Wittner Security Consultants concentrates on the Northern California sectors where a security failure is never just an inconvenience: water and wastewater utilities, healthcare, government, industrial and manufacturing, food processing and agriculture, and corrections.
Each of these environments has a distinct security profile, and 46 years in the field is what lets an assessment start from how your world actually works rather than a generic checklist.
The mechanics of physical security are consistent, but the priorities are not. What matters most in one environment barely registers in another:
An assessment that ignores those differences produces generic findings. One built on sector experience starts where your real risk is.
Across all six sectors the model is the same: no guards staffed, no hardware sold, and no work that gets recommended bid or installed by us. In regulated and public environments especially, that separation is not a nicety, it is the point. Read why.
These are the sectors where Paul's 46 years run deepest and where a security failure carries the highest consequence, but the underlying work, independent assessment and vendor-neutral design, applies to most commercial and institutional facilities. If your sector is not listed, call and describe it. If it is not a fit, you will be told plainly.
Each of these environments has a security profile the others do not. A hospital emergency department, an unstaffed water pump station, and a detention control room are three different problems, and advice that ignores those differences tends to be generic and wrong. Sector experience means the assessment starts from how your environment actually operates, not from a checklist.
We handle the physical security portion of them and frame the rest as context. Requirements like AWIA for water, AB 2975 and workplace violence rules for healthcare, and food defense for processors are your obligations, usually broader than physical security, and their compliance determinations rest with you and your counsel. We provide the independent physical security piece and do not certify or guarantee compliance with any regulation.
Describe the site and what prompted the call. Paul will tell you what the work involves in your specific environment, and whether he is the right person for it.