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Testing and defence led by a published security researcher with five CVEs, including a CVSS 9.1 Mirai botnet kill-switch.

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Audit-ready, fixed scope

SOC 2, ISO, CPCSC, and the Canadian privacy stack, run end to end with an independent auditor.

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Original research, free tools, and plain-language guides on security and compliance, from a published security researcher.

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Cloud security

Cloud Security Assessment

From $1,000 CAD · scoped to you

Cloud is where startups get breached, usually through the boring stuff: weak identity, exposed services, unprotected data, and quiet misconfigurations. We assess your posture across AWS, GCP, or Azure and hand you a risk-ranked picture of where you are actually exposed.

Delivered by a researcher with five published CVEs, including a CVSS 9.1 in the Mirai botnet, across 20+ penetration testing engagements.

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Built for teams that...

  • Startups running on one or more of AWS, GCP, or Azure
  • Teams preparing for SOC 2, ISO 27001, or an enterprise security review
  • Founders who want an honest baseline of their cloud risk

What we do

  • Identity and access review across your cloud providers
  • Network exposure analysis: public services, open ports, and ingress paths
  • Data protection review: storage, encryption, and access to sensitive data
  • Misconfiguration assessment against provider hardening baselines
  • A risk-ranked findings report with prioritized, concrete remediation steps

What you walk away with

You get a straight answer on where your cloud is exposed and a prioritized plan to close the gaps. That work also feeds directly into SOC 2, ISO 27001, and enterprise security reviews down the line.

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Frequently asked questions

Which cloud providers do you cover?

AWS, GCP, and Azure, individually or in a multi-cloud setup. The core review areas are the same: identity, exposure, data, and misconfiguration.

Is this the same as a penetration test?

No. This is a configuration and posture assessment of your cloud environment. A penetration test actively attacks your systems to find exploitable paths, which is a separate service.

How does this support compliance?

Findings map to common controls in SOC 2 and ISO 27001, so the assessment doubles as readiness work and evidence that you review your posture.

What access do you need?

Usually scoped read-only or audit access to your cloud accounts. We keep access limited to what the assessment requires.

The workspace is included, not quoted

The price above covers the work. It also covers where the work lives, which most buyers are quoted separately as an annual platform subscription.

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.

Cloud Security Assessment, on your timeline

Book a free 30-minute call. We’ll tell you whether it fits, what it costs, and when we can start.

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Not ready to scope this yet? Open a free Workspace and score yourself against the framework first. It is the same register we work from during an engagement, so nothing you do there gets thrown away.

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Track record

Who is actually doing the work

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.

5
Published CVEs, including a CVSS 9.1
76
Controls taken from nothing to a passed SOC 2 Type II
Zero
Exceptions on that Type II report
75 days
Readiness window we have hit every time we have run it
20+
Penetration testing engagements delivered

Published vulnerability research

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.

A SOC 2 Type II built from nothing

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.

Recent engagements

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.