Cybersecurity Consulting in Winston-Salem, NC

Winston-Salem’s healthcare networks, financial institutions, and research laboratories operate around the clock. Attackers target off-hours when staffing is reduced. Our Managed Security Service Provider offering provides continuous monitoring through a dedicated Security Operations Center that never sleeps.

We deploy Extended Detection and Response across endpoints, servers, network perimeter, cloud infrastructure, email, and identity platforms. Alerts are triaged by human analysts who understand Winston-Salem’s operational rhythms — distinguishing a night-shift nurse accessing patient records from an attacker moving laterally through your healthcare network. Threats are contained and eradicated with minimal disruption to clinical, research, or financial operations.

Included: 24/7/365 monitoring, XDR deployment, human-led alert triage, real-time threat containment, monthly posture reports, and quarterly executive threat briefings.

Winston-Salem’s concentration of healthcare providers — from Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist affiliates to independent practices throughout Forsyth County — creates enormous HIPAA compliance obligations. We implement comprehensive HIPAA programs covering administrative, physical, and technical safeguards.

For healthcare practices in Winston-Salem, we conduct annual risk assessments, develop and maintain policies and procedures, deliver workforce security training with simulated phishing exercises, manage business associate agreements, implement access controls and audit logging, and maintain all documentation in audit-ready format for OCR review. For organizations in the Innovation Quarter conducting clinical research, we address the intersection of HIPAA and 21 CFR Part 11 requirements.

Our team ensures that EHR platforms, patient portals, telehealth systems, and medical devices meet every HIPAA technical requirement while maintaining the performance clinical staff depend on.

Winston-Salem’s financial services sector — from the Truist legacy to regional community banks, insurance agencies, and wealth management firms — handles some of the most sensitive and targeted data in the economy. We build cybersecurity programs designed for GLBA Safeguards Rule compliance, PCI DSS certification, SOX controls, and the FFIEC Cybersecurity Assessment Tool framework.

Our engagements for Winston-Salem financial institutions cover network security architecture, access management and privileged account controls, encryption for data at rest and in transit, incident response planning with regulatory notification procedures, business continuity and disaster recovery, and third-party risk management for vendors and fintech partners.

For fintech companies in the Innovation Quarter, we implement security controls that satisfy both financial regulators and enterprise client security questionnaires.

Winston-Salem’s diverse economy creates attack surfaces spanning healthcare networks, financial platforms, research infrastructure, and manufacturing systems. Our penetration testing engagements simulate the tactics used by real-world attackers targeting Winston-Salem industries.

For healthcare organizations, we assess EHR access controls, patient portal security, medical device exposure, and telehealth platform vulnerabilities. For financial institutions, we test online banking platforms, payment processing systems, wire transfer controls, and third-party API integrations. For Innovation Quarter companies, we probe cloud infrastructure, application security, and research data repositories.

Every engagement delivers an executive summary for leadership and a detailed technical report with prioritized, actionable remediation guidance mapped to your compliance requirements.

Winston-Salem organizations frequently navigate multiple compliance frameworks simultaneously. A health-tech company in the Innovation Quarter might need HIPAA for patient data, SOC 2 for enterprise sales, and 21 CFR Part 11 for FDA-regulated applications. A financial services firm needs GLBA, PCI DSS, and SOX compliance. A manufacturer supplying defense customers needs CMMC and NIST 800-171.

Craig Petronella holds the CMMC Certified Registered Practitioner credential, and our team has deep expertise across every major compliance framework relevant to Winston-Salem’s economy. We build cross-mapped control sets that satisfy multiple frameworks with a single program — reducing audit fatigue, eliminating duplicate controls, and keeping compliance costs proportional to your organization’s size.

Our unified approach means one set of policies, one evidence repository, and one audit preparation process that covers all your regulatory obligations.

When a Winston-Salem healthcare practice discovers ransomware encrypting patient records or a financial firm detects unauthorized wire transfer attempts, the response in the first hours determines the outcome. Craig Petronella is a licensed digital forensic examiner with 30+ years of experience leading cyber incident investigations.

Our team follows NIST 800-61 methodology: preparation, detection and analysis, containment, eradication, recovery, and post-incident review. For HIPAA-covered entities, we assist with breach determination and the 60-day notification timeline. For financial institutions, we coordinate with banking regulators and implement enhanced fraud monitoring. For research organizations, we assess whether intellectual property or clinical data integrity has been compromised.

Services: Emergency response, forensic imaging and analysis, malware reverse engineering, breach notification support, regulatory liaison, insurance carrier coordination, and post-incident hardening.