraints in various industries and has co-founded the Security BSides London conference. James previously worked as Field CISO at Rubrik and ServiceNow.

Victor has close to 30 years of InfoSec experience around the globe, bringing his rich tapestry of cross-border/cultural/deep technical perspectives from the data center to the cloud, and translating these key challenges to board-understandable priorities. Prior to joining Cohesity, Victor was Cisco Systems’ and Checkmarx’s inaugural Senior CISO Advisor for Asia Pacific, Japan & China.

Mark has 26 years of experience in IT, communications, and global finance. Before joining Cohesity, he was UK Business Development CTO at Dell Technologies, leading hybrid and multicloud conversations. Prior to that, Mark spent over 12 years at Barclays as Director of Group Storage, Virtualisation, and Public Cloud. His background gives him valuable insights into customer decision-making and budgetary considerations.

Traditional business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR) strategies were not built for destructive cyberattacks. Ransomware and wiper attacks are adversary-led crises in which identity may be compromised, administrative trust may be broken, backups may be targeted, and recovery decisions must be made under uncertainty. And evolving frontier AI models and geopolitical instability are only increasing the likelihood that ransomware, wiper malware, destructive intrusion, and nation-state tradecraft will collide in real-world incidents.

Drawing on lessons learned from response and recovery across hundreds of ransomware and wiper attacks, this session explores several common crisis management success and failure patterns. The session challenges conventional BC/DR assumptions and explains why cyber recovery requires a different operating model: one designed for hostile conditions, degraded trust, AI-accelerated attack cadence, geopolitical uncertainty, and business-critical decisions made before the full facts are known.

Learn why organizations must recover trust, not just data, and why identity, governance, communications, technical validation, and recovery sequencing must operate as one integrated crisis capability. You'll leave with a practical model for cyber crisis management that connects executive governance, identity recovery, containment, clean-room recovery, technical validation, and business service prioritization. 

For 20-years, Dr. Z has advised major healthcare, public sector, finance, retail, entertainment, and manufacturing organizations in over 50 countries. He’s also been a popular moderator and participant in numerous industry panels. His expertise comes from experience in information technology, regulatory compliance, research and development, marketing, and sales. Before joining Cohesity, Dr. Z worked for the likes of Symantec, Proofpoint, Veritas, SunGard, and IBM.

Matt works with our top customers to help them achieve their strategic objectives around data management and data security. He has been deeply involved in product development for over 20 years, always working on the cutting edge of technology in a range of executive roles. At Cohesity, he was previously Head of Product, a position he has also held at Puppet and the Data Protection Division at DellEMC. Matt holds over 20 patents and has degrees from Clark University and Northeastern University.