Cybersecurity Services

Cybersecurity Built for Growing Businesses.

Enterprise-grade cybersecurity solutions designed for small and mid-sized businesses. We protect your data, your reputation, and your bottom line from modern cyber threats.

60% of small businesses close within 6 months of a cyberattack.

What's Threatening Your Business?

Cybercriminals are increasingly targeting small and mid-sized businesses. Here are the top threats you need to defend against.

Ransomware

Malicious software that encrypts your data and demands payment. Average ransom demand exceeds $200,000.

Phishing

Deceptive emails that trick employees into revealing passwords, financial info, or installing malware.

Data Breach

Unauthorized access to sensitive customer or business data. Average cost per breach: $4.45 million.

Insider Threats

Malicious or careless employees who expose company data through negligence or intent.

Compliance Failures

Failing to meet HIPAA, PCI-DSS, or other regulatory requirements results in fines and legal liability.

Comprehensive Cybersecurity Services

A multi-layered defense strategy that protects every aspect of your business technology.

Threat Monitoring

24/7 real-time monitoring of your network, endpoints, and cloud systems for suspicious activity and emerging threats.

Endpoint Protection

Advanced endpoint detection and response (EDR) on every device. Stops malware, ransomware, and zero-day attacks in real time.

Security Assessments

Comprehensive vulnerability assessments and penetration testing to identify and remediate weaknesses before attackers exploit them.

Email Security

Advanced email filtering, anti-phishing protection, and domain authentication (DMARC, DKIM, SPF) to block threats at the inbox.

Security Training

Engaging employee security awareness training with simulated phishing campaigns to build a human firewall across your organization.

Compliance Support

Expert guidance for HIPAA, PCI-DSS, NIST, and other regulatory frameworks. Policy development, gap analysis, and audit preparation.

The PTG Security Framework

A four-phase approach to building and maintaining a robust security posture for your business.

1

Prevent

Proactive measures to stop threats before they reach your systems. Firewalls, endpoint protection, email security, access controls, and employee training form the first line of defense.

2

Detect

Continuous 24/7 monitoring with advanced threat detection tools that identify suspicious activity, anomalous behavior, and potential breaches in real time.

3

Respond

Rapid incident response procedures to contain threats, minimize damage, and protect critical systems. Our team acts immediately when a threat is detected.

4

Recover

Business continuity and disaster recovery to restore operations quickly. Backup restoration, forensic analysis, and post-incident improvements to prevent recurrence.

Regulatory Compliance Support

We help businesses meet the security standards required by their industry and regulators.

HIPAA

Healthcare data protection. We help medical practices, clinics, and healthcare businesses meet HIPAA security requirements.

PCI-DSS

Payment card security. We ensure businesses handling credit card data meet PCI-DSS requirements and pass compliance audits.

NIST

National Institute of Standards and Technology framework. We implement NIST cybersecurity best practices for comprehensive protection.

Cybersecurity Assessments for Municipalities

Cities, towns, utility districts, and public-sector agencies face a distinct threat landscape — legacy infrastructure, tight budgets, mandatory disclosure timelines, and citizen data that attackers actively target. PTG delivers cybersecurity assessments purpose-built for the way municipal governments actually operate.

Full Cybersecurity Posture Review

Comprehensive evaluation of network, endpoint, identity, cloud, and physical security controls across every department — mapped to CIS Controls v8 and the NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0.

Regulatory & Grant Alignment

Findings mapped to CJIS, HIPAA (for public health departments), IRS Publication 1075, PCI-DSS, and state-level breach notification statutes — with documentation suitable for CISA and state grant applications.

Vulnerability & Risk Assessment

External and internal vulnerability scans, phishing simulations, credential exposure checks, and prioritized risk register organized by likelihood, impact, and remediation cost.

Incident Response Readiness

Review of your incident response plan, tabletop exercises with council or department leadership, and 72-hour CIRCIA-aligned reporting workflows to ensure your team is ready before an incident occurs.

Vendor & Third-Party Risk

Assessment of the security posture of your critical vendors and SaaS providers — the source of a growing share of public-sector breaches — with due-diligence templates you can operationalize.

Executive & Council-Ready Reporting

Two deliverables from every engagement: a technical remediation roadmap for your IT staff, and a plain-language executive brief formatted for city managers, elected officials, and public review.

Working with Your Procurement Process

PTG is set up to work within public-sector procurement requirements — competitive bid packages, cooperative purchasing agreements, insurance and W-9 documentation, and per-engagement statements of work suitable for council approval. We can scope assessments as a fixed-fee engagement or on a phased basis aligned to your fiscal calendar.

Request a Municipality Assessment Proposal

Cybersecurity Assessments for Healthcare

Healthcare is the most targeted industry for ransomware and the most consequential when a breach occurs. PTG delivers HIPAA-aligned cybersecurity assessments for medical practices, clinics, behavioral health providers, dental groups, and healthcare-adjacent businesses that touch protected health information.

HIPAA Security Risk Analysis

Formal Security Risk Analysis (SRA) required by the HIPAA Security Rule §164.308(a)(1) — documented, dated, and structured to satisfy HHS OCR audit expectations and the 2026 HIPAA NPRM amendments.

PHI Access & Audit Controls

Review of who accesses PHI, how access is granted and revoked, audit log retention, and whether your EHR access patterns would withstand an OCR audit or breach investigation.

Business Associate Agreement Review

Audit of every BAA in place, gaps in vendor coverage, and identification of vendors that touch PHI without a signed agreement — a top OCR enforcement finding.

Medical Device & IoT Security

Assessment of connected medical devices, imaging equipment, and clinical IoT — including network segmentation, firmware currency, and vendor patching cadence for FDA-regulated devices.

Breach Notification Readiness

Review of your breach response plan against HIPAA’s 60-day notification requirement, state-specific breach laws, and documented workflows for HHS reporting and patient notification.

Policy & Documentation Package

Written policies covering the full HIPAA Security Rule requirements — sanction policy, workforce clearance, incident response, contingency plan, and evaluation — delivered in a format your practice can maintain.

Built for the Realities of Clinical Operations

Assessments are scoped so they do not disrupt patient care — scans and interviews are staged around clinical schedules, not the other way around. Deliverables include the SRA documentation regulators expect and a practical remediation plan your practice can actually execute.

Request a Healthcare Assessment Proposal

Cybersecurity Assessments for Financial Services

Banks, credit unions, RIAs, wealth managers, insurance agencies, accounting firms, and lenders all operate under overlapping cybersecurity mandates — FTC Safeguards Rule, GLBA, SEC Reg S-P, state banking regulations, and cyber insurance underwriting standards. PTG delivers assessments that address all of them in a single engagement.

FTC Safeguards Rule Assessment

Comprehensive review of your written Information Security Program (WISP) against the FTC Safeguards Rule — including risk assessment, access controls, encryption, MFA, incident response, and Qualified Individual designation.

SEC Reg S-P & Reg SCI Readiness

For registered investment advisers and broker-dealers: assessment against the 2024 Reg S-P amendments, including 30-day breach notification workflows and written incident response requirements.

GLBA & State Banking Compliance

Assessment against Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act safeguards, FFIEC guidance, and state-level financial data protection laws — with documentation your examiners will accept.

Wire Fraud & BEC Prevention

Targeted assessment of business email compromise controls, wire transfer verification workflows, and vendor payment change procedures — the leading loss category for small financial firms.

Cyber Insurance Alignment

Review of your current controls against 2026 cyber insurance underwriting questionnaires — MFA coverage, EDR deployment, backup verification, privileged access — to reduce premiums and avoid coverage denials at renewal.

Client Data & Confidentiality Controls

Assessment of how client financial data is stored, transmitted, and shared with third parties — including custodian integrations, portfolio management platforms, and secure client communication channels.

Documentation Your Examiners Expect

Every engagement produces the artifacts financial regulators and cyber insurers ask for: a written risk assessment, prioritized remediation roadmap, control evidence matrix, and executive-ready summary suitable for board or partner review.

Request a Financial Services Assessment Proposal

Cybersecurity Assessments for Manufacturing

Manufacturers face a dual attack surface — traditional IT plus operational technology (OT) that keeps the plant running. Add customer-imposed cybersecurity requirements, defense supply-chain mandates, and the growing convergence of IT and OT networks, and the assessment scope is meaningfully different from any other industry. PTG delivers assessments built for that reality.

IT/OT Convergence Assessment

Review of the boundary between corporate IT and shop-floor OT networks — including PLCs, SCADA systems, HMIs, and industrial IoT — with a focus on segmentation, monitoring, and safe patching cadence.

CMMC & DFARS Readiness

For defense supply-chain manufacturers: gap assessment against CMMC 2.0 Level 1 or Level 2, NIST SP 800-171 Rev 3, and DFARS 252.204-7012 — with a roadmap to formal certification.

Customer Cybersecurity Questionnaires

Preparation for the cybersecurity questionnaires large OEMs and prime contractors send to their supply base — with documented controls, evidence, and a defensible response that keeps you on approved vendor lists.

IP & Trade Secret Protection

Assessment of how CAD files, product designs, formulations, and proprietary processes are stored, transmitted, and accessed — with controls to reduce insider threat and IP exfiltration risk.

Operational Downtime Prevention

Assessment focused specifically on the controls that prevent production stoppages — ransomware-resistant backups for OT, tested recovery procedures, and segmented spare-parts systems that can operate offline.

Supply Chain & SBOM Review

Review of your vendor and software supply chain — including SBOM-based due diligence on the software running your OT environment, and continuous monitoring for supplier compromises.

Assessed Without Stopping Production

OT scans are scoped and staged in coordination with your plant operations team. Passive discovery methods are used on production systems by default, with active scanning limited to change windows agreed with your production schedule. No assessment activity puts a running line at risk.

Request a Manufacturing Assessment Proposal

Cybersecurity Assessments for Schools & Higher Ed

K-12 districts, private schools, charter schools, and small colleges are among the most heavily targeted sectors for ransomware, and they operate under a distinct regulatory framework — FERPA, COPPA, state student privacy laws, and E-Rate cybersecurity funding requirements. PTG delivers assessments built for education’s specific risk profile.

FERPA & Student Records Assessment

Review of how student education records are protected — access controls, sharing with third parties (EdTech vendors), retention practices, and directory information handling — aligned to FERPA and state student privacy laws.

COPPA & Under-13 Student Data

Assessment of controls around student data for users under 13, including parental consent documentation, EdTech vendor COPPA compliance verification, and data minimization in classroom platforms.

EdTech Vendor Due Diligence

Review of the SaaS platforms and EdTech tools deployed across classrooms — including data privacy agreements, breach histories, and shadow IT surfaced by teachers adopting tools outside official procurement.

E-Rate Cybersecurity Funding Support

Assessment documentation aligned to E-Rate Cybersecurity Pilot Program eligibility — helping schools quantify need, justify controls, and prepare application-ready security posture reports.

1:1 Device & Classroom Security

Assessment of student and staff device management (Chromebook fleets, iPad carts, Windows labs), content filtering compliance with CIPA, and safe classroom network segmentation.

Ransomware & Continuity Planning

Review of ransomware defenses and continuity plans that keep instruction going — including tested backups, alternative instructional workflows, and communication plans for families during an incident.

Built for the School Calendar and Budget

Assessments are staged to work around the academic calendar, with deliverables scoped for school board review and superintendent-level executive summaries. Documentation supports E-Rate applications, state cybersecurity grants, and cyber insurance renewals.

Request an Education Assessment Proposal

Get Your Free Security Posture Review

We'll score your current cyber posture against NIST and CIS frameworks, identify your highest-risk exposures, and deliver a prioritized remediation plan — at no cost.

Book Your Free Security Review

Cybersecurity Questions

How often should my business conduct a security assessment?

We recommend a full IT Resilience Assessment at least annually, paired with quarterly vulnerability scans and continuous endpoint monitoring. Businesses in regulated industries (healthcare, finance) or those handling sensitive data should consider more frequent assessments. Additionally, any major infrastructure change should trigger a reassessment.

Is cybersecurity really necessary for a small business?

Absolutely. Small businesses are actually the most targeted by cybercriminals because they often have weaker defenses than large enterprises. According to the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, 43% of cyberattacks target small businesses, and the costs of a breach can be devastating — sometimes enough to shut a business down permanently.

What's the first step in improving our cybersecurity?

The first step is a IT Resilience Assessment — a structured review of your cyber posture, Zero Trust readiness, compliance gaps, and infrastructure health. This gives you a scored baseline and a prioritized roadmap so you know exactly what to fix first. From there, we typically start with the highest-risk items: email security, endpoint protection, and employee training.

How does employee security training work?

Our security awareness training program includes regular online training modules, simulated phishing campaigns, and quarterly security updates. Employees learn to identify phishing emails, practice safe password habits, understand social engineering tactics, and follow data handling best practices. We track progress and provide reports on organizational security awareness levels.

What happens if we experience a cyberattack?

If you're a PTG client, our incident response team activates immediately. We contain the threat, assess the damage, begin recovery procedures, and work to restore operations as quickly as possible. We also conduct a thorough investigation to understand how the breach occurred and implement measures to prevent recurrence. We maintain business continuity plans and backup systems specifically for these scenarios.

Frequently asked questions

What is included in PTG's cybersecurity services?

PTG's cybersecurity stack includes 24/7 threat monitoring (MDR), endpoint detection and response (EDR), identity security with MFA and conditional access, email security and anti-phishing, backup verification, security awareness training, compliance audits (SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI, FTC Safeguards), and incident response.

How much does small business cybersecurity cost?

Small business cybersecurity typically costs $50 to $150 per user per month depending on compliance scope, industry, and stack complexity. Bundling with managed IT reduces per-user cost significantly.

Do you help with cyber insurance requirements?

Yes. PTG regularly helps clients meet cyber insurance underwriting requirements including MFA everywhere, EDR on all endpoints, immutable backups, incident response plans, and security awareness training. We provide underwriter-ready evidence packages.

What compliance frameworks does PTG support?

PTG supports HIPAA, PCI-DSS, SOC 2 Type II, FTC Safeguards Rule, NIST CSF 2.0, NIST 800-171, Florida FIPA, and CJIS. Compliance work includes gap assessments, remediation, ongoing evidence collection, and audit-readiness.

What happens if my business has a ransomware attack?

PTG provides incident response with a documented 72-hour playbook: contain the attack, assess damage, restore from clean backups, coordinate with law enforcement and cyber insurance, and complete a post-incident report with remediation recommendations.

Do you offer a free security assessment?

Yes. PTG offers a free IT resilience assessment covering endpoint security, identity, backup, network, and compliance posture. Contact us to schedule.