Commercial security for Lompoc Valley businesses, farms, and light industrial yards

Built for how the Lompoc Valley actually works

A business here is rarely one tidy building. Agricultural operations spread across the valley floor with sheds, fuel, equipment, and an office a long way from the road. Light industrial yards near the airport have gates and open ground, and storefronts along H Street and Ocean Avenue have a front door, a back door, and a stockroom between them.

Wind and Lompoc Valley fog shape the equipment choices too. We mount to structure rather than fascia to limit wind shake, and we favor color night vision with a low-light sensor over raw infrared, because infrared reflects off fog droplets and washes the picture out. The guide to coastal fog and salt air explains why in more detail.

The walkthrough is where this gets specific. We map coverage, entry points, and gaps on your property, take photos, and then write the plan around what we actually saw.

Door access for staff, shifts, vendors, and gates

Keys do not tell you who came in, and they are hard to take back. Door access control gives each person a phone, card, fob, or PIN credential with its own schedule, so a day-shift employee, a night cleaner, and a delivery vendor each get only the doors and hours they need. When someone leaves, we revoke that one credential instantly and nothing needs to be rekeyed.

Every entry goes into an audit log, and door-held and forced-door alerts tell you when something is wrong. Video intercoms and gate control extend the same rules to the yard entrance. Our small business door access guide covers how to think through who needs what.

The controllers store credentials locally and keep enforcing them if the internet drops. They have battery backup and a mechanical override. Fail-safe and fail-secure behavior is set to life-safety code and coordinated with your fire and alarm systems, so each door's behavior in a power loss or emergency is a deliberate, code-based decision.

Cameras that identify people and plates at yards and entrances

A camera that shows a shape in the dark is not much use to anyone. We design security camera installation around identification first: about 80 pixels across a face to be recognizable by someone who knows them, and about 120 for an investigator. Gates and driveways get plate capture, and wide yards can use PTZ cameras, floodlights, and speakers as deterrence.

Recording stays on a recorder you own, on site, with no monthly fee to watch your footage. It keeps recording when the internet is down, and typical retention is several weeks of continuous recording, sized by the drive. Remote viewing is encrypted. Outbuildings and far gates that have no cable run can use solar and cellular or wireless links.

A business network the cameras cannot become a way into

Cameras, door controllers, and intercoms are computers on your network. If they share it with your accounting machine, a weakness in one is a path to the other. Segmentation separates them, and it is included in every install, not sold as an upsell.

The network security work also covers a firewall with intrusion detection and prevention, remote access that is hardened in place of open ports, and wireless with isolated guest access so customers and vendors never touch your internal systems. The guide to small business network segmentation walks through the reasoning in plain terms.

For technical offices and small companies

Jacob Keith has spent years supporting national security and critical infrastructure programs, including space launch and aerospace ground systems for government and commercial operators. That work means full lifecycle risk management, vulnerability management, and physical implementation: not a consultant who has never pulled cable. We bring that discipline to small offices and yards.

For technical companies, we can run a risk assessment against a recognized framework, with NIST as the default reference, and write it for people who do not do this for a living. We add vulnerability management, an incident response plan, and a tabletop exercise so your staff has rehearsed the first hour before it happens. Jacob holds CISSP, CompTIA CySA+, and CompTIA SecurityX (formerly CASP+).

One plan, one fixed price, one person accountable

Our Business and Commercial package brings cameras, door access, separate networks, a firewall, sensors, a response plan, and a staff briefing into one scope. We adjust it on the walkthrough, and you can start with only the part you need most.

The process has four steps: a ten-minute call, a free on-site walkthrough, a written plan with a fixed price, and then a clean install with an app walkthrough and a local number to call. The walkthrough is usually scheduled within a week, and you keep the written plan whether or not you hire us. You can read what to expect from the walkthrough before you call, and the service area page lists the rest of where we work.