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Texas Compliance Automation
CIS compliance for Texas, from Austin to the Permian Basin.
Texas Data Privacy and Security Act (TDPSA), HIPAA, PCI-DSS, NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, SOC 2, and CMMC compliance automated for Texas enterprises in tech, energy, healthcare, and aerospace.
Quick Facts
Texas compliance at a glance, in one place.
The regulators, frameworks and deployment options that shape compliance in Texas.
- CISGuard Texas focus
- Austin, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio
- Primary sectors
- Tech, energy / oil & gas, healthcare, BFSI back-office, defense, aerospace
- State law
- Texas Data Privacy and Security Act (TDPSA), effective 1 July 2024
- Federal frameworks
- NIST 800-53, NIST 800-171, FedRAMP, CMMC Level 2, HIPAA, NERC CIP
- Data residency
- AWS us-east-2, us-west-2, AWS GovCloud, Azure Gov, on-premises Texas
- Air-gapped support
- Yes, including SCIF-compatible deployment for cleared workloads
- Sample customer profiles
- Austin SaaS scaleups, Houston energy supermajors, DFW BFSI back-office, SA defense contractors
- Onboarding languages
- English, Spanish (on request)
Regulatory Landscape
Compliance in Texas, United States.
Texas hosts one of the largest concentrations of US tech, energy, healthcare, and defense activity. The Austin tech corridor anchors Tesla, Oracle, Apple, Dell (Round Rock), AMD, IBM, Indeed, and a deep startup ecosystem; the Dallas-Fort Worth metro hosts the operations of American Airlines, AT&T HQ, ExxonMobil corporate, Lockheed Martin, McKesson, and the broader financial-services back-office estate; Houston is the global energy capital with ExxonMobil, Chevron Houston, Phillips 66, Schlumberger / SLB, and an extensive critical-infrastructure footprint; San Antonio hosts USAA HQ and the cybersecurity cluster around Joint Base San Antonio and the NSA Texas office. The compliance landscape mixes federal (NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, CMMC for defense contractors), sector (HIPAA for health systems, NERC CIP for energy / grid, SOX and GLBA for BFSI), and state-level (TDPSA effective July 2024, Texas Health and Safety Code privacy provisions). CISGuard runs entirely on US infrastructure with deployment options inside AWS Dallas (us-east-2 adjacent), AWS Oregon (us-west-2), AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, or on-premises.
Frameworks
Frameworks CISGuard maps for Texas.
Each scan generates per-framework reports showing satisfied / partial / not-met status.
| Framework | Scope | Authority |
|---|---|---|
| TDPSA | Texas Data Privacy and Security Act (effective 1 July 2024) | Texas Attorney General |
| HIPAA Security Rule → | Texas health systems and HIPAA-covered entities | US HHS / OCR |
| NIST 800-53 Rev. 5 → | Federal contractors and federal-adjacent | NIST |
| NIST 800-171 / CMMC L2 → | Defense Industrial Base contractors (San Antonio, DFW) | DoD CIO / Cyber AB |
| NERC CIP | Bulk Electric System operators in ERCOT | NERC |
| SOX → | Public Texas-listed entities (NYSE / Nasdaq) | PCAOB / SEC |
Data Residency
Sovereignty and residency, solved by architecture.
Texas energy critical-infrastructure operators face NERC CIP-aligned configuration evidence expectations for any bulk-electric-system asset; defense contractors face CMMC Level 2 (third-party assessment) and NIST 800-171 obligations; healthcare faces HIPAA + Texas Medical Records Privacy Act. CISGuard's on-premises and AWS GovCloud / Azure Government deployment options keep scan data inside US sovereign infrastructure, with FedRAMP-eligible alignment for the federal-adjacent workloads.
Deployment Options
Three ways to deploy in Texas.
Option 01
AWS US East (Ohio / Northern Virginia) or US West (Oregon)
Single-tenant CISGuard inside the customer's AWS US VPC. Standard deployment for Texas tech, energy back-office, and BFSI.
Option 02
AWS GovCloud / Azure Government
For federal contractors, defense industrial base, and any workload requiring FedRAMP-eligible sovereign cloud.
Option 03
Air-gapped (NERC CIP / CMMC / cleared systems)
For ERCOT bulk-electric-system operators, CMMC Level 3 contractors, and SCIF-compatible environments. Quarterly signed-media updates.
Frequently Asked
Texas questions, answered directly.
Does CISGuard satisfy the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act (TDPSA)?
Yes. TDPSA (effective 1 July 2024) requires controllers to implement and maintain reasonable administrative, technical, and physical security practices appropriate to the volume and nature of personal data. CISGuard's continuous CIS benchmark scanning, drift detection, and immutable audit trail provide the technical-controls evidence the Texas Attorney General will expect on an enforcement review.
Can CISGuard help Houston energy operators meet NERC CIP?
Yes. CISGuard maps CIS controls to NERC CIP-002 through CIP-014 cybersecurity standards, with continuous configuration evidence and drift detection on the BES Cyber Assets the standards govern. Air-gapped deployment supports the OT secure zones common in Houston supermajor and pipeline operations.
Does CISGuard support CMMC Level 2 for Texas DIB contractors?
Yes. CISGuard automates CIS scans mapped to NIST 800-171 Rev. 2 / Rev. 3 controls, with the configuration, change-management, and audit-trail evidence a C3PAO assessor walks through during the CMMC Level 2 certification engagement. San Antonio and DFW defense contractors can turn to CISGuard for both pre-assessment readiness and ongoing continuous compliance.
Ready to deploy in Texas?
Our compliance engineers have helped organizations across Texas achieve regulatory readiness through a seamless, fully managed deployment.