AIS Network Earns Top Honors as a Best Place to Work in Virginia, Ranks No. 50 Among Small Employers Summary: Virginia cybersecurity and IT provider AIS Network has ranked at No. 50 on this year’s small employer list of the 100 “Best Places to Work in Virginia” by Virginia Business Magazine. AISN’s inclusion in the … Read more
Summary: Del. John McGuire (R-56th District) introduced Henrico County small business owners Jay Atkinson and Laurie Head to the Virginia House of Delegates today. Speaking on the House floor, McGuire noted that their technology modernization business has provided a decade of continuous IT leadership to the Commonwealth of Virginia. Richmond, Va. — March 3, … Read more
Summary: AIS Network commends Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam for his recognition of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month throughout the commonwealth and his commitment to raise awareness about the importance of securing Virginia’s critical government infrastructure. AISN is a leading, SWaM-certified provider of advanced information security and other IT managed services to Virginia government agencies. Richmond, … Read more
Unfortunately, the recent AWS S3 outage did not help alleviate doubt that some people already have about the cloud. AWS apologized, of course, explaining that a team member had entered a bad command during the debugging of an S3 system. Safeguards were put in place to prevent “incorrect input from triggering a similar event in the … Read more
Preventing PHI Breaches: Five Tips to Ensure They Don’t Become Your Achilles Heel This article first ran as a featured guest post in Electronic Health Reporter on September 22, 2014. The theft of 4.5 million medical records by Chinese hackers recently, coupled with the news that as-yet unidentified hackers were able to penetrate the U.S. government’s … Read more
Sometimes hassling with your own servers no longer makes sense. Keeping your server room environment cool, secure and outage-free is challenging. The capital expenses, the constant purchasing, the 3 a.m. emergencies and the routine patching feels like insanity. Deploying, scaling and managing the physical environment weighs you down too. You’re tired of all the low-value … Read more
By Jay Atkinson AIS Network CEO If you’re a company in the health care industry, you have just 47 days to get your act together on planning for IT disaster recovery. That’s right. Beginning Sept. 23, the HIPAA/HITECH rules governing protected health information (PHI) secure data backup and recovery will be enforced, and some businesses … Read more
Reston, VA — January 10, 2013 — AIS Network, a leading provider of fully managed enterprise-class hosting, today announced that it has completed its semi-annual SOC 1 (Service Organization Control) Type II audit. This certification attestation verifies that AISN has the proper internal controls and processes in place to deliver high-quality services to its clients. … Read more
Summary: Cloud hosting and managed hosting services are in demand in central Virginia, according to AIS Network CEO Jay Atkinson. The hosting pioneer has announced its membership in the Richmond Technology Council and its participation in the upcoming 2012 COVITS, the state’s preeminent government technology forum. Richmond, VA — September 4, 2012 — Cloud … Read more
By Jay Atkinson AIS Network CEO Microsoft SQL Server 2012 is here now. How much do you know about it? If you’re using Microsoft SharePoint 2010 or Microsoft SharePoint 2010 for Internet Sites or if you manage big data, then it’s likely that you are familiar with SQL Server. This newest version of Microsoft’s premier … Read more
