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Brain stimulating headgear for treating depression at home is getting smaller and less painful, with fewer headaches reported among those...

Technology

Yale’s most popular class in history, ‘Happiness,’ the answer to teen depression?

Sam Brake Guia5 years ago

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VR is shifting how we experience anxiety, surgery, pain, and games

Lisa Shipley5 years ago

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Whether speaking about using Virtual Reality to play games or to get to play doctor prior to surgery, VR is...

Mobile

3 apps aimed at improving your mental health

Sam Brake Guia5 years ago

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Technology

Researcher in Argentina develops sadness detector, inspired after working with children with autism

Tim Hinchliffe6 years ago

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A researcher from the National University of San Juan in Argentina develops a software that can detect sadness through voice...

Science

Researching ‘shrooms’: The magic tripping dose, mystical experiences and the tech community

Tim Hinchliffe7 years ago

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Johns Hopkins reveals the most beneficial dose for the active ingredient in magic mushrooms for treating depression while best-selling author Tim...

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Researchers explore social media to monitor mental illness

Tim Hinchliffe7 years ago

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Researchers at the University of Ottawa are tapping into social media data to detect and monitor mental illness warning signs....

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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.