A fixed-price gap analysis, remediation through to your audit, and upkeep after it. All in a workspace you keep.
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Read the blog →Secureframe is a capable compliance automation platform: continuous control monitoring, evidence collection, a broad integration library, and guided support that helps self-serve teams reach SOC 2. What it cannot do is be the person who runs the program. traztech configures the tool, writes the policies, remediates the red controls, and sits in the audit, and we can do it on top of Secureframe. Here is the honest comparison.
We would rather tell you the truth than win a bad-fit client. Here is when the alternative is genuinely the better choice.
If that is you, Secureframe is a solid choice and we will help you use it well. Many teams adopt Secureframe, then discover the software does not do the hands-on work, which is when they call us to run it.
| traztech | Secureframe | |
|---|---|---|
| What you get | A person who runs the whole program plus the tooling | Software: control monitoring, evidence collection, integrations |
| Typical cost | SOC 2 readiness from $3,000 for the gap analysis, tooling coordinated | Annual software subscription, plus your team's time to run it |
| Automation depth | We deploy and operate it for you | Strong, with guided onboarding support |
| Who remediates findings | We do, hands-on with your engineers | You do, the platform highlights what is red |
| Who writes and owns policies | We write and tailor them to your stack | Templates you adapt and own yourself |
| Who answers the auditor | We sit in the audit and answer the controls | You, the platform collects evidence but does not speak |
| Offensive / pentest | Run with our offensive-security partner, managed end to end | Not included, you source it separately |
| Canadian startup fit | Toronto-based, CAD pricing, PIPEDA and Quebec Law 25 aware | US-oriented platform |
Every number below comes from an engagement record and links to the full case study.
Five figures a year, already approved. They ran the programme in our workspace instead and kept the evidence at the end.
What they did insteadA company with no compliance programme at all reached a SOC 2 Type II with zero exceptions. The platform layer was the straightforward part.
Read the Type II case studyA documented readiness position brought an audit quote down, and four firms pricing identical scope came back far apart.
How the quote came downMore at all case studies.
Secureframe shows you which controls are failing. It does not configure your cloud, write your policies, or run your access reviews. We do, on top of Secureframe if you already have it.
When the auditor asks a control question, software cannot answer. We can, because we built the program and we sit in the room.
A published security researcher stands behind the program, with five disclosed vulnerabilities including CVE-2024-45163 (CVSS 9.1), the kill-switch for the Mirai botnet. The controls reflect real threat models, not only what the software tracks.
Toronto-based, priced in CAD, and fluent in PIPEDA and Quebec Law 25 alongside SOC 2, so the program matches where you operate.
Not strictly. Secureframe is the automation and evidence layer, and it does that well. traztech is the operator who configures Secureframe, runs the program on top of it, remediates what it flags, and gets you through the audit. For most teams the answer is Secureframe plus an operator, not one instead of the other.
Yes. If Secureframe is already set up, we take it over, clean up the configuration, close the open controls, and run it from there. No tool switch and no starting from scratch.
Because SOC 2 audits how your company actually operates, not a checklist a dashboard completes. Someone still writes the policies, fixes misconfigurations, runs access reviews, gathers the evidence the tool cannot auto-collect, and answers the auditor. Secureframe supports that work, it does not replace it.
Secureframe is a compliance-automation platform. traztech is led by a published security researcher with five disclosed vulnerabilities, including the CVSS 9.1 kill-switch for the Mirai botnet. Controls reflect real threat models, not only what the software tracks.
The subscription is cheaper on paper, but it leaves the program work to your team, which is rarely free. traztech bundles the operator and coordinates the tooling, starting from $3,000 for the gap analysis, and you end up with a passed audit instead of a dashboard to staff.
It can help. traztech is Toronto-based, prices in CAD, and works across PIPEDA and Quebec Law 25 as well as SOC 2. Secureframe is a capable US-oriented platform, but the local privacy detail is yours to manage.
traztech Workspace covers the same self-assessment ground for nothing: every control in plain English, an evidence register, policy templates, a risk register, and vendor questionnaires. It does not do continuous monitoring or auto-collection, and we say so plainly. If all you need right now is to understand the scope, you do not need a subscription for that.
No credit card, no trial clock, no locked features. We make money when someone wants help closing the gaps, not from the Workspace.
| traztech Workspace | Other GRC platforms | |
|---|---|---|
| Licence cost | $0. Free forever, no card, no paid tier | $7,500 to $50,000 a year, on an annual contract |
| Control library, evidence register, policy templates, risk register, vendor questionnaires, readiness scoring | Included | Included |
| What it costs inside an engagement with us | $0. You need a workspace either way | Unchanged. The subscription sits on top of the fee |
| What it does to your audit quote | A documented readiness position the audit firm can scope and price against | Nothing. The audit firm prices your readiness, not your tooling |
Platform pricing is a publicly reported range, since none of them publish a number. The fuller comparison, including when a paid platform is the better buy, is on the Workspace page.
Keep the automation. Add an operator who configures it, closes the red controls, and gets you through the audit, instead of software you have to run yourself.
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Track record
We would rather show you the work than a wall of logos. Here is what is behind the advice.
Five published CVEs. CVE-2024-45163 (CVSS 9.1) is a flaw in the Mirai botnet itself, which gave defenders a way to shut down attacker infrastructure. CVE-2026-42626 takes HP ENVY 5000 printers offline from any unauthenticated device on the same network.
The printer is the one that matters on a compliance page: an asset nobody counts as a computer, on a flat network, downed by a device that never had to log in. Auditors ask how controls fail. We have found out first-hand.
At Humera, a venture-backed US security company, Jacob built the compliance programme in-house from nothing: no report, no policies, no documented controls. It ended in a Type II attestation with zero exceptions.
The platform stayed in production throughout, which is the part most readiness projects get wrong: controls are easy to design and hard to retrofit onto a system people already depend on.
For a Waterloo data centre operator we ran SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001:2022 together rather than one after the other, across a production campus, an AI compute platform and a self-hosted collaboration stack. Scoped so further Ontario and Quebec sites enter as they reach production. Findings delivered and remediated.
For an Ontario medtech company putting an AI clinical assistant in front of practitioners, we ran the gap analysis and built the evidence programme behind their SOC 2.