The harbor works at dawn. Aransas Pass systems should too.
Aransas Pass grew up around shrimping — the boats in Conn Brown Harbor, the Shrimporee festival that’s run for more than 70 years — and it’s the mainland gateway to Port Aransas, with the ferry landing right here. It’s a working waterfront town with main-street businesses that need their tech to just work. Valhalla is based in Portland, and we’re the ones who make it just work.
Where an Aransas Pass workday actually breaks
Harbor & marine trades running on one office PC
Scheduling, parts orders, invoicing, and payroll for a working waterfront run through an office computer or two — and if that machine quits mid-day, the whole operation feels it before lunch. Those machines should be monitored, backed up, and replaceable without drama.
Manufacturing & fabrication offices
Manufacturing is Aransas Pass’s largest resident industry, and its offices trade in exactly what email fraud hunts: vendor invoices, remittance details, and customer questionnaires. A documented security program answers the questionnaires — and the call-back drill protects the payments.
Main-street shops & restaurants
Along the commercial corridors, the card reader is the business and the same network often carries the register, the back-office PC, and the customer Wi-Fi. Separating them, keeping logins individual, and testing the backups is unglamorous work — it’s also the whole job.
The most expensive email a small business gets looks boring.
It appears to come from your vendor — or your own office — and it changes one detail: where the next payment should go. Payment-diversion fraud works because the email looks routine. The defense is a habit, not a product: any change to payment instructions gets verified by a phone call to a number you already have. We set up the email security (SPF, DKIM, DMARC, MFA) that makes the fakes easier to spot — and we drill the call-back habit with your team.
Texas wrote small businesses a safe harbor. Most haven’t claimed it.
Since September 1, 2025, Texas law (SB 2610) protects businesses with fewer than 250 employees that hold sensitive personal information: if a breach leads to a lawsuit, a business that had implemented and maintained a cybersecurity program conforming to a recognized framework is shielded from exemplary (punitive) damages. The law scales what it expects to your size:
| Your size | What the law expects | What it buys you |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer than 20 employees | A simplified program: password policies and appropriate cybersecurity training for employees | Exemplary damages barred in a breach lawsuit, if the program was in place and maintained when the breach happened |
| 20–99 employees | A moderate program, including the CIS Controls Implementation Group 1 safeguards | |
| 100–249 employees | Full conformity with a recognized framework — NIST CSF, the CIS Controls, the ISO/IEC 27000 family; HIPAA and PCI DSS count where they apply to you |
The law doesn’t invent new duties — it rewards documented ones. The gap for most Aransas Pass businesses isn’t effort, it’s paperwork: the controls exist informally, but nothing is written down, so nothing can be demonstrated. Making it real, and written, is exactly the work we do.
Find your SB 2610 tier, then check the basics.
Written for Aransas Pass’s mix — harbor and marine trades, manufacturing and fabrication offices, and main-street shops and restaurants. Work out which tier of the Texas safe harbor fits your business, then run the plain-language checks: MFA, tested backups, the payment call-back drill, and who still has access they shouldn’t.
- Your SB 2610 tier, in plain words — and what it expects of you
- The payment-diversion call-back drill every office should run
- Access, backup, and point-of-sale checks sized for a small team
Your IT company should be able to be at your door today
Valhalla Technology Services is based in Portland and serves Aransas Pass businesses every week. When something breaks, we’re not dispatching a stranger from three area codes away — we’re driving over, usually the same day, and our reputation with the business down the street is worth more to us than any single invoice.
We also serve the communities around us: Portland, Corpus Christi, Ingleside, Rockport, Port Aransas, Sinton, Gregory, and Kingsville.
The Valhalla standard, wherever you are
- Published pricing: $150–$300 per seat/month — see exactly what’s included
- The $495 Network & Risk Assessment, credited in full toward onboarding if you sign within 30 days
- Security-inclusive by default — backups, patching, and account protection in every plan
- An exit promise in writing: your documentation, passwords, and data are yours, handed over complete
Questions first? Call the sales line, (361) 315-0017.
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Aransas Pass business with IT that keeps getting in the way?
Book the $495 Network & Risk Assessment and get a written findings report — prioritized, priced, and yours to keep. Sign within 30 days and the full fee is credited toward onboarding.
Frequently asked questions
Do you serve Aransas Pass?
Yes — we serve Aransas Pass businesses, with on-site support available from our Portland base.
We run a marine / harbor business. Can you help?
Yes. If your office runs on email, scheduling, and bookkeeping, managed IT keeps it all running — monitored, backed up, and supported. Plans run $150–$300 per seat per month.
Do you come on-site?
Yes — on-site IT support is available for business clients.
How do I get started?
Businesses: call (361) 704-1373 or start with the $495 Network & Risk Assessment — call our sales line, (361) 315-0017.
What are your hours?
Monday through Friday, 8am to 5pm Central Time.
What is Texas SB 2610 — should a Aransas Pass business care?
If you have fewer than 250 employees and hold customer or patient information, yes. SB 2610 (in force since September 1, 2025) shields businesses with a documented, framework-based cybersecurity program from exemplary damages after a breach. The expectations scale with your size — under 20 employees, it's password policies plus staff training. Our Coastal Bend checklist walks you through your tier.