IT White Papers & Expert Technology Resources
Access free, in-depth educational content written by PTG's cybersecurity and IT experts. Our white papers, technology guides, and assessment frameworks are built from 22+ years of real-world experience protecting and empowering over 2,500 businesses across the Raleigh-Durham Triangle. Whether you are evaluating your security posture, planning a cloud migration, or navigating compliance requirements, our practitioner-authored resources give you the knowledge to make confident technology decisions.
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Threat prevention & best practices
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Making Critical IT Decisions Without Expert Guidance
The technology landscape changes faster than most organizations can keep up with. Without reliable, expert-level resources, businesses face costly mistakes and dangerous blind spots.
Evolving Cybersecurity Threats
The cybersecurity threat landscape shifts daily. Ransomware attacks increased by over 150% in recent years, and attackers continuously develop new methods to breach defenses. Business leaders and IT managers need current, authoritative information to understand which threats are most relevant to their industry and what concrete steps they should take to protect their organizations. Generic online articles and vendor-sponsored content often lack the depth and specificity required to make real security improvements. Without practitioner-level guidance, businesses remain vulnerable to attacks that could have been prevented with the right knowledge.
Shifting Compliance Requirements
Regulatory frameworks such as NIST, CMMC, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS continue to evolve, introducing new requirements and raising the bar for what constitutes adequate security. Organizations in healthcare, legal, financial services, and government contracting must stay current with these changes or risk penalties, lost contracts, and reputational damage. Navigating compliance documentation is complex and time-consuming, and most businesses do not have dedicated compliance staff. They need clear, actionable resources that translate dense regulatory language into practical implementation steps that their teams can actually follow and execute.
Complex Technology Decisions
From cloud migration strategies to network infrastructure upgrades, disaster recovery planning to vendor selection, business leaders face a constant stream of technology decisions that have long-term implications for their operations and budgets. Making these decisions without expert context leads to overspending on solutions that do not fit, underinvesting in critical areas, and implementing technologies that create more problems than they solve. The stakes are especially high for small and mid-sized businesses in the Raleigh-Durham Triangle, where a single bad technology decision can derail growth for years.
Real-World Expertise Distilled Into Actionable Guides
Petronella Technology Group has spent over two decades on the front lines of cybersecurity and IT management, protecting businesses across the Raleigh-Durham Triangle from threats that grow more sophisticated every year. Our white papers and technology resources represent the distillation of that experience into practical, accessible guides that any business leader, IT manager, or technology decision-maker can use to strengthen their organization's security posture and make smarter technology investments.
Unlike content produced by marketing teams or outsourced to freelance writers, every PTG resource is authored by the same engineers, compliance specialists, and cybersecurity professionals who serve our 2,500+ client base daily. When we write about ransomware prevention, it is because our team has responded to active incidents and knows exactly which controls stop attacks in practice. When we publish a cloud migration guide, it reflects the lessons we have learned from hundreds of successful migrations, including the pitfalls that most organizations discover too late.
Our commitment to thought leadership is rooted in a simple belief: when businesses in our community are better informed, everyone benefits. Organizations that understand cybersecurity threats make better decisions. Companies that grasp compliance requirements protect their customers and their reputations. Leaders who can evaluate technology options objectively avoid costly mistakes and deploy solutions that genuinely move their businesses forward. That is why every PTG white paper is available at no cost and without obligation.
Each resource is structured for practical application. We do not write academic theory or high-level overviews that leave readers wondering what to do next. Our guides include specific recommendations, step-by-step implementation checklists, decision frameworks, and real-world examples drawn from our extensive experience in the Triangle. Whether you are a CEO trying to understand your risk exposure, an IT director evaluating new solutions, or a compliance officer preparing for an audit, PTG's resources provide the clarity and confidence you need to move forward.
White Paper Categories & Expert Guides
Explore our comprehensive library of practitioner-authored resources covering every critical area of IT and cybersecurity for Triangle businesses.
Cybersecurity Best Practices
Our cybersecurity white papers provide the tactical knowledge your organization needs to defend against modern threats. These guides cover essential topics including multi-layered defense strategies, endpoint detection and response implementation, employee security awareness training programs, phishing prevention techniques, and zero-trust architecture planning. You will learn how to evaluate your current security stack, identify the gaps that attackers exploit most frequently, and implement the specific controls that PTG has used to maintain a strong security track record for clients on our managed program across 2,500+ companies. Each guide includes actionable checklists that your IT team can begin implementing immediately, along with metrics to measure the effectiveness of your security improvements over time. Whether you are building a security program from scratch or hardening an existing infrastructure, these resources give you the practitioner-level guidance to get it right.
Cloud Migration Guides
Moving to the cloud is one of the most consequential technology decisions a business can make, and getting it wrong is expensive. PTG's cloud migration white papers walk you through the entire journey, from initial assessment and workload analysis to provider selection, migration execution, and post-migration optimization. You will learn how to evaluate whether public, private, or hybrid cloud architectures best fit your operational requirements and budget. Our guides cover critical considerations that many organizations overlook, including data sovereignty, egress cost projections, application dependency mapping, and security configuration for cloud-native environments. Drawn from hundreds of successful migrations we have executed for Triangle businesses, these resources help you avoid the common pitfalls that lead to budget overruns, performance degradation, and security gaps during cloud transitions.
Compliance & NIST Frameworks
Navigating regulatory compliance can feel overwhelming, especially for small and mid-sized organizations without dedicated compliance teams. PTG's compliance white papers translate complex frameworks including NIST Cybersecurity Framework, CMMC, HIPAA, SOC 2, and PCI-DSS into clear, implementable guidance. You will learn how to conduct a self-assessment against each framework, understand which controls are most critical for your industry, build a prioritized remediation roadmap, and prepare documentation for audits and assessments. Our guides pay special attention to the intersection of compliance and practical security, because meeting a regulatory checkbox is meaningless if it does not actually protect your organization. These resources are invaluable for businesses pursuing government contracts, handling protected health information, or processing payment card data in the Raleigh-Durham market.
Disaster Recovery Planning
When disaster strikes, whether it is a ransomware attack, hardware failure, natural disaster, or human error, the organizations that recover quickly are the ones that planned ahead. PTG's disaster recovery white papers provide comprehensive frameworks for building, testing, and maintaining recovery capabilities that actually work under pressure. You will learn how to calculate your true recovery time objectives and recovery point objectives, design backup architectures that resist ransomware encryption, establish communication protocols for crisis situations, and build runbooks that your team can execute under stress. Our guides also cover the often-neglected topic of disaster recovery testing, including how to conduct tabletop exercises and live failover drills that expose gaps before a real incident occurs. These resources draw directly from PTG's experience managing disaster recovery for organizations across the Triangle.
Network Infrastructure
Your network is the foundation that every business application, communication system, and security control depends upon. PTG's network infrastructure white papers help you understand modern network architecture principles, evaluate your current infrastructure against best practices, and plan upgrades that deliver measurable performance and security improvements. Topics include network segmentation strategies that limit lateral movement during breaches, SD-WAN deployment for multi-site organizations, wireless network security for hybrid workforces, bandwidth optimization techniques, and monitoring strategies that provide visibility into threats and performance issues. You will learn how to assess whether your network can support current and future business requirements, identify bottlenecks and single points of failure, and build a phased modernization plan that minimizes disruption while maximizing the return on your infrastructure investment.
Business Continuity
Business continuity extends beyond disaster recovery to encompass every aspect of keeping your organization operational during disruptions. PTG's business continuity white papers provide strategic frameworks for building organizational resilience that covers people, processes, and technology. You will learn how to conduct business impact analyses that identify your most critical functions and their dependencies, develop continuity plans that address scenarios ranging from pandemics to cyberattacks, establish alternate operating procedures for key business processes, and create communication plans that keep stakeholders informed during disruptions. Our guides also address the human element of business continuity, including workforce continuity planning, cross-training strategies, and leadership succession considerations. These resources help Triangle businesses build the kind of comprehensive resilience that ensures operations continue regardless of what challenges arise.
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919-348-4912Additional Expert Resources From PTG
Our white papers are part of a broader ecosystem of tools and assessments designed to help Triangle businesses make informed technology decisions and strengthen their security posture.
Complete Resource Library
Browse PTG's full collection of white papers, case studies, technology guides, and educational materials. Our resource library is organized by topic and industry, making it easy to find the specific guidance you need. New resources are added monthly, covering emerging threats, technology trends, and compliance updates relevant to businesses in the Raleigh-Durham Triangle and beyond. Bookmark this page and check back regularly for the latest expert content from our team.
16 Critical Questions for Hiring an IT Company
One of our most downloaded resources, this essential guide gives business leaders a proven framework for evaluating IT service providers. Before you sign a contract with any managed IT company, use these 16 questions to assess their security practices, response capabilities, compliance expertise, and pricing transparency. This guide has helped hundreds of Triangle businesses avoid costly mistakes and find technology partners they can genuinely trust.
Free NIST Cybersecurity Assessment
Complement your white paper research with a hands-on evaluation of your organization's security posture. PTG's complimentary NIST Cybersecurity Framework assessment provides a detailed analysis of your current defenses, identifies critical vulnerabilities, and delivers a prioritized remediation roadmap tailored to your industry and risk profile. This assessment is available to businesses throughout Raleigh, Durham, RTP, and the greater Triangle area at no cost or obligation.
Why Trust PTG's Technology Resources
Not all IT content is created equal. Here is what sets PTG's white papers and guides apart from the noise.
22+ Years of Practitioner Experience
Every white paper and guide published by PTG is grounded in over two decades of hands-on IT and cybersecurity experience. Our authors do not research topics from the outside looking in; they write from the trenches, drawing on thousands of engagements, incident responses, migrations, and assessments. This practitioner perspective means our recommendations are battle-tested and proven effective in real business environments, not theoretical exercises that sound good on paper but fall apart in practice.
2,500+ Companies, zero breaches among clients following our security program
Our strong security track record for clients on our managed program across 2,500+ client engagements is not just a statistic; it is proof that the strategies and best practices we share in our white papers actually work. When we recommend a security control, a compliance approach, or an infrastructure design, it is because we have deployed it successfully at scale. This track record gives our readers confidence that the guidance in our resources represents genuine best practices, not untested theory or vendor marketing dressed up as expertise.
Genuinely Actionable Content
PTG does not publish vague overviews or surface-level introductions. Every resource we create is structured for immediate application, with specific recommendations, implementation checklists, decision frameworks, and real-world examples. Our readers are busy professionals who need to know what to do, not just what to think about. That commitment to actionability is why IT directors, compliance officers, and business leaders across the Triangle rely on PTG's resources as their go-to reference when facing technology decisions.
Local Expertise, Community Commitment
Based in Raleigh and deeply rooted in the Triangle business community, PTG publishes free educational content because we believe a more informed business community is a more secure business community. Our white papers address the specific challenges facing organizations in Raleigh, Durham, Research Triangle Park, and Chapel Hill, including the compliance requirements of the region's healthcare, government, and technology sectors. This is not generic content; it is expert guidance from your neighbors who understand the local landscape.
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