A country club is several businesses on one property: a membership office, a restaurant and bar, a pro shop, an events operation, a maintenance team and often a pool and fitness centre, sharing one network across clubhouse, cart barn and course. The systems are specialised, the staff are seasonal, the members expect everything to work, and the data, card numbers on file, member records, payroll, is exactly what criminals look for. We provide managed IT services and cybersecurity for private clubs and golf courses across the Twin Cities, priced per device at a flat monthly rate with no long-term contract.
Every business loses money when its systems go down. A club loses a Saturday tee sheet, a wedding’s point of sale, or the member statements that fund the month. Every business handles sensitive data. A club holds members’ personal details and cards on file, under PCI obligations for every register and Minnesota’s breach law for the rest.
The work is also spread across the property and the calendar. Buildings hundreds of yards apart, Wi-Fi expected on the patio and the range, staff who change every season, tournaments and events that put a hundred guests on the network at once, and a board that asks about security once a year. Support built for a quiet office does not fit a club in June.
Help desk that knows your club. One dedicated technician who learns your club management system, your point of sale, your tee sheet and your people, backed by a team so nobody waits on a Saturday morning. Remote support resolves most issues in minutes; on-site visits when hardware needs hands.
A network that covers the property. Firewall, switches and wireless designed for clubhouse, pro shop, cart barn, pool and patio, with member, guest, event and staff Wi-Fi kept apart from the registers and the office. See our network support.
Point of sale and payments. Registers, kitchen printers and card terminals on their own protected network, so the PCI questionnaire stays short.
Seasonal staff done properly. Accounts created and removed on schedule, shared logins retired, and a fast way to reset the password of a seventeen-year-old cart attendant.
Backups and continuity. Anything on a server backed up off site and verified, Microsoft 365 backed up daily, and a plan for running the tee sheet and the registers if the office loses power or internet. See our cloud backup services.
Clubs are targeted because they take card payments in several places, pay a lot of vendors and run on cloud logins shared by staff who come and go. Business email compromise aimed at the controller, account takeover of the club management platform or email, and ransomware timed for the season are the attacks we see most. Our managed cybersecurity services layer the defences: Huntress managed detection and response on every computer and server, SentinelOne antivirus beside it, Microsoft 365 accounts watched for suspicious sign-ins and forwarding rules, email filtering in front of every mailbox, and security awareness training for the office and front-of-house staff who handle payments.
Two free checks show where a club stands today: the cyber insurance readiness check and the email spoofing check.
Members expect Wi-Fi that works from the grill room to the practice green, and a wedding brings a hundred phones and a DJ’s laptop. We design wireless that covers the property and keeps every group separate: members and guests never see the office, the registers or the building systems, and an event can be given its own network for the day and removed the next morning.
A club’s board asks about cyber risk once a year and wants a plain answer. We provide it: what is protected, what is not, what it would cost, and the evidence behind it, in language a finance committee can act on. Clubs that need a named security lead for insurance or a lender can add our vCISO service.
We price by device, not by member or employee, so a club with twenty computers, a server, registers and a firewall pays for the equipment it actually has, at a flat monthly rate with no long-term contract. See a ballpark in about a minute on our managed services pricing calculator; every rate is published on our pricing page.
We support private country clubs, golf clubs, public courses and athletic clubs across Minneapolis, St. Paul and the surrounding suburbs, with remote support for staff anywhere on the property. OAC Technology has supported Twin Cities businesses since 2000 and is audited every year under SOC 2.
Yes, along with the point-of-sale, tee sheet, payroll and accounting systems that connect to them. The vendor supports the software; we support everything it runs on and the people who use it.
Yes. Outdoor access points and a wireless design that covers the property, with members, guests, events and staff kept on separate networks.
Accounts are created and removed on schedule, shared logins are retired, and password resets take minutes, so a new cart attendant is working the day they start and gone from every system the day they leave.
Registers and card terminals sit on their own protected network and card numbers stay inside the payment processor’s system, which keeps the PCI questionnaire short. We help answer it.
A club that cannot check in players is an office down, and it goes to the front of the line. Most tee sheet and point-of-sale problems are fixed remotely in minutes.
If you are evaluating IT support for your club, or your current provider has never walked the property, call 952-548-5558 or contact us for a free consultation. We will review your current setup, tell you plainly what we would change, and give you a flat monthly price.
