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Technology’s relationship with unauthorized immigration, border security

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No matter what side of the unauthorized immigration and border security debate you're on, technology plays a major role in...

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State Dept answers FAQs on social media screening visa applicants

Navanwita Sachdev3 years ago

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The US State Department releases its FAQs regarding the social media screening of visa applicants while addressing those that don't have...

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Shareholders tell Amazon to stop selling Rekognition facial recognition tech to govt

Tim Hinchliffe4 years ago

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Amazon shareholders file a resolution demanding that Amazon stop selling facial recognition software Rekognition to government and law enforcement, citing...

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Rebranding immigration for a positive economic impact

Sam Brake Guia4 years ago

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Immigration is one of the hottest topics in the news today, and while the United States seems to be divided...

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ACLU files FOIA request demanding DHS, ICE reveal how they use Amazon Rekognition

Tim Hinchliffe4 years ago

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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) files a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request demanding that the Department of Homeland...

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Amazon, Palantir are aiding mass deportations of govt ‘undesirables’: report

Tim Hinchliffe4 years ago

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A report reveals that Silicon Valley giants like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Palantir are providing Immigration and Customs Enforcement...

Technology

‘The process is slow, expensive and relatively scary’: How one startup is changing the immigration process for the better – Interview

Sam Brake Guia4 years ago

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In the face of the unfortunate events occurring on the US' southern board, with families being inhumanly separated, it can be difficult...

Technology

Immigration: The key to the US’ tech skill gap?

Sam Brake Guia5 years ago

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Trump has been very vocal about the need for "JOBS, JOBS JOBS!" in the USA. The creation of jobs was...

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The solution to Trump’s H1B visa restrictions for tech companies is to shift from outsourcing towards ‘nearshoring’

Alejandro Vasquez6 years ago

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For decades, H1B visas have been one of the cornerstones of the traditional IT outsourcing business model. In many ways,...

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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.