Managed IT, AI Security & Cybersecurity Services in Austin, Texas

Armorstack operates as a service-area provider in Austin and dispatches engineers across Travis County, Williamson County, Hays County, and the broader Austin-Round Rock-Georgetown metro for scheduled and emergency on-site work, with target response of 4 hours during business hours and 8 hours overnight. Our 24/7 SOC monitoring and vCISO/vCIO engagements are delivered with no geographic gap and full Central Time alignment. Reach our Austin desk at 877-890-5508.

Austin is the densest concentration of AI and AI-augmented enterprise software development in Texas. Indeed, Bumble, Atlassian, Oracle, Dell, IBM, Tesla, Apple, Google, Meta, and a deep AI-startup ecosystem are all shipping AI features at velocity. Armorstack’s SENTRY portfolio detects shadow AI, monitors prompt-injection patterns, baselines model behavior, detects training-data exfiltration, assesses vendor AI-supply-chain risk, and integrates AI risk reporting under NIST AI RMF and the EU AI Act. A Shadow AI Discovery typically completes within 5-10 business days. Call 877-890-5508 to scope.

Yes. Our VERITY portfolio delivers SOC 2 Type II readiness, ISO 27001 implementation, ISO/IEC 42001 AI management system implementation, CAIQ / SIG / vendor-specific security questionnaire response programs, and customer-facing trust documentation. We integrate the controls into your engineering workflow rather than running them parallel to it — important for fast-moving Austin product teams whose deal cycles are gated on customer security review.

For an active incident with a service retainer in place, our incident response team is engaged within 30 minutes via SOC and on-site within 4-8 hours depending on time of day. We coordinate directly with the FBI Austin Resident Agency at the J.J. Pickle Federal Building, the Texas Attorney General (Austin HQ — TDPSA and breach-notification enforcement), and the Texas Department of Public Safety Cybercrime Unit. We file Texas Attorney General data-breach notifications within the 30-day deadline triggered when 250 or more Texans are affected.

Armorstack delivers CMMC Level 1 and Level 2 implementation and assessor coordination for Defense Industrial Base contractors across Central Texas — including the semiconductor supplier base around Samsung Austin Semiconductor, Applied Materials, NXP, Tokyo Electron, and the 3M Austin operations. ITAR, EAR, NIST 800-171, and NDAA Section 889 are core to that practice. Our VERITY portfolio includes a credentialed CMMC practice that has prepared clients for first-attempt Level 2 certification. Call 877-890-5508 to scope.

Yes. TDPSA became effective July 1, 2024 and is enforced exclusively by the Texas Attorney General — whose dedicated TDPSA enforcement team is based in Austin — with civil penalties up to $7,500 per violation after a 30-day cure period. We help Austin SaaS, AI, and consumer-tech firms map TDPSA controller and processor obligations, consumer rights workflows (access, deletion, correction, opt-out of sale and targeted advertising), data protection assessments, and the small-business carve-out. TDPSA layers on top of SOC 2, ISO 27001, and federal frameworks; our practice integrates it.

Managed IT engagements for 100-500 employee Austin firms typically run $9,000-$35,000 per month depending on scope. SaaS firms with heavy customer security questionnaire load and AI-specific obligations range higher because of additional compliance program work. vCISO and VERITY Compass retainers add $3,500-$12,000 per month. SOC monitoring is priced per asset. Most clients start with a fixed-fee assessment under $20,000. Many Austin firms begin with our 90-day no-contract assessment.

Yes. Our CITADEL portfolio integrates access control, video surveillance, fire alarm monitoring, and low-voltage infrastructure with cybersecurity monitoring across The Domain, downtown, East Austin, Round Rock, and Tesla / Samsung industrial sites. We work with NDAA Section 889-compliant equipment for federal-adjacent and defense-supplier engagements. Site surveys are scheduled within 5 business days. Call 877-890-5508 to schedule.

Yes. The EU AI Act creates risk-tiered obligations for AI systems offered to EU users — general-purpose AI, high-risk AI, and prohibited AI categories. We help Austin AI firms map their products against the Act’s risk classifications, build the technical and conformity-assessment documentation, integrate AI-specific obligations into existing SOC 2 / ISO 27001 / ISO 42001 programs, and prepare for downstream-deployer documentation requirements. The Act is the most consequential AI regulation for Austin firms with European customers and is layered onto NIST AI RMF.

Yes. The Tesla Gigafactory Texas supplier base — vehicle parts, battery cells, robotics components, manufacturing-equipment vendors, and the broader Austin EV / robotics cluster — operates under increasing automotive cybersecurity expectations: NHTSA guidance, ISO/SAE 21434, UN R155 / R156, and (where defense involvement exists) NIST 800-171 and CMMC 2.0. Our practice covers OT / IT convergence at scale-out manufacturing sites and integrates with broader Tier-1 supplier compliance programs.

We work with engagements subject to the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI), Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC), Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR — headquartered in Austin) for state-government-adjacent work, the Texas Attorney General (TDPSA / Identity Theft Enforcement and Protection Act enforcement, Austin HQ), and the Texas Department of Banking. Federal regulators relevant to Austin engagements include FBI Austin Resident Agency, CISA Region 6, SEC Fort Worth Regional Office, and FTC Western Region.

Schedule a 30-minute discovery call at armorstack.ai/contact/ or call 877-890-5508. The call is candid scoping — no pitch deck. If we agree there is a fit, the typical first engagement is a fixed-fee assessment with a defined deliverable in 4-6 weeks before any monthly retainer commitment. Many Austin firms start with our 90-day no-contract assessment.