Petronella Cybersecurity and Digital Forensics

Craig Petronella is the founder of Petronella Technology Group, Inc. (PTG) an internationally trusted IT cybersecurity and compliance consulting group with over 30 years’ experience helping federal contractors and businesses with cybersecurity and compliance regulations, and who’s patented 22-layer systems cover your People, Processes and Technology.

Craig is an Amazon #1 Best-Selling Author of many books, including “The Ultimate Guide To CMMC”, founder of the podcast Cybersecurity and Compliance with Craig Petronella - CMMC, NIST, DFARS, HIPAA, GDPR, ISO27001 https://petronellatech.buzzsprout.com/ and is an MIT Certified Professional in AI, Blockchain, Cybersecurity and Compliance.

Almost all of Craig's clients are earned by referral with little or no advertising, and he is well-known and highly-regarded in professional circles throughout the US, after serving as compliance consultant and conducting onsite risk assessments for over 500 medical practices, hospitals, and business associates across the country.

Continuity of your business operations starts with cybersafety.

PTG provides Cybersecurity & Compliance Consulting Services, including:

We help defense contractors, medical practices, law firms and various businesses that are regulation comply with ANY regulation, including:

  • CMMC
  • DFARS
  • NIST 800-53 & 171
  • DFARS
  • HIPAA & HITECH
  • SOX
  • All ISO & SOC levels
  • & Many More...

We serve customers across all sectors in public & private organizations. We understand that each industry and organization has unique IT challenges and our expertise enables us to help you navigate the regulatory mandates and customize a solution tailored to your needs.

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When Apps Talk to Apps: Securing the SaaS-to-SaaS Supply Chain with SSPM, OAuth Scopes, and Least Privilege Your business no longer lives inside a single suite like email or CRM. It thrives on an ecosystem of connected software-as-a-service products—HR systems syncing to collaboration platforms, marketing tools pulling segments from data warehouses, finance apps automating billing […]
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The Third State of Data Security: Confidential Computing for AI—Protecting Data-in-Use with TEEs on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Why “Data-in-Use” Is the New Frontier Organizations have learned to encrypt data at rest and in transit. Yet the moment data is decrypted to be processed—especially by AI models—it becomes exposed to the operating system, hypervisor, […]
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The Cookie Jar Is Empty: Privacy-First AI Personalization with Data Clean Rooms and First-Party Signals in a Cookieless World For more than two decades, third-party cookies fueled the machinery of digital personalization. They stitched together journeys across sites, powered retargeting, and gave marketers the illusion of omniscience. That era is ending. Major browsers already block […]
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From Passwords to Passkeys: Enterprise Identity Architecture, FIDO2/WebAuthn Migration, and Phishing-Resistant MFA at Scale Enterprises are moving beyond passwords, OTPs, and push approvals toward phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication built on passkeys and the FIDO2/WebAuthn standards. The shift is more than swapping one factor for another; it reshapes identity architecture, user experience, device trust, and the security […]
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Policy-as-Code for AI Agents: Identity, Least-Privilege, and Auditability for Safe Enterprise Automation Enterprises are racing to deploy AI agents that read, write, and act across systems—triaging incidents, reconciling invoices, drafting agreements, or fetching data on demand. The leverage is enormous, but so is the blast radius if things go wrong: a prompt-injected agent can exfiltrate […]
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When the Internet Sneezes: How the Recent Cloudflare Outage Ripples Across U.S. Websites The recent Cloudflare outage was a reminder that modern websites in the United States share more infrastructure than many realize. What looked like “my favorite site is down” to everyday users was, in many cases, a systemic event—DNS lookups timing out, content […]
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Diagnosing and Fixing “OpenAI Error: OpenSSL SSL_read: SSL_ERROR_SYSCALL, errno 104” Few errors cause as much confusion as a TLS read failure that bubbles up from OpenSSL with “SSL_ERROR_SYSCALL” and Linux errno 104. When this pops up during an OpenAI API call—often in the middle of a streaming response—it can feel like the server suddenly “hung […]
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Data Contracts Are the New APIs: Productizing Data for Reliable, Compliant Analytics and AI Why Data Contracts, Why Now Software teams would never ship a service without a clear API, versioning strategy, and uptime guarantees. Yet data teams routinely push breaking changes to tables, rely on best-effort refreshes, and leave consumers guessing what fields mean. […]
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Zero ETL, Real-Time Enterprise: Direct Data Sharing That Simplifies Analytics, AI, and Compliance For decades, organizations have moved data from where it’s created to where it’s analyzed through extract-transform-load (ETL) pipelines. That model introduced delay, duplicated data, and accumulated governance risk. “Zero ETL” turns this on its head by making data available for analytics, AI, […]
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Zero Trust for the Factory Floor: Securing OT/ICS Without Slowing Production Introduction: The Factory Floor Paradox Manufacturing plants and industrial sites face a paradox: the same operational technology (OT) and industrial control systems (ICS) that keep product moving and workers safe are increasingly exposed to cyber threats that can halt production—and even endanger life. For […]
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