Manufacturing IT Support in Austin, TX
Central Texas makes chips, cars, servers and the parts that go into them, and the suppliers around Samsung, NXP, Tesla and Dell inherit their customers' security demands. NetSys keeps those manufacturers' ERP, shop-floor networks and defenses running, with engineers in Brooklyn who manage the whole environment remotely and answer before the first shift starts.
The short answer
NetSys provides IT support and cybersecurity for manufacturers in Austin: ERP and database uptime, segmented networks that keep machines and test equipment apart from office laptops, ThreatDown managed detection and response, Microsoft 365, tested backups, and NIST SP 800-171 work for defense suppliers. Support is remote and cloud-based from our Brooklyn office. NetSys does not send engineers on site in Austin, so switches, firewalls and replacement PCs ship preconfigured for your maintenance team or contractor to install. The help desk is staffed from 3 a.m. to 10 p.m. Central seven days a week, and pricing is per user per month after an assessment.
Work we have done for manufacturing clients
- Manufacturing
Large manufacturing plant in Virginia
Password management for 125 employees, management of 160 computers, and managed EDR antivirus across production and office devices.
- Manufacturing
Precision machining company recovering from ransomware
Recovery and restoration of 3 servers and 45 workstations, followed by EDR deployment and immutable backup implementation.
Client names are withheld. These examples were chosen for the work involved, not for where the client is, so none is presented as a Austin client.
What changes for an Austin manufacturer
Austin's manufacturing base is built around semiconductors and advanced assembly. Samsung broke ground on its North Austin fab in 1996 and is preparing a second campus in Taylor, in neighboring Williamson County. NXP runs two wafer fabs at opposite ends of the city, Oak Hill and ATMC, and says it employs about 4,000 people in Austin. Infineon operates a fab here as well, Dell is headquartered in Round Rock, and Tesla builds vehicles at Giga Texas on a site of about 2,100 acres in southeastern Travis County. Around them sit smaller suppliers: machine shops, cleanroom and gas-system contractors, electronics assemblers, enclosure fabricators and test labs. Those suppliers share an IT profile. Their customers send security questionnaires and contract clauses before purchase orders, their production and test equipment runs on operating systems the equipment maker controls, and one ERP ties quoting, inventory, production and shipping together. Many have no full-time security staff, and the person who handles IT also handles purchasing or quality.
Remote support for Austin plants and shops
We run Austin manufacturing environments from Brooklyn through NinjaOne, the firewall dashboard and the Microsoft 365 and Intune consoles. NetSys does not send engineers to Austin plants. A replacement switch for the production network arrives with its configuration and port labels, a shop-floor PC arrives imaged for its machine, and your maintenance technician or electrical contractor installs it with our engineer on the phone. Patching is scheduled around shifts and line changeovers rather than in the middle of a run, and changes to anything that touches production go through a written change window you approve. Early shifts are covered, because staffed help desk hours start at 3 a.m. Central, and an outage, ransomware or a dead circuit goes to your dedicated engineer at any hour.
The ERP, the shop floor and the controllers in between
Picture a typical Austin contract manufacturer: quoting, purchasing and inventory in an ERP, lot and serial traceability in a quality system, and CNC machines, pick-and-place lines or test racks whose controllers run Windows releases frozen by the equipment maker. Updating those controllers can void support, so the job is isolation. Production equipment goes into a dedicated VLAN with firewall rules that permit only the traffic each machine needs, typically file transfers to the ERP or the quality database, and nothing out to the internet. Equipment makers that need to reach a machine get a time-limited remote session with multifactor sign-in and a log of what they did. The ERP database gets restore tests on a calendar, and ERP upgrades are booked with the vendor during a planned shutdown or over a weekend.
Power loss and the February 2021 lesson
Central Texas manufacturers learned what grid failure means in February 2021. On February 15, NXP shut down both Austin fabs after being told its electricity would soon be cut; gas and water supplies were curtailed next, and the company described a restart that took far longer than the two weeks a normal restart needs, after pipes ruptured and air handlers were damaged. Samsung and Infineon idled their Austin plants as well. A 60-person supplier has a smaller version of the same problem: a production server that loses power mid-write, a network that comes back in the wrong order, an ERP nobody can reach from home. The plan we build covers UPS runtime for a clean shutdown, a written restart order for servers and network, cloud or out-of-state copies of ERP and quality data, and cellular failover so orders keep flowing.
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Compliance rules for Austin manufacturers
NIST SP 800-171 and CMMC
Suppliers that handle controlled unclassified information for the Department of War still owe NIST SP 800-171 Revision 2, a Level 1 or Level 2 self-assessment and a current SPRS score with an affirmation. What changed on July 13, 2026 is the third-party piece: the department suspended CMMC Phase 2, which would have made Level 2 certification a condition of award starting November 10, 2026, and put Phases 3 and 4 on hold while a CMMC Reform Task Force reviews the program. Its report has not been made public. We keep your controls and evidence current so a restart does not catch you unprepared.
DFARS 252.204-7012 incident reporting
Defense contracts carrying this clause require a cyber incident affecting covered defense information to be reported to the Department through the DIBNet portal within 72 hours of discovery. The contractor must also preserve images of the affected systems for at least 90 days after the report so the government can decide whether to request them. That only works if logging is switched on and retained beforehand and someone knows the reporting path. We configure the logging, hold the images and walk your contracts lead through the report.
Export controls on semiconductor technology
Much of what Austin's chip suppliers handle is technology controlled under the Export Administration Regulations. Under 15 CFR 734.13, releasing controlled technology or source code to a foreign person inside the United States is a deemed export to that person's most recent country of citizenship or permanent residency, and it needs a license whenever exporting to that country would. A release can be as simple as letting someone view a drawing. Your export compliance officer decides who may see what; we enforce it with named groups, access logs and reviews when people change roles.
Texas breach law and the 2025 safe harbor
Section 521.053 of the Business and Commerce Code sets two clocks after a breach: 60 days to notify the people affected and 30 days to report to the Attorney General if at least 250 Texans are involved. Chapter 542, in effect since September 1, 2025, adds an incentive for plants below 250 employees: a cybersecurity program that conformed to a recognized framework at the time of the breach keeps exemplary damages off the table in a lawsuit. This is general information, not legal advice.
This is general information, not legal advice. Confirm your obligations with counsel.
Manufacturers in Austin: FAQs
Who provides IT support for manufacturers in Austin?
NetSys does, remotely from its only office, in Brooklyn, NY. We run managed IT, help desk support, network security and NIST SP 800-171 work for Austin plants, machine shops, assemblers and test labs, either as the whole IT department or alongside a person who covers IT among other duties. NetSys does not send engineers on site in Austin, so hardware for the floor ships preconfigured. Agreements run month to month, and we have been in business since 1998.
How does IT support work for Austin manufacturers?
Problems reach an engineer by phone, email or Teams, and the engineer connects to the affected PC, server, switch or firewall to fix it, usually during the same call. Shop-floor changes are planned with your production lead and applied in an agreed window. Monitoring runs around the clock, and ransomware, a down ERP or a dead circuit goes straight to your dedicated engineer. For physical work such as replacing a switch, our engineer stays on the line with your maintenance technician, since no engineer is sent to Austin plants.
What does IT support cost for a manufacturer in Austin?
Managed IT for a plant is priced per user per month from an assessment. The drivers are the number of office users and shop-floor devices we manage, servers that must stay in the building, how many network segments the floor needs, after-hours change windows, and the compliance evidence that defense or export-controlled work requires. Projects such as a network redesign or an ERP server migration are quoted after scoping. We publish no rate card, and with month-to-month agreements there is no long-term contract to wait out.
How do you help Austin manufacturers with NIST SP 800-171 and CMMC?
We start with a gap assessment against the 110 requirements of NIST SP 800-171 Revision 2, based on what is configured rather than what a policy says. Gaps are closed in order of risk: multifactor authentication, encryption, logging, access reviews and incident response. We document each control, help you write the system security plan and the plan of action, and keep the evidence current for your SPRS score. CMMC Phase 2 is suspended for now, but the self-assessment and DFARS obligations remain in force.
Do you support our ERP and quality software?
We support the platform under them: the servers or cloud tenant, database backups and restore tests, the network between the ERP and the floor, user access and the workstations that run the clients. The applications stay with their vendors, and we work with those vendors on upgrades, server moves and performance problems, timed around your production calendar. We do not claim expertise in every manufacturing package; we make sure the ground yours stands on is patched, monitored, backed up and documented.
A large customer sent us a security questionnaire. Can you help?
Yes. Questionnaires from large manufacturers ask about multifactor authentication, encryption, endpoint detection, backups, network segmentation, vendor access and incident response. We review each question against your actual configuration, fix what can be fixed quickly, and draft accurate answers for your review, with a short remediation plan for anything still open. The evidence stays in IT Glue, so next year's questionnaire takes hours rather than weeks.
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