Caroline Starr on Cybersecurity and Creative Tech Growth

I talk with Caroline Starr and she tells me about KDE Technology, where they handle website development, graphic design, marketing and cybersecurity. I ask why cybersecurity has grown and she says people now see the need for it as more break ins hit the news and more people worry about passwords and digital risk. She says it is more than passwords now because everything is digital.

I ask her about their space on Hale Street and she tells me they use it as a business incubator. She says people can rent it for almost anything and they have hosted comedy shows and open mic nights. I ask what makes their website work stand out and she tells me they build everything from scratch and host it all themselves. She says nothing is template based and they manage their own servers.

We talk about marketing and she says they handle SEO, Google Business profiles and social media and work with clients to help them grow. I ask how she got into this field and she tells me she taught for seventeen years and her students pushed her to follow her passion, which took her into cybersecurity and then into KDE.

I bring up their recent personnel change and she tells me their managing partner Lee is now full-time in the office. She says having him there is helpful because he can answer cybersecurity questions fast and help clients when issues come up. I ask her to pick one favorite thing they do and she tries to pick all of them, but she settles on cybersecurity because that is where her passion is.