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Why Choose Petronella Technology Group

Petronella Technology Group has been a trusted IT and cybersecurity partner for businesses across Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, Cary, Apex, and the Research Triangle since 2002. Led by CEO Craig Petronella, an NC Licensed Digital Forensics Examiner (License# 604180-DFE), CMMC Certified Registered Practitioner, Cybersecurity Expert Witness, Hyperledger Certified, and MIT-certified professional in cybersecurity, AI, blockchain, and compliance, PTG brings deep expertise to every engagement.

With BBB accreditation since 2003 and more than 2,500 businesses served, PTG has the experience and track record to deliver results. Craig Petronella is an Amazon number-one best-selling author of books including "How HIPAA Can Crush Your Medical Practice," "How Hackers Can Crush Your Law Firm," and "The Ultimate Guide To CMMC." He has been featured on ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, and WRAL, and serves as an expert witness for law firms in cybercrime and compliance cases.

PTG holds certifications including CCNA, MCNS, Microsoft Cloud Essentials, and specializes in CMMC 2.0, NIST 800-171/172/173, HIPAA, FTC Safeguards, SOC 2 Type II, PCI DSS, GDPR, CCPA, and ISO 27001 compliance. Our forensic specialties include endpoint and networking cybercrime investigation, data breach forensics, ransomware analysis, data exfiltration investigation, cryptocurrency and blockchain analysis, and SIM swap fraud investigation.

AI and Emerging Technology Services

Artificial intelligence and emerging technologies are reshaping every industry, creating both unprecedented opportunities and new security challenges. PTG helps businesses in the Research Triangle navigate this rapidly evolving landscape with a focus on practical, secure implementation that delivers measurable business value. Our AI services span the full lifecycle from strategy and evaluation through deployment and ongoing management, ensuring that organizations can harness the power of AI while maintaining security, compliance, and control over their data and processes.

Our custom AI development services help organizations build and deploy AI solutions tailored to their specific business needs. Whether you need automated customer service, document processing, predictive analytics, or workflow automation, our team evaluates available AI models, selects the best approach for your use case, and implements solutions on secure infrastructure that protects your proprietary data. We specialize in fine-tuning open-source and commercial AI models for specific industry applications, ensuring optimal performance while maintaining data privacy and regulatory compliance.

Security and compliance are central to our AI services. As AI regulations emerge at the federal, state, and international level, organizations must ensure their AI deployments meet evolving legal requirements. PTG provides AI compliance consulting that helps businesses understand their obligations, implement appropriate governance frameworks, establish responsible AI usage policies, and prepare for regulatory scrutiny. We also help organizations secure their AI infrastructure against threats including prompt injection attacks, model theft, data poisoning, and unauthorized access to AI systems and training data.

Our secure AI inference hosting services provide businesses with dedicated infrastructure for running AI models without sending sensitive data to shared public cloud services. This is particularly important for organizations in regulated industries such as healthcare, finance, and government contracting, where data handling requirements prohibit the use of public AI services for processing confidential information. PTG hosts AI workloads on enterprise-grade hardware with full security monitoring, access controls, and audit logging, giving businesses the benefits of AI while maintaining complete control over their data.

Our Approach to Cybersecurity

At Petronella Technology Group, cybersecurity is not just about installing antivirus software or setting up a firewall. We take a comprehensive, layered approach to security that addresses people, processes, and technology. Our methodology is built on industry-standard frameworks including NIST Cybersecurity Framework, CIS Controls, and MITRE ATT&CK, ensuring that your security program is aligned with the same standards used by Fortune 500 companies and government agencies. Every engagement begins with a thorough assessment of your current security posture, followed by a prioritized remediation roadmap that addresses your most critical risks first.

Our security operations team provides continuous monitoring through our Security Information and Event Management platform, which correlates events across your entire environment to detect threats in real time. When a potential threat is identified, our analysts investigate and respond immediately, often containing threats before they can cause damage. This proactive approach dramatically reduces the risk of successful cyberattacks and provides the rapid response capability that is essential in today's threat landscape.

We believe that employee awareness is one of the most important layers of defense. Human error remains the leading cause of data breaches, and no amount of technology can fully compensate for untrained employees. PTG provides comprehensive security awareness training programs that educate your team about phishing, social engineering, password security, data handling, and incident reporting. Our training programs include simulated phishing campaigns that test employee readiness and identify areas where additional education is needed, helping organizations build a strong security culture from the ground up.

Beyond prevention, PTG prepares organizations for the reality that breaches can occur despite the best defenses. Our incident response planning services help businesses develop, document, and test response procedures so that when an incident does occur, your team knows exactly what to do. From tabletop exercises to full incident simulations, we ensure that your organization is prepared to respond quickly and effectively, minimizing damage, preserving evidence, and meeting all regulatory notification requirements within required timeframes.