Virtual data rooms for Texas firms

The firms that share confidential documents in Texas

County Business Patterns counted 670,878 employer establishments in Texas in 2023. Measured per person against the 50 states and DC, Texas ranks 31st for securities and investment firms, at 32.1 per 100,000, 32nd for accounting, tax, bookkeeping and payroll firms, at 36.5, and 34th for offices of real estate agents and brokers, at 37.1. For law, 13,833 offices make 45.0 per 100,000 and a rank of 21st.

These are mostly small businesses. 10,006 of the state's law offices and 7,837 of its securities and investment firms have fewer than five employees.

• Offices of lawyers: 13,833
• Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping and payroll services: 11,224
• Securities and investment firms: 9,871
• Corporate and regional managing offices: 3,705
• Offices of real estate agents and brokers: 11,405

What sets Texas's metros apart

Publishing, including software publishing, is the sector that most marks out Austin, at 571 establishments and 2.2 times the national share; internet and other information services (232, 2.2 times) and data processing and hosting (291, 2.0 times) come next.

Dallas's business mix leans furthest toward corporate and regional headquarters, with 1,750 establishments at 1.6 times the national share; oilfield and mining support services (420, 1.5 times) and wholesale agents and brokers (1,189, 1.5 times) come next.

Against the national mix, Houston runs heaviest in oil and gas extraction: 363 establishments, 3.6 times the share you would see across the country; oilfield and mining support services (805, 3.5 times) and chemical manufacturing (473, 1.7 times) come next.

Oilfield and mining support services is the sector that most marks out San Antonio, at 198 establishments and 2.6 times the national share; rental and leasing (459, 1.4 times) and heavy and civil engineering construction (326, 1.4 times) come next.

Texas's sixty-day breach clock

Texas sets its breach rule in Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 521.053, part of the Identity Theft Enforcement and Protection Act.

The attorney general's notice is filed through an electronic form on the attorney general's website.

Both clocks run from the date "on which the person determines that the breach occurred", not from the date of the intrusion.

• Individuals: Without unreasonable delay and not later than the 60th day after the person determines the breach occurred. Applies when sensitive personal information was or is reasonably believed to have been acquired.
• Attorney General: As soon as practicable and not later than the 30th day after that determination. Applies when the breach involves at least 250 Texas residents.

What a ShareAndGo room gives a Texas team

Houston and Dallas firms routinely send patient billing files, ID scans and account details to outside reviewers.

For documents you share through ShareAndGo, the activity log records every view and download, and watermarked view-only pages carry the reader's email address and the date.

The watermark is a per-room setting, on by default. Reviewers enter with a six-digit code sent to their email and need no account. Each group sees only its folders, and the chained log exports as CSV for a fast answer about which files someone opened inside ShareAndGo.