Security Readiness Review
A practical review of accounts, devices, backups, access controls, patching, and everyday security practices. The goal is to identify useful improvements, not create a frightening hundred-page report.
Independent • Local • Privacy-conscious
Practical cybersecurity for Augusta businesses.
Clear guidance, useful training, and hands-on security help for small businesses and organizations across Augusta and the CSRA. No scare tactics. No mystery boxes. Just practical ways to protect your people, systems, and data.
Built in the Augusta area for the businesses and organizations that keep our community moving.
Based in the Augusta area • Serving the CSRA
River routes / local connections
A quiet study of river bends, street grids, and the connections between them.
Cybersecurity should make sense to the people using it.
Augusta is home to neighborhood businesses, medical offices, nonprofits, contractors, professional services, technical teams, and growing organizations that depend on technology every day. Most do not need a towering enterprise security program. They need someone who can explain what matters, identify practical risks, and help them take the next sensible step.
Whether your office is near Broad Street, across the river in North Augusta, or farther into the CSRA, our approach starts with your actual environment rather than a generic checklist.
What we help with
Security services built around real operations
Small-Business Security Planning
Create a realistic, prioritized security plan based on the organization’s size, technology, risk, and available budget.
Linux and Server Hardening
Review Linux servers, exposed services, administrative access, patching practices, logging, backup arrangements, and baseline configuration.
Backup and Continuity Planning
Help organizations prepare for outages, equipment failures, severe weather, ransomware, and other interruptions that can stop normal operations.
Security Awareness Training
Human-friendly sessions covering phishing, account protection, password managers, multifactor authentication, sensitive information, and incident reporting.
Private AI and Data Protection
Help organizations explore AI tools while considering privacy, confidential information, data retention, access controls, and local or private deployment options.
Incident-Response Preparation
Develop contact lists, escalation procedures, communication templates, and tabletop exercises before an emergency occurs.
Practical education
A monthly cybersecurity workshop for the CSRA
Cybersecurity changes constantly, but your team should not have to chase every headline. Our monthly workshops turn important security topics into clear actions your organization can actually use.
Session 01
Schedule coming soon
Protecting Business Accounts
Multifactor authentication, password managers, administrator accounts, recovery methods, and what to do when an account is compromised.
Session 02
Schedule coming soon
Preparing for Ransomware and Outages
Backups, recovery priorities, communication plans, vendor contacts, and a simple tabletop scenario.
Session 03
Schedule coming soon
Using AI Without Giving Away Sensitive Data
Practical guidance for employees using public AI services, private business information, customer data, and internal documents.
Augusta / CSRA
Local context matters.
The Augusta area sits at an unusual intersection of military technology, healthcare, education, government contracting, entrepreneurship, and small-business operations. That creates enormous technical opportunity, but local organizations still need security guidance scaled to their real needs.
From the brick paths along the Riverwalk to the technical community growing around the region, Augusta has its own rhythm. Our goal is to provide cybersecurity support that belongs here, not a generic service copied from somewhere else.
River routes / local connections
References to local institutions and landmarks are geographic and community context only. Augusta Cybersecurity is not affiliated with or endorsed by any government, military, educational, or tourism organization.
Field Note / Start here
A good first week of cybersecurity
Progress does not have to start with a major purchase. These seven checks reveal a great deal about day-to-day readiness.
Not sure where to begin? That is exactly what an introductory conversation is for.
About the work
Technical experience without the theater
Augusta Cybersecurity is operated by Hungry Nova Labs LLC, a veteran-owned technology company focused on private infrastructure, practical cybersecurity, Linux systems, and responsible use of artificial intelligence.
Our work is grounded in the belief that good security should be understandable. Clients should know what is being reviewed, why a recommendation matters, what it will cost, and what improvement they can reasonably expect.
A practical next step
Let’s make your next security step a sensible one.
Tell us a little about your organization, what is worrying you, or what you are trying to improve. We will start with a straightforward conversation and determine whether we are the right fit.