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Avalon is pleased to announce that Venkat Rangajaran has joined our team as Vice President of Cyber Sales. Venkat has more than 22 years of experience in the cybersecurity industry, working for startups, midsize companies, and mega caps, with an impressive track record of growing and leading top-performing sales teams and winning major contracts with numerous marquee logo clients.

The Avalon Cyber team is proud to welcome Jill Martucci as our new Director of Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC) for our security advisory services. Her experience spans many service lines and industries in which she executes programs that ensure the proper functioning of client information technology and information security (IT/IS) controls, with a focus on the following areas:

Getting good grades back in grammar school was pretty exciting, right? You get a high score on your math test and you’re super psyched for the rest of the day. Well, that’s the same feeling the team at Avalon gets when we think about our overall Net Promoter Score (NPS), which is… 92!

Avalon, a national provider of digital forensics, eDiscovery, cybersecurity, business process outsourcing services, and traditional litigation support services to law firms and corporations, has opened a new office in Phoenix, Arizona. This additional location strengthens Avalon’s national presence and its commitment to assisting the legal and business communities.

UPDATE: The move-in date for Avalon Buffalo has changed. Until further notice, it’ll be business as usual  at 741 Main St,. Buffalo, NY 14203. Stay tuned for more details! In the meantime, if you have any questions, feel free to call us at 716.995.7777.

We're pleased to announce that Justin has joined the Avalon Cyber team as a Cyber Security Engineer.  Justin will be focused primarily on the technical development of our cybersecurity offerings, inclusive of MDR, threat hunting, and incident response.

Jonathan has joined the Avalon Cyber team as a Cyber Security Engineer. Jonathan will be focused on our cybersecurity offerings, inclusive of MDR, threat hunting, and cyber incident response process and investigative capabilities.

Avalon Cyber is pleased to announce the hiring of Andrew Monaco as Talent Acquisition Specialist.  The Avalon team has a passion for solving client challenges and Andrew’s experience with building high-level recruitment strategies will help Avalon engage top talent to meet our client’s needs.

As a teenager back in the ‘90s, some of my favorite things to do included playing PlayStation and eating pizza. If I were a teenager today, the only difference would be that I’d be playing on my laptop or tablet while eating pizza. Alas, today, I am an adult. And instead of playing games, I’m going to conferences.

Here at Avalon, we love to see our people move up and take on new challenges. Ryan Lemieux was recently promoted to Information Security Analyst where he will be scrutinizing and providing investigative analysis of cyber events for our clients. Ryan will be the direct point of contact for questions and concerns from Avalon Cyber’s clients and will escalate security events when identified through...

Wild Wild West isn’t just a ‘90s hip hop theme song for the movie of the same name, courtesy of Will Smith. It’s also become an internet playground for hackers who are willing to do anything to get into systems, which we’re hearing about on an all-too-regular basis.

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), enacted in 2016, becomes effective in May. It requires organizations that handle the personal data of European Union (EU) citizens to ensure adequate protection is in place to prevent theft or misuse.

The demand for cybersecurity professionals is outpacing supply, and that’s bad news for your small business.

Cybersecurity is looking more and more like a Wile E. Coyote/Road Runner cartoon every day. And sorry to say it, security pros, but we’re the Coyote in this situation.

Every day, we read a headline about a computer hacking or hear a personal story about a friend, family member, or colleague getting hacked. The signs of your computer or identity being hacked are often apparent, such as a menacing pop-up screen notifying you that all your critical files have been encrypted and a ransom is demanded to unencrypt them. Other times, though, the signs are subtle and...

Did you ever watch The Office and think about how ridiculous it would be to run such a dysfunctional company? Thank goodness you aren’t the CEO of that mess.