--- title: Standard I.T. Security | Managed I.T., Infrastructure and Consulting description: Managed I.T., cloud infrastructure, security and compliance for small and mid-size businesses across the United States. We design it, build it and run it. image: https://standarditsecurity.com/hubfs/sits-og-image.png --- Existing clients [Payment Portal](https://standarditsecurity.benjipays.com/login_required) *·* [Self Service Portal](https://standarditsecurity.halopsa.com/portal/) [**SITS**STANDARD I.T. SECURITY](https://standarditsecurity.com/?hsLang=en) [Consulting](https://standarditsecurity.com/#services) [AIEOS](https://standarditsecurity.com/#aieos) [Managed I.T.](https://standarditsecurity.com/#managed) [Contact](https://standarditsecurity.com/contact-us?hsLang=en) [Book a consultation](https://standarditsecurity.com/contact-us#book) Working across the U.S. · Simple. Secure. Practical. # Most firms will advise you on AI. Fewer can build the infrastructure. *We also keep it running.* SITS is a business and technology consultancy and a managed I.T. provider. Both, on purpose. We design how your business should work, build and secure the systems that support it, and run them afterwards. Nothing gets handed over and abandoned, because we are still the ones answering the phone. [Book a consultation](https://standarditsecurity.com/contact-us#book) [What is AIEOS?](https://standarditsecurity.com#aieos) #### Where most projects break - 1A consultant designs something **the team can't run** after they leave. - 2An AI pilot works once, then **quietly stops being used**. - 3Nobody owns it at 2am when a **connector silently fails**. **45+ yrs**Combined technology leadership across two principals **10+**Industries served, nationwide and remote **Audit-ready**PCI DSS and SOC 2 run as separate programs, not one checklist **Azure**Cloud architecture, consolidation and migration Two ways businesses work with us ## Hire us for either. The advantage is that it’s the same team. Some businesses call because their I.T. needs to stop being a problem. Others call with a business problem that happens to need technology. Running both practices is deliberate: it’s why we won’t design something nobody can support on a Tuesday morning, and why a project doesn’t end with a handover and a goodbye. Managed I.T. ### Our I.T. needs to just work Endpoints, network, licensing, backup, security and a help desk your team can actually reach. Steady, monitored, supported. We do this for restaurants, law firms, construction, veterinary, manufacturing and professional services across the country. [See what’s included](https://standarditsecurity.com#managed) Consulting & AIEOS ### We have a problem worth solving The same work gets done twice, leadership runs on a spreadsheet somebody rebuilds every month, or an AI pilot impressed everyone and then quietly stopped running. We assess it properly and tell you the truth about what will fix it. [How AIEOS works](https://standarditsecurity.com#aieos) Who you get ## Two principals. Both sides of the problem. Most transformation work dies in the gap between the people who understand the business and the people who understand the infrastructure. We don't have that gap. There are two of us, and we've each spent two decades on opposite sides of it. Business & operations ![Angela Ball, Principal Consultant](https://standarditsecurity.com/hubfs/Untitled%20design-3.png) ### Angela Ball, PMP Principal Consultant · Strategic Operations & Transformation Twenty years leading transformation across Fortune 100, private-equity backed and founder-led healthcare technology companies. Builds the operating model, the governance and the reporting leaders actually trust. Operating model designPMO & portfolio governance Operational data & reportingProcess standardization Capacity & workforce planningAI product strategy PMP · Lean Six Sigma Green Belt · Pragmatic Marketing PMC-II Infrastructure & security ![Brandt Ball, Founder & Principal](https://standarditsecurity.com/hubfs/Untitled%20design-2.png) ### Brandt Ball Founder & Principal · Infrastructure, Security & Compliance Twenty-five years across infrastructure, cloud and security. Consolidates data centers, eliminates technical debt, builds controls that pass an audit, and leads the teams that build the platforms AI actually runs on. Azure & cloud architecturePCI DSS complianceSOC 2 readiness Data center consolidationTechnical debt reduction Centralized infrastructureAI platform infrastructure Physical security, camera & badging Azure architecture · PCI DSS · SOC 2 · 25 years in the field What we're hired for ## What we’re usually called about **Operating model & process** The handoffs are unclear, the same work gets done twice, and nobody can say who owns what. We redesign how the work flows before touching a tool. **Operational data & reporting** Leadership decisions run on spreadsheets somebody rebuilds every month. We replace that with reporting connected to the systems work already happens in. **Practical AI & automation** One job, scoped properly, with controls and acceptance checks. If a plain automation would do it, we'll say so and build that instead. **Infrastructure & cloud** Aging on-premise footprint, accumulated technical debt, cost that keeps climbing. Consolidation and Azure migration with a defensible plan behind it. **PCI DSS compliance** If you take card payments this isn’t optional. Your acquirer enforces it, and your scope depends on how you process. We reduce the scope first, then prove it. **SOC 2 readiness** Voluntary until an enterprise customer makes it the condition of the deal. Control design, evidence collection and audit preparation, automated so it stops eating your team for months. **M&A technology integration** Diligence before the deal, and the messy part afterwards: combining systems, identities, data and teams into one operating company. We've both done it. Why this matters ## AI projects rarely fail at the demo. They fail at the handoff. The pilot impresses everyone. Then the person who built it leaves, a credential expires, a vendor changes a model, and six months later nobody can say whether it still runs. The consultancy #### Designs it, then leaves Strong on design and strategy. But when the connector breaks or the model changes, the relationship has already ended and the knowledge left with it. The I.T. provider #### Keeps the lights on Reliable on devices, network and support. But without the operating and process experience, they can't design the workflow the business actually needs. SITS #### Designs, builds and operates We wrote the requirements, built the infrastructure underneath, and already manage your licensing, endpoints and monitoring. Operating it isn't a new relationship. It's the same one. Our AI practice AIEOS AI Enterprise Operations Strategy Most AI programs start with a product and go looking for a problem to justify it. AIEOS runs the other way. We start with how your business actually operates: the jobs, the handoffs, the records people trust. Only then do we decide what AI should do about it, what it is permitted to touch, and who owns it once it’s running. *AI***Chosen last** The capability is the final decision, not the first. Sometimes the answer is an agent. Often it’s a fixed automation, or fixing the process underneath. *E***Enterprise** Your systems, your records, your identity and permissions. Not a sandbox, not a demo tenant. Real access is the hard part, and it’s where we start. *O***Operations** The work itself. Which jobs get done twice, which handoffs break, which decisions wait on a spreadsheet somebody rebuilds every month. *S***Strategy** A sequenced plan with a cost model, a named owner and an exit. Not a pilot that impresses a room and then quietly stops running. **AIEOS is the goal, not a project.** It is where the business is trying to get to. Reaching it runs through six steps, and we walk them with you in the same order every time. ### How we decide Three rules we apply to every engagement. They are the reason our recommendation sometimes costs you less than you came in expecting. - **The job gets named before the tool.** An audience, a source, a task and an owner. Anything vaguer than that cannot be tested, so it does not get built. - **The simplest thing that works, wins.** Sometimes that is an agent. Often it is a fixed automation, or fixing the process underneath. We will tell you which one you actually need. - **We are still here after launch.** Something nobody in your building can operate is not finished, whatever the demo showed. The path to AIEOS ## Six steps from a business problem to something that runs We don’t start with a platform. We start with one job that quietly eats your week: the kind that takes meetings to coordinate, discussion to settle and a lot of manual effort to finish. We make that job work, measurably, before we scale anything. *01***Assess** The problem, the current process and the tools already in place. *02***Design** The workflow, the controls and who approves what. *03***Connect** Systems, data and identity, with permissions enforced. *04***Build** Configure what exists. Build only the missing parts. *05***Prove** Test against acceptance checks before anyone depends on it. *06***Operate** Monitor the work, not just the server. Fix it when it drifts. Managed I.T. ## The I.T. that has to work before anything else does. This is not a line we added to look bigger. It is the business we have run for years, and it is the reason we can say we operate what we build. A consultancy that has never carried a pager will design you something nobody can support on a Tuesday morning. **Licensing & user access** Microsoft licensing, provisioning and offboarding, so people get what they need on day one and lose it on their last. **Devices, procurement & endpoint security** Specifying and sourcing the hardware, then deployment, patching, health and security visibility across every device in the business. **Network & infrastructure** Secure paths between users, systems and data. Servers, cloud, databases, backup and disaster recovery, designed to be recovered rather than just backed up. **Monitoring & alerting** Failures, capacity, connections, usage and cost. We would rather call you than have you call us. **Help desk & support** Incidents, access requests, approved changes and escalation, through the self-service portal your team already uses. **Physical security** Cameras, access control and badging. The part most I.T. providers hand to a third party and stop answering for. #### Already a client? Open a ticket, check its status or settle an invoice. Both portals are always one click from the top of every page. [Self Service Portal](https://standarditsecurity.halopsa.com/portal/) [Payment Portal](https://standarditsecurity.benjipays.com/login_required) In their words ## What it is actually like to work with us “ > I’ve never worked with an I.T. team that connects with each person so individually. Brandt and his team are patient, calm under pressure, and recommend customized long-term solutions designed to solve the problem and keep our systems and data safe. I could not ask for a better partner for our technology needs! **Robin Davis**Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Metre, LLC “ > We appreciate Brandt and his team. We trust them to know what we don’t know! They put in the extra time to fix our issues and help us make critical decisions about I.T. solutions to prevent future problems. They work hard to make a connection with us as a customer so that we can feel comfortable calling them with our I.T. questions and needs. **Elizabeth Moss**Founder & Chief Care Officer, Caregiver Source, Inc. Who we work with ## A selection of the businesses we work with Restaurants and hospitality, legal, construction, veterinary, manufacturers’ representatives, professional services, document management, recreation and wellness. Across the country, and across more industries than fit on one wall. ![Adagio logo](https://standarditsecurity.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported%20sitepage%20images/396eb3_fcf0114f7e8e4350a001c9a825574818~mv2.png?width=74&height=74&name=396eb3_fcf0114f7e8e4350a001c9a825574818~mv2.png) **Adagio**Wellness & spa ![Berry Hill logo](https://standarditsecurity.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported%20sitepage%20images/396eb3_66a46b0eca5b477b93bc80ce181f2d5f~mv2.png?width=74&height=74&name=396eb3_66a46b0eca5b477b93bc80ce181f2d5f~mv2.png) **Berry Hill**Veterinary ![Blues Boogie Bar logo](https://standarditsecurity.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported%20sitepage%20images/396eb3_8fc927f825c641eeab6f389b37370658~mv2.png?width=74&height=74&name=396eb3_8fc927f825c641eeab6f389b37370658~mv2.png) **Blues Boogie Bar**Restaurant & entertainment ![Bowie's logo](https://standarditsecurity.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported%20sitepage%20images/396eb3_909462bf2e3a44a985e5bc03065fc677~mv2.png?width=74&height=74&name=396eb3_909462bf2e3a44a985e5bc03065fc677~mv2.png) **Bowie’s**Restaurant & entertainment ![BrickTops logo](https://standarditsecurity.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported%20sitepage%20images/396eb3_d82daad7367b4c98af1eeb2a227751ec~mv2.png?width=74&height=74&name=396eb3_d82daad7367b4c98af1eeb2a227751ec~mv2.png) **BrickTops**Restaurant ![Chicago Chop House logo](https://standarditsecurity.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported%20sitepage%20images/396eb3_493c4330fa714fc0ac185b95c3628664~mv2.png?width=74&height=74&name=396eb3_493c4330fa714fc0ac185b95c3628664~mv2.png) **Chicago Chop House**Restaurant & entertainment ![CIP logo](https://standarditsecurity.com/hs-fs/hubfs/logo-cip.png?width=74&height=74&name=logo-cip.png) **CIP**Commercial & industrial painting ![Daida logo](https://standarditsecurity.com/hs-fs/hubfs/logo-daida.png?width=74&height=74&name=logo-daida.png) **Daida**Document management ![The Fleming-Wilmoth Law Firm logo](https://standarditsecurity.com/hs-fs/hubfs/logo-wilmoth.png?width=74&height=74&name=logo-wilmoth.png) **The Fleming-Wilmoth Law Firm**Legal ![Homegrown logo](https://standarditsecurity.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported%20sitepage%20images/396eb3_7146037c0b17488c86c8878454033ad3~mv2.png?width=74&height=74&name=396eb3_7146037c0b17488c86c8878454033ad3~mv2.png) **Homegrown**Restaurant ![Jax Boat Club logo](https://standarditsecurity.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported%20sitepage%20images/396eb3_51bc91fb1fcc446c99d24685736ad5c8~mv2.png?width=74&height=74&name=396eb3_51bc91fb1fcc446c99d24685736ad5c8~mv2.png) **Jax Boat Club**Recreation ![Metre logo](https://standarditsecurity.com/hs-fs/hubfs/logo-metre.png?width=74&height=74&name=logo-metre.png) **Metre**Professional services ![Petersen & Sons logo](https://standarditsecurity.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported%20sitepage%20images/396eb3_44948becb68f4afab4bf6ae5157ea1d5~mv2.png?width=74&height=74&name=396eb3_44948becb68f4afab4bf6ae5157ea1d5~mv2.png) **Petersen & Sons**Construction ![The Porch Company logo](https://standarditsecurity.com/hs-fs/hubfs/The%20Porch%20Company%20Small%20(3).png?width=74&height=74&name=The%20Porch%20Company%20Small%20(3).png) **The Porch Company**Construction ![Wiggs-Haun & Bohan logo](https://standarditsecurity.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported%20sitepage%20images/396eb3_a7799a53b86b4e6ebe3cd90b3af4d55d~mv2.png?width=74&height=74&name=396eb3_a7799a53b86b4e6ebe3cd90b3af4d55d~mv2.png) **Wiggs-Haun & Bohan**Manufacturer’s representatives ## Start with one job that isn’t working Not a platform evaluation. Not a twelve-month roadmap. One process that takes too much time and too many people, assessed properly, with an honest answer about whether AI is even the right tool for it. [Book a consultation](https://standarditsecurity.com/contact-us#book) [Call 833.333.SITS](tel:+18333337487) **SITS** STANDARD I.T. SECURITY Consulting, Infrastructure and Managed I.T. Design, Build and Operate. Simple. Secure. 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