October 07, 2025

The Human Side of Cyber Resilience with Jonathon Mayor, Principal Security Consultant for the Americas at Cohesity

32 minutes

This episode features Jonathon Mayor, Principal Security Consultant for the Americas at Cohesity.

A founding member of Cohesity’s Security Center of Excellence and the Cyber Event Response Team, Jonathon has more than 20 years of experience in security operations, forensics, and business continuity, with past leadership roles at EMC, Dell, and Verizon. He’s guided Fortune 500 and Global 1000 organizations through high-stakes incident response and recovery.

In this episode, Jonathon explains why trust is the first casualty in a cyberattack, how to distinguish between mission critical operations and mission critical response, and why resilience depends as much on people and process as on technology. He shares candid lessons from the field on avoiding endless “what if” scenarios, preparing for the human toll of prolonged incidents, and building flexibility into every plan.

This is a practical look at cyber resilience and the critical skills every leader needs to have before the next 2 a.m. incident call.

Guest Bio

Jonathon Mayor is Principal Security Consultant for the Americas at Cohesity, where he has helped many Fortune 500 and Global 1000 organizations strengthen cyber resilience through threat intelligence, incident response, and recovery strategy. A founding member of Cohesity’s Security Center of Excellence and the Cyber Event Response Team (CERT), his current focus is proactively collaborating with security partners and customers to strengthen security posture and readiness by drawing from the experiences and lessons learned through CERT.

With more than 20 years in security operations, forensics, and business continuity, Jonathon has held leadership roles at EMC, Dell, and Verizon, where he oversaw global NOC operations and major incident mitigation.

Guest Quote

" The thing that's most important that's lost first and hardest to regain is trust. Everything else is secondary. If the very tools that I'm relying on to respond have been compromised, and therefore I can't trust them, where does my plan go from there?”

Time stamps

01:10 Meet Jonathan Mayor

03:37 Rethinking What's Mission Critical

12:25 Avoiding Endless What If's

15:50 Paranoia Has a Budget: Prioritizing Risks

21:27 The Human Element in Cyber Defense

25:01 Importance of Mindset Flexibility

27:11 Post-Incident Advice

Sponsor

The HIP Podcast is brought to you by Semperis, the leader in identity-driven cyber resilience for the hybrid enterprise. Trusted by the world’s leading businesses, Semperis protects critical Active Directory environments from cyberattacks, ensuring rapid recovery and business continuity when every second counts. Visit semperis.com to learn more.

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