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Why smart cities need better telecommunications with IoT

Guest Contributor7 years ago

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Take a look at your city’s skyline, and count the cranes. As cities around the world continue to grow in...

Mobile

After 130 years are we about to witness the death of phone numbers?

Piers Dillon Scott10 years ago

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What happens when mobile operators stop offering voice and SMS tariffs? Will we see the death of the phone number?

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Cisco:Despite 4x growth only 45% of the world will be online by 2016

Piers Dillon Scott11 years ago

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Use of the internet will grow fourfold by 2016, according to Cisco, but less than half of the world's population will be online.

Tell us if your broadband is up to speed or if it’s under performing

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The Sociable’s Irish broadband speed test. Tell us how fast your internet connection is

Piers Dillon Scott12 years ago

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Believe it or not Ireland ranks as 13th in the world for broadband quality speed, ahead of our European friends such as the UK and Germany. But is number correct? More often than the not broadband speeds promised in the telecom’s ads or websites don’t reflect what the average home or business receives. Tell us how fast your internet connection is.

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One week before the pandemic hit, unaware of what was about to take place worldwide, Taylor Hersom quit his job as a Chief Information Security Officer for a local firm in Austin, Texas in the hopes of finding a similar position elsewhere.

Between working at Deloitte where he advised Fortune 500 companies on compliance and security tactics, and his more recent position at the local firm, Hersom didn’t anticipate finding a new job to be a difficult feat.

However, as the pandemic set in, his interview offers dried up, and he turned to UpWork in pursuit of a job. In the beginning, he applied for as many posts as he could find in order to build up his review score.

He began taking on clients and quickly realized that startups needed a lot of help with security and compliance, and he knew this could become a genuine business for him. But what he didn’t realize was just how in demand his services would be.

As time went on, Hersom moved away from UpWork and took on staff to build a team in order to meet demand. Shortly after this, on January 1, 2021, his new company Eden Data was born.

In today’s episode of the Brains Byte Back podcast, Hersom, CEO and Founder of Eden Data, shares how the team has grown in such a short period of time by taking a positive approach to security instead of the traditional fear-based approach.

In other words, instead of securing customers using fears tactics such as telling prospects if they get hacked they will be fined, receive bad PR, or be hated, Hersom advocates that strong security can show prospects that you care about them and their data, which can successfully close more deals.

Hersom also shares how their subscription approach to security and compliance has helped them stand out in this market, allowing them to scale alongside the startups they work with.