Durham healthcare networks, biotech laboratories, and SaaS platforms operate around the clock. Attackers target the overnight hours when internal staff are off duty. 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 the operational rhythms of Durham’s industries — distinguishing a night-shift lab technician accessing a LIMS from an attacker moving laterally through your network. Genuine threats are contained and eradicated with minimal disruption to clinical, research, or business operations.

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

Durham’s concentration of healthcare providers — from Duke Health affiliates to independent practices along Erwin Road, in the Southpoint area, and throughout Durham County — creates enormous HIPAA compliance obligations. We implement comprehensive HIPAA programs covering all three safeguard categories.

Administrative safeguards include risk assessments, workforce training, incident response procedures, and business associate agreement management. Physical safeguards cover facility access, workstation security, and media disposal. Technical safeguards encompass access controls, audit logging, encryption at rest and in transit, and transmission security. We maintain all documentation in audit-ready format so your Durham practice is prepared for OCR review at all times.

For Durham practices using EHR platforms like Epic MyChart, Cerner, or specialty-specific systems, we ensure the underlying IT infrastructure meets every HIPAA technical requirement while maintaining the performance your clinical staff depends on.

Durham’s mix of healthcare, biotech, and SaaS creates diverse attack surfaces. Our penetration testing engagements simulate the tactics used by real-world attackers targeting Durham industries. Certified testers manually probe web applications, APIs, cloud configurations, internal networks, wireless infrastructure, and medical device network segments.

For biotech companies, we test laboratory network segmentation, instrument data pathways, and research data repositories. For SaaS firms in the Innovation District, we focus on cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and customer-facing application security. For healthcare providers, we assess EHR system access controls, patient portal security, and medical IoT device exposure.

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

Durham organizations frequently face multiple compliance mandates simultaneously. A health-tech startup might need HIPAA for patient data, SOC 2 for enterprise sales, and PCI DSS for payment processing. A defense-adjacent biotech firm handling CUI needs CMMC and NIST 800-171 in addition to 21 CFR Part 11 for FDA-regulated data.

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

For Durham SaaS companies pursuing SOC 2 Type II, we accelerate readiness by integrating evidence collection into the tools your team already uses — GitHub, Jira, Slack, and your cloud provider’s native logging.

When a Durham healthcare practice discovers ransomware encrypting its EHR server or a biotech startup detects unauthorized access to its compound database, 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 incident response methodology: preparation, detection and analysis, containment, eradication, recovery, and post-incident review. For HIPAA-covered entities, we assist with breach determination, the 60-day notification timeline, and OCR reporting. For biotech firms, we assess whether research data integrity or intellectual property has been compromised and help coordinate with legal counsel, insurance carriers, and regulatory bodies.

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

Durham’s Innovation District startups and established biotech firms alike rely on cloud infrastructure for production workloads, data storage, and analytics. Misconfigured cloud environments remain a leading cause of breaches globally. We assess and harden cloud deployments in AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud aligned with CIS Benchmarks and platform-specific security frameworks.

For Durham biotech companies using AWS for genomics pipelines or Azure for clinical data lakes, we ensure data encryption, access controls, network segmentation, and logging meet both HIPAA and FDA compliance requirements. For SaaS companies, we review IAM configurations, container security, CI/CD pipeline integrity, and Infrastructure-as-Code templates to eliminate vulnerabilities before they reach production.