Small Healthcare Practices
Physician offices, dental practices, behavioral health providers, therapy practices, specialty clinics, and other organizations that handle protected health information.
Indiana Security & Compliance Consulting
Cybersecurity and HIPAA consulting for Indiana healthcare organizations.
Based in Indianapolis and serving organizations throughout Indiana, Dingledy IT Consulting Services helps small healthcare practices identify cybersecurity risks, strengthen HIPAA-aligned safeguards, improve Microsoft 365 security, prepare for incidents, and build a practical technology-security program.
Experienced IT leadership without immediately hiring a full internal IT department.
Get practical guidance built around your organization, budget, technology, and risk.
Identify cybersecurity and operational risks.
Prioritize realistic improvements based on risk and budget.
Strengthen policies, documentation, and incident preparedness.
Add optional ongoing IT and security support.
Who We Help
Security guidance sized for small healthcare organizations and businesses.
The focus is on organizations that handle sensitive information but may not have a dedicated security officer, CIO, or internal IT department.
Community Healthcare Organizations
Small clinics, nonprofits, community health programs, and growing healthcare organizations that need stronger technology leadership and security planning.
Healthcare Vendors and Business Associates
Organizations that support healthcare clients and need to better understand their cybersecurity, HIPAA, vendor, and data-protection responsibilities.
Small Businesses Without Internal IT
Businesses in other industries that need practical cybersecurity guidance, vendor oversight, technology planning, or optional managed support.
Security & Compliance Services
Build a stronger security foundation one practical step at a time.
Services may be provided as focused projects, ongoing advisory support, or as part of a broader managed IT relationship.
Cybersecurity Readiness Review
Review your technology environment, current protections, vendors, policies, access controls, backup practices, and security gaps to identify the highest-priority risks.
HIPAA Security Support
Practical assistance aligning IT practices, safeguards, documentation, and security planning with HIPAA Security Rule expectations.
Security Policies and Procedures
Develop and improve policies covering access, passwords, remote work, mobile devices, backups, incident response, acceptable use, and other areas.
Microsoft 365 Security
Review licensing, multifactor authentication, administrative access, email protection, conditional access, sharing, and related settings.
Incident Response Planning
Create practical response plans, roles, escalation steps, communication procedures, vendor contacts, and recovery priorities before an incident occurs.
Vendor and Technology Review
Evaluate IT vendors, managed service providers, cloud systems, contracts, security tools, backup services, and technology proposals.
Backup and Recovery Planning
Review backup coverage, recovery expectations, off-site protection, testing practices, continuity needs, and recovery responsibilities.
IT Leadership and Planning
Fractional technology leadership for budgeting, roadmaps, vendor management, cybersecurity, infrastructure planning, and executive decisions.
Security Awareness Guidance
Support employee security awareness, phishing prevention, safe data handling, remote-work practices, and continuing training expectations.
Our Approach
Clear priorities instead of a report that sits on a shelf.
The goal is to identify what matters most, explain it in plain language, and build an improvement plan your organization can realistically follow.
Understand
Learn how your organization operates, what systems you depend on, what information you protect, and where your biggest concerns are.
Assess
Review technology, vendors, policies, access, backups, security controls, and operational risks.
Prioritize
Separate urgent risks from longer-term improvements and develop a practical, budget-aware roadmap.
Improve
Support implementation, documentation, vendor coordination, staff communication, and ongoing security improvement.
Common Starting Points
You do not need to fix everything at once.
Many organizations begin with a focused review of the safeguards most likely to reduce risk quickly and provide a stronger foundation.
Multifactor authentication:
Protect email, remote access, administrative accounts,
and cloud services.
Endpoint protection:
Improve antivirus, EDR, patching,
device management, and workstation security.
Backups:
Confirm critical systems are protected,
recoverable, tested, and appropriately isolated.
Email security:
Reduce phishing, account compromise,
impersonation, and malicious-attachment risks.
Access management:
Improve onboarding, termination,
inactive-account management, and privileged access.
Incident readiness:
Know who to call, what to preserve,
how to contain an incident, and how to continue operations.
A practical first engagement
A typical starting engagement may include a review of your current technology environment, key vendors, security controls, policies, backup approach, Microsoft 365 configuration, and operational risks.
You receive a prioritized roadmap that distinguishes immediate risks, near-term improvements, and longer-term planning needs.
Discuss a Readiness Review
Optional Managed Support
Add ongoing IT and security support when you need more than a consulting project.
Some organizations need guidance and a roadmap. Others need someone to help carry out the plan, manage vendors, monitor technology, support users, and provide continuing security oversight.
Managed and MSP-style services can be added based on the size, needs, and existing resources of the organization.
Ask About Ongoing Support
IT leadership and planning
Vendor coordination and oversight
Microsoft 365 administration
Endpoint and patch management
Security policy maintenance
Help desk and user-support options
Ongoing cybersecurity improvement
About Matt Dingledy
Experienced IT leadership with a practical small-business mindset.
Dingledy IT Consulting Services is led by Matt Dingledy, an IT professional with more than 25 years of experience helping organizations make practical technology decisions.
Matt started Dingledy Consulting LLC in 2011 and has more than 15 years of healthcare IT leadership experience. He has managed and supported technology for organizations across nearly every business vertical.
Education and leadership background
Matt holds a bachelor's degree from Indiana University and a master's degree in Strategic Leadership from the University of Indianapolis.
His approach combines hands-on IT experience, healthcare operations, cybersecurity, compliance awareness, business leadership, vendor management, and long-term strategic planning.
25+ Years in IT
15+ Years in Healthcare IT Leadership
Dingledy Consulting LLC Since 2011
Indiana University
M.A. Strategic Leadership
Cybersecurity
HIPAA Alignment
IT Strategy
Common Questions
Questions about cybersecurity and HIPAA consulting.
Common questions from small healthcare organizations and businesses considering a security engagement.
What does a cybersecurity readiness review include?
A review may cover accounts, Microsoft 365, endpoints, email protection, backups, remote access, vendors, policies, incident preparedness, and other safeguards.
Can you guarantee HIPAA compliance?
No consultant or technology product can guarantee compliance. The service helps organizations identify risk, improve safeguards, strengthen documentation, and better align practices with HIPAA expectations.
Do you provide ongoing IT support?
Yes. Organizations may begin with a focused consulting engagement and add ongoing IT leadership, Microsoft 365 administration, endpoint management, vendor coordination, or MSP-style support.
Do you work only with healthcare organizations?
Healthcare is the primary specialty, but services are also available to small businesses that need cybersecurity guidance, technology leadership, vendor oversight, or ongoing support.
Start with a practical conversation about your risks and priorities.
Whether you need a cybersecurity review, HIPAA-aligned IT guidance, policy development, incident planning, vendor oversight, or optional ongoing support, the first step is understanding your current environment.
Contact Dingledy IT Consulting Services
Tell me about your organization and what you need help protecting or improving.
Email:
matt@dingledy.com
Based in Indianapolis and serving small healthcare
organizations and businesses throughout Indiana
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Dingledy IT Consulting Services provides technology,
cybersecurity, and compliance support. Services do not
constitute legal advice and do not guarantee regulatory compliance.