How to Avoid Black Friday Scams: What Everyone Must Know Before Shopping The holiday season is the busiest shopping period of the year — and also the busiest season for cybercriminals.Black Friday and Cyber Monday attract millions of shoppers looking for deals, which creates the perfect opportunity for scammers to deploy fake websites, fraudulent ads,...Read More

Wishing all our clients and partners a safe and joyful holiday. May this day of independence bring you happiness and a wonderful time with family and friends. From all of us at AGT, enjoy the celebrations! 🇺🇸 #FourthOfJuly #IndependenceDay #AGTCelebrates”Read More

The digital realm’s escalating threats call for heightened vigilance and robust countermeasures. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have recently issued a joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) titled “Enhanced Monitoring to Detect APT Activity Targeting Outlook Online.” The advisory provides invaluable guidance to enhance monitoring within Microsoft Exchange Online...Read More

In recent years, cybercriminals have been increasingly using phishing attacks to gain access to sensitive information and resources. Phishing attacks involve the use of social engineering techniques to trick individuals into divulging their login credentials or other confidential data. Once the cybercriminals have obtained the login credentials, they can use them to launch account takeovers,...Read More

“Seeing Yourself in Cyber”  Since the 2004 declaration by the President of the United States and Congress, we dedicate each October as Cybersecurity Awareness Month. The annual campaign is sponsored through a conjoined effort between the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the National Cybersecurity Alliance (NCA) — providing support from both the federal...Read More

In 1996, a Microsoft employee used the first Virtual Private Network (VPN) to provide a secure connection to the Internet — which later was adapted into a popular method for remotely connecting with private corporate networks by the 2000s. Obviously, a lot has changed since then in terms of IT environments and infrastructure — that...Read More

Truly popularized in the mid-2000s, multi-factor authentication (MFA) has been security practitioners’ go-to response whenever someone asks, “what can I be doing right now to protect my data and accounts?” It’s often listed as a default best practice to defend against many cyber attacks and attack vectors such as phishing, business email compromise (BEC), keystroke...Read More

Heading into mid-to-late Summer, many organizations use this time of year to strategize or restrategize how they’ll prepare for a major crisis. A huge component of this process is planning for business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR). Without a robust system of practices, technology, and strategies dedicated to carrying on with operations and retaining...Read More

Best Practices for Managing Organizational Data Breach Privacy At conferences, networking events, trade shows, or even just at social gatherings, the topic may have come up that put you in a position where someone was telling you about a data breach or other cyber incident their business incurred. While the conversation may have been genuine...Read More

As we continue our journey on what it means to practice holistic cybersecurity and its comprehensive methodology, we can now go into the process of getting your business to that point. Everything about going holistic and fully implementing a robust security strategy such as Zero Trust starts with “Identity.” Identification is merely the process of...Read More