Stop Losing Your Data with Brian Gill

Brian is a computer scientist, entrepreneur, and angel investor. Due to his firm belief that data recovery shouldn’t be a prohibitively expensive service, Brian founded Gillware, where he and his team specialize in cyber risk assessments, data recovery, and incident response. Today we spoke about his journey in business growth, as well as how to protect yourself from hackers, providing actionable tips that you can put into practice today!

Show Notes

* Brian Gill
* Gillware
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* Equifax Payment
* Facebook FTC Settlement

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Brian Gill: There’s a reasonable chance we can’t help you, but we know more about it than you do, it’s financially risk-free, and nobody else is going to help you at all. It wasn’t because I was trying to make a bunch of money at that price point, because we weren’t. We were going to lose money at that price point, but we were going to lose a small amount of money, and we were going to learn the process, we were going to get exposure to casework. My intention was never to make money in the first couple years. In fact, we didn’t.
Joe Casabona: Brian Gill is a computer scientist, entrepreneur, and angel investor. Due to his firm belief that data recovery shouldn’t be a prohibitively expensive service, something I agree with, Brian founded Gillware. He and his team specializes in cyber risk assessment, data recovery, and incident response. Now that is a lot of scary-sounding stuff, but during our conversation, he makes it sound a little bit less scary. It’s scary if it happens to you, but understanding is less scary. Today we spoke about his journey in business growth, as well as how to protect yourself from hackers. He provides actionable tips that you can put into practice today, and some of the things he did to learn his chops in data recovery especially were very interesting to me. So I’m excited for you to hear this conversation, of course, after a word from our sponsors.
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