Jun 18 2025

DISC WinerySecure™: Cybersecurity & Compliance Services for California Wineries

Category: cyber security,Information Security,Pen Test,Policies & Controls,Security Compliance,Security Risk Assessment,Security training,Security vulnerabilities,vCISO,Web Security — disc7 @ 10:04 am

Overview: DISC WinerySecure™ is a tailored cybersecurity and compliance service for small and mid-sized wineries. These businesses are increasingly reliant on digital systems (POS, ecommerce, wine clubs), yet often lack dedicated security staff. Our solution is cost-effective, easy to adopt, and customized to the wine industry.

Wineries may not seem like obvious cyber targets, but they hold valuable data—customer and employee details like social security numbers, payment info, and birthdates—that cybercriminals can exploit for identity theft and sell on the dark web. Even business financials are at risk.

Target Clients:

  • We care for the planet and your data
  • Wineries invest in luxury branding
  • Wineries considering mergers and acquisitions.
  • Wineries with 50–1000 employees
  • Using POS, wine club software, ecommerce, or logistics systems
  • Limited or no in-house IT/security expertise

🍷 Cyber & Compliance Protection for Wineries

Helping Napa & Sonoma Wineries Stay Secure, Compliant, and Trusted

🛡️ Why Wineries Are at Risk

Wineries today handle more sensitive data than ever—credit cards, wine club memberships, ecommerce sales, shipping details, and supplier records. Yet many rely on legacy systems, lack dedicated IT teams, and operate in a complex regulatory environment.

Cybercriminals know this.
Wineries have become easy, high-value targets.

✅ Our Services

We offer fractional vCISO and compliance consulting tailored for small and mid-sized wineries:

  • 🔒 Cybersecurity Risk Assessment – Discover hidden vulnerabilities in your systems, Wi-Fi, and employee habits.
  • 📜 CCPA/CPRA Privacy Compliance – Ensure you’re protecting your customers’ personal data the California way.
  • 🧪 Phishing & Ransomware Defense – Train your team to spot threats and test your defenses before attackers do.
  • 🧰 Security Maturity Roadmap – Practical, phased improvements aligned with your business goals and brand.
  • 🧾 Simple Risk Scorecard – A 10-page report you can share with investors, insurers, or partners.

🎯 Who This Is For

  • Family-run or boutique wineries with direct-to-consumer operations
  • Wineries investing in digital growth, but unsure how secure it is
  • Teams managing POS, ecommerce, club CRMs, M&A and vendor integrations

💡 Why It Matters

  • 🏷️ Protect your brand reputation—especially with affluent wine club customers
  • 💸 Avoid fines and lawsuits from privacy violations or breaches
  • 🛍️ Boost customer confidence—safety sells
  • 📉 Reduce downtime, ransomware risk, and compliance headaches

📞 Let’s Talk

Get a free 30-minute consultation or try our $49 Self-Assessment + 10-Page Risk Scorecard to see where you stand.

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Virtual CISO | Wine Industry Security & Compliance
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Service Bundles

1. Risk & Compliance Assessment (One-Time or Annual)

  • Winery-specific security and compliance checklist
  • Key focus: POS, ecommerce, backups, privacy laws (CCPA, CPRA, GDPR), NIST CSF, ISO 27001, SOX, PCI DSS exposure
  • Deliverable: 10-page Risk Scorecard + Executive Summary + Heat Map

2. Winery Security Essentials (Monthly)

  • Managed endpoint protection (EDR-lite)
  • Basic firewall and ISP hardening
  • 2FA setup for admin accounts
  • Phishing and email security implementation
  • POS and DTC site security guidance

3. Employee Awareness & Policy Pack

  • Annual virtual 30-minute training
  • Phishing simulations (2x/year)
  • Winery-specific security policies:
    • Acceptable Use
    • Access Control
    • Incident Response
  • Tracking of policy acceptance and training logs

4. vCISO-Lite Advisory (Quarterly)

  • Quarterly 1-hour consults with DISC vCISO
  • Audit readiness and compliance roadmap (CCPA, PCI, ISO)
  • Tech stack and vendor security guidance

Optional Add-Ons

  • Penetration test (web or cloud systems)
  • PCI-DSS SAQ support
  • Vendor security assessments
  • Business continuity/ransomware recovery plans

Pricing Tiers

TierDescriptionMonthlyAnnual
StarterEssentials + Training$499$5,500
GrowthStarter + vCISO-Lite$999$11,000
PremiumGrowth + Add-Ons (Customizable)$1,499+Custom

Benefits for Wineries:

  • Reduces risk of ransomware, fraud, and data loss
  • Supports audit, insurance, and investor requirements
  • Protects customer data and tasting room operations
  • “Secure Winery” badge to promote trust with guests
  • In addition to winery protection, DISC specializes in securing data during mergers and acquisitions.

Next Steps: Let us prepare a customized scorecard or walk you through a free 15-minute discovery call.

Contact: info@discinfosec.com | www.discinfosec.com

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Jun 23 2022

How Is Hospital Critical Infrastructure Protected?

Category: Access Control,hipaa,Policies & Controls,Security controls — DISC @ 3:01 pm
How Is Hospital Critical Infrastructure Protected?

Hospitals hold a lot of sensitive data. When they are hacked, patient information is exposed, putting patients at risk because the hackers can use stolen personal information in several identity theft schemes. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has been working hard to protect hospitals from cyberattacks, but the fact is that while they do the best they can, there will always be breaches and more work to be done. The government is trying everything to ensure that hospitals are protected and that patients are aware of any breaches as quickly as possible when they do occur.

Table of Contents

  1. Hospitals as an important part of the critical infrastructure
  2. Hospitals need special protection to keep patients safe.
  3. Some Of the Specific Things That Can Be Done to Protect Hospitals Against Cyberattacks
  4. There are various practices and systems in place to protect critical infrastructure and hospitals.
  5. Is there anything hospital patients can do to reduce their risk?
  6. Conclusion

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Mar 07 2019

How to choose the right cybersecurity framework

Category: Policies & Controls,Risk Assessment,Security Compliance,Security Risk Assessment — DISC @ 10:05 am

Does your organization need NIST, CSC, ISO, or FAIR frameworks? Here’s how to start making sense of security frameworks.

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Oct 27 2009

Clear Policies and Effective Controls

Category: Policies & Controls — DISC @ 2:19 pm

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Writing Information Security Policies

Policy defines law of an organization what is acceptable and less risky way of doing business. Having a law in-place is one thing (a good start for an organization) but how you enforce or change policies over time is a key to successful policy implementation.

To control your environment context is everything, what you want to allow as well as actions that you will take to safeguard your environment to enforce suitable policies. The policies will determine who can access your infrastructure under what circumstances and what conditions and especially what actions needed to be taken when users or devices are in non-compliance.

Over the passage of time you need to re-access policies to determine what new policies need to be added and which one need to be edited or discarded based on current business needs. Policy control should be transparent to user and balance need to be maintained between usability and security. During maintaining this balance policy is more of an art than science. If security control cost more than the benefit attain from business activity, at that point we might need to readdress, how much we want to control the environment which is acceptable to current business needs and does not thwart business activity.

Regularly reassessing policies, education users and enforce current policies to help limit your organization liability. Make sure your practice matches your policies; you may be creating a liability that you believe you have protected yourself against.

You got to try out your new policies to see how well they work in your environment. In this regard you might want to issue policy position statement to receive open feedback from user community before adding into to your company policy. By re-assessing policies on regular basis, and issuing policy statement before enforcing a policy, you can achieve better control over your environment by understanding your user’s requirements and business needs. Deming PDCA (Plan-Do-Check-Act) model apply to the process of building policy, you build this process to perfection over time.

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