Service Area
IT, Cybersecurity and Automation in the Santa Ynez Valley
Solvang, Buellton, Los Olivos and Santa Ynez run on hospitality, wine and tourism, with vineyard and production operations behind them. That combination creates a technology problem most valley businesses are carrying without realising it: you take card payments from the public, you run guest wifi, and your staff turns over with the season.
What We See in the Valley
Card Payments on Networks That Were Never Segmented
A tasting room POS, an office PC, the guest wifi and a back-of-house camera system frequently share one flat network. If your payment environment is not separated from everything else, your PCI scope is the whole building, and so is your exposure.
Guest Wifi as an Open Door
Public wifi is a hospitality requirement, not an option. The question is whether a guest device can see your POS, your file share or your reservation system. Usually nobody has checked.
Seasonal Staff Who Never Get Offboarded
Harvest and high season bring people in fast. Accounts get created quickly and removed slowly, or not at all. Active credentials for people who left two seasons ago are one of the most common findings in a small business assessment.
Systems That Multiplied Without a Plan
Reservations, wine club, e-commerce, POS, accounting and email marketing, each excellent on its own, none of them talking to the others. Somebody re-keys between them every week.
What We Do About It
Network Segmentation and Payment Scope Reduction
Separate the payment environment, the staff network, the operational systems and guest wifi. Reducing what sits inside your card data environment reduces both risk and the size of the questionnaire you have to answer.
Hosted SIEM Sized for a Small Operation
Log collection from your firewall, servers, endpoints and Microsoft 365, hosted and tuned by us so somebody is actually reading it. Implementation starts at $3,500 for up to five log sources, with hosting from $249 a month.
Identity and Offboarding Automation
Onboarding and offboarding that runs as a workflow rather than a memory exercise: accounts, licences, group membership and access revoked on the day someone leaves, with a record that it happened.
Automation Across the Systems You Already Own
Reservations into CRM, club renewals, inventory thresholds, review monitoring across platforms, and the weekly reporting somebody currently rebuilds by hand.
AI Workspace Setup for Wineries, Hospitality and Small Offices
Wineries, tasting rooms, hospitality businesses and small offices in Solvang, Buellton and Santa Ynez get AI set up for guest emails, event and club copy, and branded materials, with access settings that keep guest and payment data out of it. See AI Workspace Setup.
Common Questions
Do We Need to Be PCI Compliant?
If you accept card payments, your merchant agreement obliges you to. Scope and effort depend heavily on how your payment systems are set up, which is exactly what segmentation changes. We are not a QSA and do not issue attestations; we reduce scope and prepare the evidence.
We Only Have a Dozen Staff. Is This Overkill?
Segmentation and offboarding are not scale-dependent. A twelve-person tasting room taking card payments has the same obligation as a large one, and usually less protection.
Are You Local?
Based in Orcutt, about forty minutes from Solvang. On site when it helps, remote when it does not.
Can You Set Up AI Tools Like Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or Copilot for Our Office?
Yes. AI Workspace Setup covers platform selection, secure configuration, project workspaces, branded templates and hands-on training for offices of one to twenty people. Discovery starts at $350. See AI Workspace Setup.