Penetration Testing in Texas
HackersHub is an Amsterdam-headquartered offensive security firm running engagements for enterprises across Texas: the Silicon Hills technology and semiconductor cluster around Austin, the state capital; Houston's energy, pipeline and medical-centre economy; Dallas-Fort Worth's financial, defence and aerospace campuses; and the state agencies and cloud vendors governed by TX-RAMP and TAC 202. Penetration tests, red team operations, phishing simulations and managed security delivered manually by OSCP-, OSWE- and CREST-certified testers.
The Texas threat landscape
Texas carries one of the largest and most varied enterprise attack surfaces in the United States. The ERCOT grid is the only major US interconnection run largely within a single state, which makes its generation, transmission and market participants a standing target for state-aligned pre-positioning against operational technology. Houston concentrates the oil, gas, pipeline and petrochemical sector whose IT/OT boundary has been under TSA pipeline security directives since 2021, alongside the Texas Medical Center, the largest medical complex in the world, where ransomware against clinical systems carries patient-safety consequences. Dallas-Fort Worth hosts the Charles Schwab headquarters in Westlake, the JPMorgan Chase and Fidelity campuses, Comerica, and the Lockheed Martin Fort Worth and Raytheon McKinney defence sites, drawing business email compromise against treasury functions and APT campaigns against controlled unclassified information. Austin adds the semiconductor and SaaS cluster and the state-government target set, with a documented history of coordinated ransomware against Texas public bodies, including the August 2019 attack on 23 local governments and the May 2023 ransomware incident at the City of Dallas. The Texas regulatory regime now tracks this threat model closely: TX-RAMP and TAC 202 for state agencies and their cloud vendors, the TDPSA since July 2024, the 60-day resident and 30-day Attorney General breach-notification clock under Tex. Bus. & Com. Code 521.053, and the SB 2610 safe harbor enacted in 2025 for organisations that can evidence a written, tested cybersecurity program.
Need a penetration test in Texas?
Written scope, named OSCP-certified testers, report within a week of the last testing day.
Sectors we engage across Texas
Repeatable threat patterns by sector, same playbook adapted to the Texas regulatory and operational context.
Technology, semiconductor & SaaS (Austin)
Dell Technologies in Round Rock, Oracle, Tesla's Gigafactory Texas, Samsung Austin Semiconductor and the Taylor fab, AMD, Apple, NXP, and the SaaS ecosystem around them. Engineering-network and fab-adjacent assessments, cloud and identity pentests, red team operations against IP-collection tradecraft. SOC 2, PCI DSS 4.0, TX-RAMP and CMMC 2.0 evidence.
Energy, pipelines & grid operators (Houston, ERCOT)
Oil and gas majors, midstream pipeline operators, petrochemical plants, ERCOT market participants and transmission providers. IT/OT segmentation review, control-system boundary testing, supplier-remote-access assessments. Reporting mapped to NERC CIP-005 / CIP-007 / CIP-010 and the TSA pipeline security directives.
Healthcare & life sciences (Texas Medical Center, statewide systems)
Texas Medical Center institutions in Houston, Texas Health Resources, Baylor Scott & White, and the health-tech vendors that serve them. HIPAA Security Rule evaluation evidence, clinical-network and medical-device segmentation review, identity-led methodology, breach-readiness mapped to Tex. Bus. & Com. Code 521.053.
Financial services & fintech (Dallas-Fort Worth)
Charles Schwab in Westlake, the JPMorgan Chase and Fidelity campuses, Comerica, regional banks, credit unions and payment processors. External and internal pentests, identity and privileged-access assessments, BEC-resilience phishing simulation. FFIEC IT Examination Handbook, GLBA Safeguards Rule and PCI DSS 4.0 evidence.
Defence, aerospace & government contractors
Lockheed Martin Fort Worth, Raytheon McKinney, NASA Johnson Space Center and the supplier base around them. CMMC 2.0 Level 2 readiness assessments against NIST SP 800-171, controlled-unclassified-information boundary testing, red team operations scoped against state-actor tradecraft, CUI-safe handling and reporting.
State agencies, higher education & public-sector cloud vendors
Texas state agencies, university systems, and every cloud product sold into them. TX-RAMP Level 1 / Level 2 evidence, TAC 202 and Texas Cybersecurity Framework alignment, the biennial information security assessment under Texas Government Code 2054.515, and Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) reporting.
Texas and US compliance frameworks we report against
Engagement deliverables, a penetration testing statement, executive summary, technical report with proof-of-concept, and a remediation tracker, are formatted to satisfy the evidence requirements of each framework below without additional documentation. US auditors, examiners and TX-RAMP assessors accept HackersHub reports as primary evidence.
- TX-RAMP (Texas Risk and Authorization Management Program) Level 1 / Level 2, mandatory for cloud products sold to Texas state agencies since 2022
- Texas Administrative Code Chapter 202 (TAC 202) and the Texas Cybersecurity Framework (DIR)
- Texas Government Code 2054.515 biennial state-agency information security assessment
- Texas Data Privacy and Security Act (TDPSA), effective 1 July 2024
- Tex. Bus. & Com. Code 521.053 breach notification: affected residents within 60 days, Attorney General within 30 days when 250 or more Texans are affected
- Texas SB 2610 (2025) cybersecurity safe harbor for businesses maintaining a written cybersecurity program
- NERC CIP-005 / CIP-007 / CIP-010 for ERCOT bulk electric system entities
- TSA pipeline security directives (in force since 2021) for critical pipeline owners and operators
- HIPAA Security Rule 45 CFR 164.308(a)(8) technical evaluation
- FFIEC IT Examination Handbook and GLBA Safeguards Rule (16 CFR Part 314, amended 2023)
- PCI DSS 4.0 Requirement 11.4 penetration testing
- CMMC 2.0 Level 2 (NIST SP 800-171), phased into DoD contracts from November 2025
- SOC 2 Trust Services Criteria CC7.1 / CC7.4
- NIST SP 800-115 technical security testing and NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 CA-8
Services delivered across Texas
Full offensive-security catalogue, scoped to your sector and the Texas regulatory regime.
See also:Penetration Testing in Austin
Why Texas enterprises choose HackersHub
HackersHub is a practitioner firm, not a platform reseller, and it is headquartered in Amsterdam with no US office. We structure Texas engagements around that fact rather than around a sales map. External, web-application, API and cloud testing is delivered remotely from the Netherlands; internal network, wireless, OT and physical engagements are delivered on site in Austin, Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth or San Antonio by travelling testers. Scoping calls, status updates and report walkthroughs are scheduled on US Central business hours. Every engagement is led by named OSCP-, OSWE- or CREST-certified offensive security professionals, with Michael van Mameren (OSCP) acting as engagement lead, and reports are written directly against TX-RAMP, TAC 202, NERC CIP, HIPAA, FFIEC, PCI DSS 4.0, CMMC 2.0 and SOC 2 evidence categories. Senior-level scoping calls happen within one business day.
Frequently asked questions: Texas
Ready to Secure Your Systems?
Request a quote for your penetration testing needs.