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Hospitality & Tourism

Hotels, restaurants, resorts, and tourism operators β€” guest-grade Wi-Fi, PCI-compliant POS, 24/7 SLA helpdesk.

Comprehensive IT infrastructure and security for hotels, restaurants, and hospitality businesses handling guest data.

PCI DSSGDPR

Hotels, restaurants, resorts, and tourism operators across Metro Vancouver, Greater Toronto, South Florida, Orlando (theme-park-adjacent + hospitality belt), and LA.

$3.36MAvg. hospitality breach cost (IBM 2023)
99.95%POS uptime SLA across our hospitality client base
4 hrReplacement SLA for failed POS terminals during business hours
What you can count on

93% of tickets touched within 15 minutes. 100% of after-hours messages acknowledged the same business day. Every engagement staffed by a named senior engineer.

What we see in hospitality & tourism

Pain you're probably already feeling.

Hospitality breaches make the news because guests have nowhere to hide.

Marriott. Hyatt. MGM. Hospitality is a serial target because PII + payment data + transient device count are all high. Your guests' loyalty data is in the breach disclosure β€” and they switch brands. Standard segmentation, EDR, and email security mitigate the most common vectors.

Guest Wi-Fi is the most-exploited surface in your network.

Most hospitality Wi-Fi is one captive portal away from your POS network. Guests on the same VLAN as the back-office. Threat actors check in, plug in their kit, and pivot. Proper segmentation (guest VLAN, IoT VLAN, POS VLAN, back-office VLAN) is a one-week project that closes the most common pivot path.

POS uptime IS the business β€” and your POS vendor doesn't SLA you.

Toast, Lightspeed, Aloha, Micros β€” all great at POS but their support SLA is hours, not minutes. We sit between you and the vendor with named-engineer escalation, pre-staged terminal spares, and 4-hour replacement during business hours.

What we install on day one.

24/7 Network Monitoring

Continuous network performance and security monitoring

Included
Network & Infrastructure SecurityMonitoringNetwork Performance

Why this matters for hospitality

  • Network downtime and outages
  • Performance degradation issues
  • Security incident detection
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Wireless Network Security

Enterprise WiFi security and management

Included
Network & Infrastructure SecurityWiFi SecurityWireless Management

Why this matters for hospitality

  • Rogue access point detection
  • Wireless network intrusions
  • Guest network security
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Automated Patch Management

Comprehensive vulnerability and patch management

Included
Endpoint & Device SecurityPatch ManagementVulnerability Management

Why this matters for hospitality

  • Unpatched security vulnerabilities
  • Manual patching complexity
  • System downtime from patches
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Backup & Disaster Recovery

Comprehensive data protection and business continuity

Included
Business Continuity & BackupBackupDisaster Recovery

Why this matters for hospitality

  • Data loss from various causes
  • Long recovery times
  • Untested backup systems
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Compliance Management

Comprehensive regulatory compliance automation

Included
Compliance & Risk ManagementComplianceRegulatory

Why this matters for hospitality

  • Complex compliance requirements
  • Manual compliance processes
  • Audit preparation challenges
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Compliance, line by line

What each framework actually asks for β€” and what we do about it.

PCI DSS v4.0

What it requires

Network segmentation, encryption of cardholder data, MFA for admin access, quarterly vulnerability scans, annual pen test for Level 1 merchants.

How we help

Network segmented into guest / POS / back-office / IoT VLANs (drops PCI scope dramatically); encryption + MFA configured tenant-wide; quarterly ASV scans; annual penetration test.

Provincial / state guest-data laws

What it requires

Quebec Law 25, GDPR (for EU guests booking your North American properties), CCPA for California-resident guests β€” breach notification, DSAR workflow, retention limits.

How we help

Per-jurisdiction notification clocks; guest data inventory across PMS, loyalty, POS, Wi-Fi captive portal; DSAR workflow integrated with your PMS.

Cyber insurance for hospitality

What it requires

EDR, MFA, immutable backups, documented IR plan β€” same as everyone, but premiums are higher post-Marriott/MGM and underwriters scrutinize hospitality more.

How we help

All four installed by week 2; documented IR plan rehearsed quarterly; broker attestation packet ready for next renewal.

Additional compliance services

Secure Email Encryption

End-to-end email encryption and digital signatures

Details β†’

Collaboration Platform Security

Secure Microsoft Teams, Slack, and Zoom environments

Details β†’

Microsoft Azure Management

Comprehensive Azure security and management

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Free self-serve tools

Score your risk. Price your downtime. No call required.

Two short diagnostics built by our senior engineers. Answer a handful of questions, get a scored report with next steps β€” yours to keep either way.

Questions we always get

Before the call.

Straight answers so the health-check call can skip the basics.

Do you support our PMS / POS (Opera, Mews, Cloudbeds, Toast, Lightspeed, Micros, Aloha, NCR)?

Yes β€” all major hospitality platforms. We don't resell, but we manage the integration layer, network configuration, vendor coordination during outages, and a 4-hour replacement SLA on failed terminals during business hours.

How do you handle multi-property hotel groups?

Hub-and-spoke: central operations with per-property device + network inventory, per-property compliance dashboards, central PMS hosting where applicable, and a roll-up monthly scorecard for the corporate ops team. Standard for chains with 5-200 properties.

What's the right Wi-Fi setup for a hotel or resort?

Multi-SSID with VLAN isolation: guest Wi-Fi (open SSID, captive portal, isolated from back-office), staff Wi-Fi (RADIUS + MFA), POS network (wired preferred, isolated wireless if not), IoT (sensors, locks, HVAC, on its own VLAN with monitored egress). One enterprise Wi-Fi vendor across all properties for operations simplicity.

Can you handle the seasonal capacity swings?

Yes β€” peak-season runbook activates 30 days before your peak: extra capacity in the SOC, pre-staged terminal spares at hub properties, network capacity validated, IR playbook rehearsed, and named-engineer escalation 24/7 through peak.

Do you support restaurants and bars (multi-unit operators)?

Yes β€” multi-unit restaurant IT is one of our standard practices. POS, kitchen display systems, online ordering integration, music/AV, security cameras, payroll terminals β€” all on one contract with per-location reporting and chain-level visibility.

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