Fred Cobb, the chief information security officer for InfoSystems, hosts a weekly podcast, Cybersecurity Weekly, and works with clients around the country to identify and manage threats to the security of their digital data. Hackers attack every 39 seconds - or an average of 2,244 times a day, according to research from the University of Maryland. The reputational damage to companies that lose control of customer data is a huge concern, along with the everyday financial and personal effects on individuals whose data has been compromised. In 2018 hackers stole half a billion personal records, according to the 2018 End-of-Year Data Breach Report from the Identity Theft Resource Center. Spreading awareness of cybersecurity threats is one of Cobb's primary missions.

Maybe you've passed the Moxy Hotel on King Street, and maybe you've thought to yourself, "Wow, this place looks too hip for Chattanooga."

Kevin Love, 30, director of operations for TechTown, has always been ahead of the curve. It's in his DNA.

The founder and CEO of Teq Touch, Gable Eaton first developed the idea for his product that acts as a barrier between fingertips and touch screens when he became frustrated with his coworkers constantly touching his computer screen.

She has spent 24 years growing her career and leading teams in the Air Force, but DeDe Halfhill never expected to become a sought-after speaker and coach on leadership.

Everyone loves a good startup story, but Ace Chapman would rather go shopping where businesses already exist.

It's perhaps no accident that 26-year-old Marvin Campos has found his calling as an advocate for one of Chattanooga's most vulnerable immigrant communities.

Starting a business takes more than just a cool idea and some fundraising. Behind the scenes, the details run the gamut from establishing company structure to protecting intellectual property. Attorney Willa Kalaidjian, the chair of the Chambliss Startup Group, shares her insights on what it really takes to stand up a startup.

Editor's note: This interview was edited for length and clarity.

You could be forgiven for feeling a little nervous when you meet Donna Van Natten. After all, she is 'the body language doctor,' and she can read the signals you're inadvertently sending through your stance, your gestures, even your eye movements.

Step inside the REV Optimal Living chiropractic office on Frazier Avenue and it feels like an urban oasis. From the paneled accent walls, to the soft ambient music, to the dry erase boards filled with tips and topics for healthy lifestyles, REV is designed as a respite from the chaos of daily life.

The appetite for fire runs hot in nearly every season at Southern Hearth and Patio, with blazing demand for fireplaces as temperatures drop in the fall, and a sizzling market for outdoor kitchens every spring and summer.

Roenesha Anderson, 30, grew up inside a vortex of family turbulence. At one point, both of her parents were incarcerated, she says, and she was eventually adopted by an aunt.

Dancer-turned-nutritionist Maite Bou has a thriving business teaching healthy-living concepts to Chattanooga-area clients — mostly mothers and/or busy career-women.

Those looking for favorable tax laws and flexible options for creating and operating trusts have historically gone to states such as South Dakota, Delaware or Nevada. But with new trustee laws and the phase-out of the so-called Hall income tax on unearned income, Tennessee has emerged as one of the top states for trust formation and services.

Furniture maker La-Z-Boy debuted a new $18 million innovation center in Dayton, Tennessee, in September, making the state-of-the-art facility the research and development hub for the Michigan-based company.

It's doubtful that a man wearing a bee mask and carrying an ax as he approached the door at Rone Regency Jewelers knew owner Bobby Mason had been hunting since he was five.

The workplace can make people feel a full range of emotions — sometimes more intensely and frequently than one experiences at home.

Mention "town and gown" partnerships to University of Tennessee at Chattanooga business professor Dr. Thomas Lyons, and he lights up.

While studying law in the San Francisco area more than a decade ago, Kevin Christopher assisted investor R. Paul Herman write his book on the HIP (Human Impact + Profit) Investor. The 2010 book , which is now included in 27 university finance courses, showed that investments across all asset classes can solve human, social and environmental problems — and can be more profitable.

Growing up in Dallas, Erika Grau originally thought she wanted to be a broadcast journalist so she studied at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University.

International Equipment Company (IEC) has done business in Chattanooga for 60 years, but its never sold a piece of heavy equipment.

According to Google, an entrepreneur is a person who organizes and operates a business, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so. I would say that it's much more than that. Statistically speaking, entrepreneurship is also about taking a risk with your relationships and possibly even your marriage.