Paul Wittner is an independent physical security consultant based in Woodland, California, with 46 years in the field. He holds a California C-10 electrical contractor's license and California BSIS alarm licenses held continuously since 1982. He works with hospitals, water utilities, government agencies, correctional facilities, and industrial sites across Northern California.
Wittner Security Consultants is his independent consulting practice. It staffs no guards, sells no hardware, and provides no monitoring. The only thing it sells is judgment.
Paul has spent his entire career inside the physical security trade rather than adjacent to it. That work has covered CCTV and video surveillance, access control, mobile surveillance platforms, video monitoring, clinical low voltage systems, and network and communications infrastructure.
That history matters for one specific reason. A consultant who has never installed a system can tell you what good looks like in theory. A consultant who has spent decades installing, testing, and repairing them knows what will actually survive contact with your building, your budget, your electrical constraints, and the people who have to use it every day. Paul writes recommendations that get built, because he has spent a career building them.
Most security consultants hold no license at all, because pure advisory work in California does not require one. Paul's licenses come from having operated on the contracting side of this trade for four decades. They are listed here in full, with their numbers, because a credential you cannot verify is not a credential.
Over 46 years Paul has worked with organizations where a security failure carries real operational, public safety, or continuity consequences:
These are environments where the standard is not "did we install cameras." It is whether the whole system holds up when something goes wrong.
Paul also operates Western Security Systems, a licensed alarm and low voltage company. We tell you that here rather than leave it for you to discover, because independence you have to take on faith is not worth much. Wittner Security Consultants does not bid, install, or profit from any work it recommends. You own the specifications and can competitively bid them to any installer you choose.
Being clear about the boundaries is part of being useful:
Yes. Wittner Security Consultants is a single-principal practice. Paul performs the site walk, writes the findings, and presents the recommendations himself. You are not handed to a junior associate after the proposal is signed.
A California C-10 Electrical Contractor's License (#538251), and California BSIS alarm licenses: Alarm Company Operator ACO-5168 and Qualified Manager ACQ-1403, both held since 1982, plus ACO-7987 issued in 2019. Every number on this page is verifiable with the issuing agency.
No. WSC is advisory only. It does not bid, install, or profit from the work it recommends. Paul also operates Western Security Systems, a licensed alarm and low voltage company, and we say so openly rather than let you find it later. Read exactly how that line is drawn.
Northern California. The practice is headquartered in Woodland, about twenty minutes from Sacramento, and works on site across the Sacramento region, the Bay Area, the Central Valley, and the North State.
No. This is physical security: the building, the perimeter, the cameras, the doors, the locks, the lighting, the procedures, and the people. If your problem is network or data security, Paul is not the right consultant and will tell you so.
Every inquiry reaches Paul himself. Tell him what you are protecting and he will tell you honestly whether he is the right person for it.