Cybersecurity for regulated businesses.
24/7 SOC monitoring, MDR, audit-ready compliance, and a 39-layer ZeroHack stack - for SMBs in healthcare, defense, finance, and legal across the Raleigh-Durham Triangle.
Why SMBs are now the primary target
Attackers moved downmarket. Ransomware crews, state-sponsored actors, and AI-powered phishing kits hit small and mid-sized businesses harder than enterprises - because most SMBs still rely on a firewall, antivirus, and luck.
What you face today
- Ransomware-as-a-service crews with 14-day average dwell time before detonation.
- AI-generated phishing that bypasses spam filters and clones internal voices.
- Stolen credentials traded on the dark web within hours of a breach.
- Supply-chain compromise through unpatched RMM tools and MSP backdoors.
- Insider mistakes - unsanctioned SaaS, Shadow AI, exposed S3 buckets.
What we put in front of it
- 24/7 SOC analysts triaging alerts in under 15 minutes - not next business day.
- MDR + EDR with active rollback on ransomware encryption events.
- Continuous dark web monitoring for stolen credentials and brand impersonation.
- Quarterly security audits against NIST CSF, HIPAA, and CMMC controls.
- Tabletop exercises and a written incident response playbook on day one.
39 layers of defense, one team
ZeroHack is our defense-in-depth stack: identity, endpoint, network, email, cloud, data, and human layers wired into a single 24/7 SOC. We replace 5+ vendors with one accountable team running managed cybersecurity end-to-end.
Managed Cybersecurity
Round-the-clock monitoring, threat hunting, ransomware rollback, and patching. The full ZeroHack stack run by humans - not just a dashboard you have to babysit.
See managed cyber →Security Audits
Gap assessments, risk registers, and remediation roadmaps mapped to the framework your auditor or insurer asks for. Evidence packaged for renewal.
Book an audit →Dark Web Monitoring
We watch underground forums, paste sites, and breach dumps for your domain, executives, and customer data - then force a rotation before the credential is weaponized.
Check exposure →Incident Response
Active breach? Containment, forensics, ransomware negotiation, and SEC/HIPAA breach notification - with chain-of-custody preserved for legal.
Read the playbook →Before vs. after Petronella
What changes when you stop trying to run security with a part-time IT generalist and switch to a credentialed team running a real stack.
Alerts ignored or buried
Antivirus pops a warning. Nobody on the team knows what to do, so it gets dismissed. Dwell time stretches into weeks.
Compliance is a fire drill
Every audit kicks off a 90-day scramble to gather evidence, write policies, and justify gaps to the assessor.
Insurance keeps denying claims
Your cyber policy excludes ransomware payouts because MFA wasn't enforced or backups weren't tested.
Triage in 15 minutes
SOC analyst opens a ticket, isolates the host, rolls back the encryption attempt, and sends you the timeline before lunch.
Compliance on autopilot
Evidence is collected continuously. The 2026 Survival Guide + ComplianceArmor gives you renewal-ready binders.
Premiums drop, claims pay
You hand the carrier a clean SOC 2 / NIST CSF report. Renewals come back lower, claims actually pay out.
From contract to covered in 30 days
No 6-month "implementation phase." We deploy the ZeroHack stack and stand up monitoring inside the first month, then layer compliance and tabletop work behind it.
Week 1: Assessment + agent deployment
Week 2-3: SOC tuning, MFA, backups verified
Week 4: Tabletop, IR plan, audit kickoff
Built for regulated SMBs
We focus on industries where a single breach triggers a regulator, an insurer, and a lawsuit at the same time.
"Most MSPs sell cybersecurity as a checkbox. We run it like a discipline - with credentialed humans behind every alert and a written playbook for every incident."
Petronella Technology Group is a CMMC-AB Registered Provider Organization, BBB A+ accredited since 2003, and a North Carolina SBSAP authorized provider. Our team holds the certifications buyers and auditors actually look for - not generic IT badges.
We pair the human SOC with our AI security stack for behavioral detection and shadow-AI governance. Result: faster triage, fewer false positives, and a defensible record when your insurer or assessor comes asking.
Cybersecurity services
Pick the path that matches what you need next. Or call Penny - she'll book your free 15-minute consult.
Managed Cybersecurity Services
24/7 SOC, MDR, EDR, and the full 39-layer ZeroHack stack - one team, one invoice, one accountable phone number.
See managed cyber →Cybersecurity Audit Services
Gap assessments and risk audits mapped to NIST CSF, HIPAA, CMMC, and SOC 2 - with a remediation roadmap, not just a report.
Book an audit →Dark Web Monitoring
Continuous surveillance of underground forums, breach dumps, and paste sites for your domains, executives, and customer data.
Check exposure →Incident Response
Active breach playbook: containment, forensics, ransomware negotiation, and breach notification with chain-of-custody preserved.
Read the playbook →AI Security Guide
Govern Shadow AI, lock down LLM data leakage, and use behavioral detection to catch what signature-based tools miss.
Read the AI guide →Security Packages
Fixed-price tiers for essentials, regulated, and CMMC-ready businesses - so you can budget security without surprise line items.
Compare packages →Cybersecurity by industry, framework, and resource
- Industry verticals
- Healthcare cybersecurity
- Defense contractor cybersecurity
- Financial industry cybersecurity
- Banking and finance security
- Manufacturing security
- Law firm cybersecurity
- Federal government cybersecurity
- Cybersecurity for SaaS
- Compliance frameworks
- CMMC compliance
- HIPAA compliance
- Compliance hub
- Cybersecurity compliance overview
- Related resources
- 2026 cybersecurity outlook
- Digital forensics guide
- AI security and shadow-AI guide
- AI-powered threat detection
- Private GPU servers for SOC AI
Service areas + city pages (84)
- Raleigh / Triangle
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- Wake County
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- Fuquay-Varina consulting
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- Garner consulting
- Knightdale
- Knightdale consulting
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- Rolesville consulting
- Wake Forest
- Wake Forest consulting
- Wendell
- Wendell consulting
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- Zebulon consulting
- Johnston / Harnett / Lee
- Clayton
- Clayton consulting
- Smithfield
- Smithfield consulting
- Angier
- Angier consulting
- Sanford
- Sanford consulting
- Triad / Greater NC
- Burlington
- Burlington consulting
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- Mebane consulting
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- Greensboro consulting
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- High Point consulting
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- Winston-Salem consulting
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- Specialized pages
- Cybersecurity assessment
- Cybersecurity compliance
- Consulting firms
- For SaaS
- Keynote speaker
Common questions
Are you an MSP or an MSSP?
How fast do you respond to an active incident?
Will this satisfy my cyber insurance application?
Do you handle CMMC and HIPAA compliance directly?
What does it cost?
Do you only work with Triangle businesses?
Ready to talk?
Call Penny - she answers before the third ring, asks 3 qualifying questions, then books your free 15.