About Petronella Training Academy
Empowering organizations to achieve and maintain compliance excellence through expert-led training built by certified practitioners.
Our Mission
At Petronella Training Academy, we believe that compliance shouldn't be complicated. Our mission is to provide accessible, comprehensive, and engaging compliance training that helps organizations of all sizes protect their data, meet regulatory requirements, and build a culture of security awareness.
Petronella Technology Group has provided cybersecurity and compliance services since 2002. Craig Petronella, CISSP, CISM, CMMC-RP, has 20+ years of hands-on IT and cybersecurity experience. Our courses are designed by practitioners who run these tools in production daily, and updated continuously to reflect regulatory changes.
Our Story
Founded by cybersecurity professionals with decades of combined experience, Petronella Training Academy emerged from a simple observation: organizations struggle to keep pace with evolving compliance requirements, and traditional training methods often fall short.
We developed our platform to bridge this gap, combining expert knowledge with modern learning techniques to create training programs that are not only comprehensive but actually engaging.
Today, we're the compliance training partner for North Carolina businesses — from small firms preparing for their first CMMC audit to enterprise teams rolling out company-wide security awareness programs.
Our Values
The principles that guide everything we do
Excellence
We maintain the highest standards in content quality and accuracy.
Accessibility
Compliance training should be available to organizations of all sizes.
Innovation
We continuously improve our platform and learning methods.
Integrity
We practice what we preach in data protection and security.
Meet Our Instructor
Learn from an industry veteran with decades of real-world experience
Craig Petronella
CEO & Lead Instructor
CMMC, Cybersecurity, Digital Forensics20+ years in cybersecurity and compliance. Expert in CMMC, NIST, HIPAA, and digital forensics. Author and speaker on cybersecurity best practices.
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