Many Raleigh businesses that have grown quickly or recently entered regulated markets find their security investments accumulated organically without a coherent governance structure. They own firewalls and endpoint licenses but lack the strategic framework that ties individual tools into a defensible, measurable, and auditable security posture. Our program development engagement starts with a maturity assessment benchmarked against the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and CIS Controls. We evaluate capabilities across the identify, protect, detect, respond, and recover domains to produce a quantified maturity scorecard.

From that baseline, we build a multi-year security program plan that defines governance structures, establishes a policy hierarchy, sequences investments so the highest-impact improvements come first, and integrates compliance milestones for frameworks like CMMC, HIPAA, and SOC 2 directly into the roadmap. Raleigh companies preparing for state government contracts receive program documentation that satisfies the security provisions in the North Carolina Statewide Information Security Manual.

Raleigh's status as the state capital creates an unusually dense regulatory landscape. Defense contractors must comply with CMMC and NIST 800-171. Healthcare providers and their business associates must satisfy HIPAA Security and Privacy Rules. Financial institutions answer to GLBA, SOX, and state banking examiners. Retailers must maintain PCI DSS compliance. And every organization handling personal data of North Carolina residents must comply with the NC Identity Theft Protection Act (NCGS 75-61), which mandates reasonable security measures and breach notification within prescribed timelines.

Our compliance consulting identifies which frameworks apply to your operations, maps gaps between current controls and required controls, and builds a practical remediation roadmap with defined timelines and budgets. For organizations subject to multiple frameworks, we build cross-mapped control sets that exploit the sixty-to-eighty percent overlap between standards, dramatically reducing total compliance effort. Craig Petronella's CMMC Certified Registered Practitioner credential ensures our guidance aligns with current C3PAO assessment expectations.

You cannot defend what you do not understand. Our risk assessments follow NIST SP 800-30 methodology: we identify critical information assets, map threats and vulnerabilities, and evaluate each risk in terms of likelihood and impact to produce a prioritized risk register. For Raleigh organizations, the threat landscape includes nation-state actors targeting government agency contractors, financially motivated attackers exploiting the city's banking corridor, ransomware operators pressuring healthcare providers, and supply-chain threats propagating through the Research Triangle's interconnected technology ecosystem.

Beyond identification, we develop formal risk treatment plans that define whether each risk will be mitigated through new controls, transferred through insurance, accepted with documented rationale, or avoided through process changes. We also establish a risk governance cadence with regular reviews, exception-handling procedures, and board-level reporting so risk management becomes a continuous discipline rather than an annual checkbox.

Raleigh organizations that have grown through acquisition, cloud migration, or rapid scaling often discover their security architecture was designed for a simpler time. Our architecture review evaluates network segmentation, identity and access management, data encryption, endpoint protection, email security, backup and disaster recovery, SIEM and monitoring infrastructure, and cloud security posture across AWS, Azure, and GCP environments. For companies using Red Hat technologies like OpenShift or Ansible, we assess configurations against CIS hardening benchmarks.

The output is a detailed assessment report mapping your current state, identifying weaknesses, and recommending a target-state architecture with a phased migration plan. For organizations planning major infrastructure investments — a data center migration, cloud-first initiative, or zero-trust network redesign — our consulting ensures security is designed in from the start rather than retrofitted after deployment.

A full-time CISO commands over $200,000 annually in the Raleigh market before benefits and equity. For small and mid-sized businesses, that investment may not be justifiable — but the need for strategic security leadership does not diminish. Our virtual CISO service provides fractional access to a senior security executive who develops and maintains your security strategy, presents risk reports to the board, oversees compliance programs, manages vendor relationships, and leads incident response planning.

For companies pursuing state government contracts, a vCISO represents your organization in security reviews. For healthcare organizations, a vCISO serves as the HIPAA Security Officer. For companies approaching a capital raise, a vCISO demonstrates security maturity to investors who increasingly treat cybersecurity posture as a valuation factor.

In 2026, cybersecurity consulting that ignores artificial intelligence is incomplete. Threat actors are using AI to generate convincing phishing campaigns, automate vulnerability scanning, and evade traditional signature-based defenses. Your security strategy must account for these AI-driven threats while leveraging AI to strengthen your own defenses. PTG integrates AI-powered capabilities into every consulting engagement: automated risk scoring that processes hundreds of control assessments in minutes, machine-learning-driven threat modeling that identifies attack paths human analysts miss, and AI-powered compliance monitoring that continuously validates control effectiveness against framework requirements.

We also help Raleigh organizations develop AI governance frameworks that ensure their own AI deployments meet NIST AI RMF standards, protect sensitive data from model leakage, and satisfy emerging regulatory requirements. Whether you are implementing custom AI solutions or evaluating third-party AI tools, our consulting ensures security is embedded into every AI initiative from design through deployment.