Building Trust Through Cybersecurity in a Zero Trust World

Episode notes

How can cybersecurity stop being treated as a tax on growth and start becoming something founders actually lean on to win trust, customers, and long-term advantage? In this episode of Business of Cybersecurity, I reconnect with Taylor Hersom , Founder and CEO of Eden Data , for a wide-ranging and honest conversation about what security really looks like in an AI-first world. Taylor has built his career inside compliance, risk, and cybersecurity, from Deloitte to launching Eden Data during COVID, and now helping venture-backed startups and global enterprises rethink how security fits into the business itself. Rather than framing cybersecurity as fear-driven insurance, he explains why it works best when treated as a signal of maturity, discipline, and credibility. We spend time unpacking how generative AI and agentic systems are changing the risk landscape, often faster than regulation and enforcement can keep up. Taylor shares why data, not models, remains the real asset worth protecting, and why so many organizations are still operating in a kind of AI Wild West.