Cybersecurity Consulting in Greensboro, NC

Greensboro manufacturers, healthcare providers, and logistics companies operate around the clock. Attackers target overnight shifts when IT staff are unavailable and production systems are running unattended. Our Managed Security Service Provider offering provides continuous monitoring through a dedicated Security Operations Center staffed by experienced analysts who never sleep.

We deploy Extended Detection and Response across endpoints, servers, industrial control systems, network perimeter, cloud infrastructure, and email platforms. Alerts are triaged by human analysts who understand Greensboro’s operational environment — differentiating a third-shift CNC operator accessing an ERP system from an attacker moving laterally through your manufacturing network. Genuine threats are contained and eradicated with minimal disruption to production schedules.

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

Greensboro’s manufacturing environment presents unique cybersecurity challenges. Operational Technology networks running SCADA systems, programmable logic controllers, and industrial IoT sensors often lack the security controls standard in IT environments. Legacy equipment running outdated firmware connects to modern ERP and MES platforms, creating attack paths that threat actors exploit.

We specialize in IT/OT convergence security for manufacturers along the Triad corridor. Our approach begins with network segmentation between enterprise IT and industrial control systems, ensuring a breach in one environment cannot propagate to the other. We assess SCADA system access controls, PLC firmware integrity, industrial protocol security, and the increasingly common cloud connections that link factory floor data to analytics platforms.

For Greensboro manufacturers pursuing defense contracts, we implement NIST 800-171 and CMMC controls that protect Controlled Unclassified Information while maintaining production uptime.

Cone Health operates five hospitals and over 100 physician practices across the Greensboro area. Add independent medical groups, dental practices, behavioral health providers, and urgent care centers, and Greensboro’s healthcare sector generates an enormous volume of protected health information. We implement comprehensive HIPAA programs covering all three safeguard categories.

Administrative safeguards include risk assessments, workforce training with phishing simulations, incident response procedures, and business associate agreement management. Physical safeguards cover facility access controls, workstation positioning, and media destruction. Technical safeguards encompass role-based access controls, audit logging, encryption at rest and in transit, and session management. Every control is documented in audit-ready format.

For Greensboro practices using Epic, Cerner, eClinicalWorks, or specialty-specific EHR platforms, we ensure the infrastructure meets HIPAA technical requirements without degrading the clinical workflow your providers depend on.

Greensboro’s diverse economy creates attack surfaces that span manufacturing control systems, university research networks, healthcare portals, and enterprise cloud platforms. Our penetration testing engagements simulate the tactics that real-world attackers use against Triad organizations.

For manufacturers, we test OT/IT boundary security, ERP system access controls, VPN configurations that remote engineers use, and supply chain partner access points. For universities, we probe student information systems, research data repositories, and wireless networks that thousands of students and faculty rely on daily. For healthcare providers, we assess patient portal security, medical device network exposure, and EHR access controls.

Every engagement delivers an executive summary for leadership and a detailed technical report with prioritized remediation guidance that maps to your specific compliance requirements.

Greensboro organizations frequently face overlapping compliance mandates. A manufacturer supplying both defense and commercial customers might need CMMC for DoD contracts, SOC 2 for enterprise clients, and ITAR for export-controlled items. A university research lab conducting DoD-funded work needs NIST 800-171 alongside FERPA for student data.

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

For Greensboro technology companies pursuing SOC 2 Type II, we integrate evidence collection into your engineering workflow — GitHub, Jira, Azure DevOps — so compliance becomes part of your development process rather than a separate burden.

When a Greensboro manufacturer discovers ransomware encrypting its production management system or a healthcare practice detects unauthorized access to patient records, the response within the first hours determines the financial and operational 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 manufacturers, we assess whether production data, customer specifications, or CUI has been compromised. For healthcare organizations, we assist with HIPAA breach determination, the 60-day notification timeline, and OCR reporting.

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