Jesse Pearce

Jesse Pearce

Director
McGrathNicol

Jesse is a cyber security leader with over a decade of hands‑on experience in digital forensics and incident response. Starting his career as a systems administrator, he gained practical insight into how complex systems fail in the real world before specialising in DFIR.

Jesse has led technical investigations and crisis responses across a range of industries, working closely with executives, legal teams and regulators during high‑pressure incidents. Drawing on lessons from real breaches, he focuses on turning chaos into structured action through simple, effective tools such as checklists and playbooks. His work centres on helping organisations make better decisions in the first critical hours of an incident and convert hard‑won experience into lasting resilience.

The first 24 Hours: Checklists, choices and chaos in cyber crisis response

Jesse Pearce
2026-10-16 12:35 pm
2026-10-16 1:15 pm
Think Tank 3

Well-designed checklists for the first two, eight and twenty-four hours of a cyber incident turn chaotic decision-making into calm, coordinated response.

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