Testing and defence led by a published security researcher with five CVEs, including a CVSS 9.1 Mirai botnet kill-switch.
All security →SOC 2, ISO, CPCSC, and the Canadian privacy stack, run end to end with an independent auditor.
All frameworks →Original research, free tools, and plain-language guides on security and compliance, from a published security researcher.
Read the blog →Vanta is a genuinely good compliance automation platform: continuous control monitoring, evidence collection, a large integration library, and an auditor network that gets self-serve teams to SOC 2 quickly. What it does not do is run the program for you. traztech is the operator who configures the tool, writes the policies, remediates the red controls, and sits in the audit, and we can do it right on top of Vanta. 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, Vanta is an excellent choice and we will help you get the most out of it. Many teams buy Vanta, then find the dashboard does not do the human work, which is when they bring us in to run it.
| traztech | Vanta | |
|---|---|---|
| What you get | A person who runs the whole program plus the tooling | Software: continuous monitoring, evidence collection, integrations |
| Typical cost | Roughly from $3K per month, tooling coordinated | Annual software subscription, plus your team's time to run the program |
| Automation depth | We deploy and operate it for you | Excellent, fast and self-serve |
| Who remediates findings | We do, hands-on with your engineers | You do, the dashboard flags 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 tool 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.
A five-figure annual subscription was already priced and approved. They ran the programme in our workspace instead and kept the evidence afterwards. Worth knowing before the renewal conversation, not after.
What they did insteadA SOC 2 Type II across 76 controls passed with zero exceptions on a team of 15. The work that consumed the time was deciding what the controls should be and fixing what was broken, neither of which an integration performs.
Read the Type II case studyThe software subscription is the visible number. The audit is usually the bigger one, and it moves: $11,000 off a single quote once readiness was documented, and a 2.1x spread across four firms pricing the same scope.
See the pricing spreadMore at all case studies.
Vanta shows you which controls are failing. It does not configure your cloud, write your policies, or fix your access reviews. We do that work, on top of Vanta if you already have it.
When the auditor asks a control question, the 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 six disclosed vulnerabilities including CVE-2024-45163 (CVSS 9.1), the kill-switch for the Mirai botnet. Controls reflect real threat models, not the subset a tool can automate.
Toronto-based, priced in CAD, and fluent in PIPEDA and Quebec Law 25 alongside SOC 2, so the program fits where you actually operate.
Not exactly, and we are honest about that. Vanta is the automation and evidence-collection layer, and it is good at it. traztech is the operator who configures Vanta, runs the program on top of it, remediates what it flags, and gets you through the audit. For most teams the answer is Vanta plus an operator, not one instead of the other.
Yes. If you already have Vanta, we take it over, clean up the configuration, close the open controls, and run it from there. You do not have to switch tools or start over.
Because SOC 2 audits how your company actually operates, not a checklist a dashboard completes. Someone still has to write policies, fix misconfigurations, run access reviews, gather the evidence the tool cannot auto-collect, and answer the auditor. Vanta supports that work. It does not do it for you.
Vanta is a compliance-automation company. traztech is led by a published security researcher with six disclosed vulnerabilities, including the CVSS 9.1 kill-switch for the Mirai botnet. The controls reflect real threat models, not just boxes the tool wants checked.
The software subscription alone is cheaper on paper. But the tool leaves the actual program work to your team, which is rarely free. traztech bundles the operator and coordinates the tooling for roughly from $3K per month, and you get a passed audit instead of a dashboard to staff.
It helps. traztech is Toronto-based, prices in CAD, and works fluently across PIPEDA and Quebec Law 25 as well as SOC 2. Vanta is a capable US-oriented platform, but you own the local nuance yourself.
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 | $11,000 off a five-figure quote on one engagement, for a documented readiness position | Nothing. The audit firm prices your readiness, not your tooling |
Pricing in the right column is what compliance automation platforms are publicly reported to charge; none of them publish a number, so treat it as a range rather than a quote. The $11,000 came off the audit firm's own number once the readiness position was documented (the engagement). Where a paid platform is the better buy, and the fuller comparison, 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 a dashboard you have to staff yourself.
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Track record
We are deliberately not a large firm, and 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 across 76 controls with zero exceptions, on a team of 15.
The platform held 99.9% uptime 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.