Petronella Technology Blog

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.

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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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Security Chaos Engineering for AI-First Enterprises: Break Things Safely to Build Digital Resilience AI-first enterprises ship products that learn, reason, and act. They rely on models that ingest billions of tokens, use retrieval from proprietary knowledge bases, and call tools that can change customer data or trigger payments. This power comes with unique security risks: […]
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When the Users Are Bots: Zero-Trust Machine Identity, ITDR, and Secrets Hygiene Across Cloud, SaaS, and AI Pipelines Increasingly, the most active “users” in your environment aren’t people. They’re bots, service accounts, ephemeral containers, GitHub Apps, SaaS connectors, RPA scripts, data pipelines, build agents, and LLM-powered automations. These machine identities request tokens, call APIs, move […]
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Data Contracts Are the New SLAs: The Operating Model for Reliable AI, Analytics, and CRM Software organizations learned long ago that service level agreements (SLAs) and their more precise cousins—service level objectives (SLOs) and indicators (SLIs)—create a shared language for reliability. Today, data-driven teams need an equivalent. As data powers machine learning, real-time analytics, and […]
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From RBAC to Policy-as-Code: ABAC/PBAC for Securing LLMs, Vector Databases, and Enterprise AI Agents Enterprises are racing to adopt large language models (LLMs), vector databases, and autonomous or semi-autonomous AI agents. The speed and usefulness of these systems are undeniable—but so are the new security risks. Traditional role-based access control (RBAC) cannot keep up with […]
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NIST 800-50: Building an IT Security Awareness & Training Program Security breaches rarely begin with exotic zero-day exploits. More often, they start with human decisions—clicks, approvals, and oversights. NIST Special Publication 800-50, “Building an Information Technology Security Awareness and Training Program,” addresses this reality head-on by providing a practical blueprint for developing, operating, and improving […]
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Prompt Injection Is the New SQL Injection: A Security Playbook for Enterprise LLMs and AI Agents Introduction Enterprises raced to adopt large language models (LLMs) and AI agents for customer support, internal search, document drafting, coding help, and automated workflows. Then came a rude awakening: adversaries could steer these systems with carefully crafted text hidden […]
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Crypto-Agile by Design: Post-Quantum Readiness for Cloud, SaaS, and AI Pipelines Introduction: Why Crypto-Agile, Why Now Enterprises are standing on three converging tectonic plates: hyperscale cloud, software-as-a-service everywhere, and AI pipelines that connect data to decisions at breakneck speed. Each plate depends on cryptography—confidentiality, integrity, identity, and attestation—to function safely at scale. A looming fourth […]
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Fixing “OpenAI Error: OpenSSL SSL_read: SSL_ERROR_SYSCALL, errno 104” Few errors are as unsettling as a cryptic, low-level failure message popping up in the middle of a perfectly ordinary API call. If you’ve seen “OpenAI Error: OpenSSL SSL_read: SSL_ERROR_SYSCALL, errno 104,” you’re dealing with a connection that fell apart at the transport layer while TLS was […]
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