locations · el paso

An Army post, a land port and a hospital district, all sharing one regional labor market.

Most El Paso systems we would look at touch the border or the base. A freight broker's portal is used by staff on both sides of the bridge. A subcontractor near Fort Bliss holds controlled defense data on a small IT budget. And the region's biggest private employers are hospitals.

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For El Paso, Cohash works with defense contractors, logistics and customs brokerage firms, manufacturers tied to Juárez plants, and health providers.

Typical projects are CMMC-ready access control, partner and workforce identity across two countries, and governed data pipelines for clinical and shipment records. Our only US office is in Frisco, Texas, so we serve El Paso remotely and fly in for workshops and launches.

Cohash has no El Paso office. Our US base is Frisco, Texas, so we do most El Paso work remotely and fly out for discovery sessions, assessment prep, design workshops and go-live support.

Ask an engineer facts checked 2026-10-21 · 11 sources
rules
Tex. Bus. & Com. Code §521.053, breach noticeTexas Data Privacy and Security ActCMMC program, 32 CFR Part 170Texas SB 1188 , health record storage
who and what

Who we work with in El Paso, and the rules they work under

industries
  1. Defense contractors around Fort Bliss

    Small and mid-size firms that support the post often keep controlled unclassified information in the same Microsoft 365 tenant as everything else. CMMC Level 2 assessors will ask who can reach that data, from which devices, and with what MFA. We scope a CUI enclave, set up role-based access and produce the access logs and review records an assessment needs.

  2. Customs brokerage, freight and warehousing

    Brokers, carriers and bonded warehouses share portals with drivers, importers and staff in Ciudad Juárez. Accounts get created by email request and rarely closed. We separate partner identities from employees, add federation for the larger trading partners, and put API credentials used for shipment and customs filings under rotation.

  3. Cross-border manufacturing support

    Plants in Juárez run production systems that U.S.-side offices also reach for planning, quality and shipping. That creates remote access paths nobody fully maps. We document each path, place vendor and engineer access behind brokered sessions with time limits, and keep the plant network separate from corporate email.

  4. Hospitals and clinics

    El Paso providers see patients who live on both sides of the border, and patient records flow into billing, analytics and referral tools. We build identity governance tied to credentialing, and we inventory every copy of health records so storage stays in U.S. regions as Texas now requires.

regulations
  1. Tex. Bus. & Com. Code §521.053, breach notice ↗

    A business must tell affected people no later than 60 days after determining a breach happened. If at least 250 Texans are involved, the Attorney General must hear within 30 days. Notifying more than 10,000 people at once also triggers notice to the nationwide consumer reporting agencies.

  2. Texas Data Privacy and Security Act (Bus. & Com. Code ch. 541) ↗

    Effective 1 July 2024. Residents can ask whether a business processes their personal data, see it, correct it and opt out of certain processing. Only the Texas Attorney General enforces it, and there's no revenue threshold, though SBA-defined small businesses are mostly outside it.

  3. CMMC program, 32 CFR Part 170 ↗

    Phase 1 began when the companion DFARS rule took effect on 10 November 2025, with Level 1 or Level 2 self-assessments as a condition of award. Phase 1 stays in place, but the Department of War suspended Phase 2 third-party Level 2 assessments on 13 July 2026 pending a review.

  4. Texas SB 1188 (2025), health record storage ↗

    Starting 1 January 2026, covered entities in Texas have to keep electronic health records physically inside the United States or its territories. That includes copies held by a cloud or software vendor on the provider's behalf.

01We're a small Fort Bliss subcontractor. Do we need CMMC Level 2 now?

It depends on whether your contracts involve CUI and what the solicitation says. Phase 1 self-assessments still apply, and Phase 2 third-party Level 2 assessments were suspended on 13 July 2026 pending a review. We help you scope where CUI lives, tighten access and gather evidence. A certified assessor, not Cohash, performs any C3PAO assessment.

02Our staff in Juárez use the same systems as the El Paso office. Is that a problem?

Not by itself. The risk is shared accounts and access that never expires. We give each person a named identity, apply conditional access by device and location where your policies allow it, and log what cross-border users reach. Data transfer and labor questions belong with your counsel.

03Which breach rules apply if our customers live in Mexico or New Mexico too?

Texas §521.053 lets you notify residents of another state under that state's law. New Mexico has its own statute, and Mexican data protection law is a separate question. We map where each group's data sits so counsel can decide notice quickly.

04Can you secure the API keys our customs and freight systems use?

Yes. We find every credential used for carrier, broker and filing integrations, record an owner for each, move them into a vault and set rotation that won't break a shipment in transit.

05Do you build data pipelines for El Paso hospitals?

We build governed pipelines from EHR and billing systems into a warehouse, with role-based access and storage pinned to U.S. regions. We check with your compliance team on what SB 1188 means for each copy, including backups and vendor test systems.

sources 11 sources linked last checked 2026-10-21 content fingerprint ae79cd18
  1. 01Department of War, CMMC Phase II requirements suspended (July 2026)business.defense.gov ↗
  2. 02Dallas Fed, At the Heart of Texas, El Pasodallasfed.org ↗
  3. 03Texas Comptroller, Fort Bliss economic impact (2023)comptroller.texas.gov ↗
  4. 04BLS, El Paso economy at a glancebls.gov ↗
  5. 05Texas Business & Commerce Code chapter 521statutes.capitol.texas.gov ↗
  6. 06Tex. Bus. & Com. Code §521.053 (Public.Law)texas.public.law ↗
  7. 07Texas Business & Commerce Code chapter 541 (TDPSA)statutes.capitol.texas.gov ↗
  8. 08Texas DIR, Texas Data Privacy and Security Actdir.texas.gov ↗
  9. 0932 CFR §170.3, CMMC applicability and phase-in (Cornell LII)law.cornell.edu ↗
  10. 10BDO, final 48 CFR CMMC rulebdo.com ↗
  11. 11Texas SB 1188, enrolled textcapitol.texas.gov ↗
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