Aging IT infrastructure presents many challenges for an educational institution, not the least of which is ensuring compliance with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (or FERPA). Migration to the Cloud may seem like the obvious solution — it can help you cut costs and improve accessibility, two major problems presented by older hardware … Read more
With Microsoft Azure, you get always-on, up-to-date security that keeps your organization running—no need to worry about compromising business-critical application data and files across on-premise servers and the cloud. With Microsoft Azure, you’ll be able to: Guard your business or government agency against external threats and breaches using built-in security features across on-premise and cloud deployments. … Read more
With a vast amount of personal and private data available on networks throughout the world, it’s easy to understand just how necessary and important securing PII (personally identifiable information) is today. Let’s look at student records and the FERPA-compliant world of higher education, for example. A student’s entire education file, filled with academic performance data and … Read more
In light of the recent news of the data breach at Anthem Blue Cross/Blue Shield, risk assessment is our theme today. We welcome this guest post from our partner, KirkpatrickPrice…. Performing a Risk Assessment is a critical component of any Information Security Program. It’s mandated by several frameworks (SSAE 16, SOC 2, PCI DSS, … Read more
Guaranteeing hosting compliance. It’s pretty much something that AIS Network has always done, and it’s a clear service benefit. Our compliance with multiple security and regulatory standards such as HIPAA/HITECH, FISMA, FERPA, PCI DSS, GLBA, SOX and others repeatedly saves our clients time and money and helps them to avoid costly litigation over compliance errors. Up until … Read more
By Jay Atkinson AIS Network CEO We exhibited at the 2014 ACCS Annual Conference (Association of Collegiate Computing Services of Virginia) in Charlottesville last week and it was one of our favorite shows to date. The ACCS Conference volunteers did a tremendous job. They really take pride in the conference, make the vendors feel appreciated, and fed everybody well! Everyone we met … Read more