Who the whitepaper is for

The paper is written for public-sector, regulated, community, nonprofit, and small-to-medium organizations outside the United States that depend on Microsoft 365, Azure, Google Workspace, Google Cloud, commercial AI tools, or similar de facto default platforms.

What it covers

  • Why data residency, jurisdiction, administrative access, export readiness, and operational evidence need to be assessed together.
  • How AI changes the risk model through prompts, logs, connectors, retrieval indexes, model routing, and potential sensitive information leakage.
  • Why control can also be a cost strategy when licensing, storage, cloud consumption, and token usage are measured before migration.
  • How OpenDesk, open-source collaboration, and self-hosted Mistral private AI can support a practical alternative operating model.
  • How DCS structures delivery through Assess, Implement, and Manage services.