Author Archives: AIS
AWS Security Remediation for HIPAA and SOC Compliance
A healthcare technology company needed its AWS platform brought in line with HIPAA and SOC [...]
Moving a Statewide Nonprofit to Azure Virtual Desktops and Modern Device Management
A statewide nonprofit retired its on-premises servers, moved staff to Azure Virtual Desktop, and standardized [...]
Layering Managed Cybersecurity and Cloud Infrastructure Onto a Long-Standing Union Partnership
A regional electrical workers union added Managed Detection and Response and Azure-hosted infrastructure to its [...]
Modernizing Security Operations for a Major U.S. Airport Authority
A federally regulated airport authority needed a modern MDR program with zero coverage gap. AIS [...]
What Business Intelligence Consulting Actually Involves
Most BI projects fail before a single dashboard is built. The work that determines the [...]
What Belongs in an IT Roadmap (and What Does Not)
Most IT roadmaps are lists of things somebody wants to buy. A useful one answers [...]
When to Outsource IT and When to Hire
The decision is usually framed as a cost comparison. That is the least useful way [...]
Co-Managed vs Fully Managed IT: Which Model Fits Your Team
Two different arrangements, sold as if they were tiers of the same thing. How to [...]
vCIO, Fractional CIO or Full-Time CIO: Which One You Actually Need
Three models, sold interchangeably, that suit very different organizations. How to work out which one [...]
What a vCIO Actually Does, Month by Month
A vCIO is easy to describe vaguely and hard to describe honestly. Here is what [...]