Compliance

Phase 1, Phase 2, then keep it running

A fixed-price gap analysis, remediation through to your audit, and upkeep after it. All in a workspace you keep.

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Security

Testing, review and leadership

Led by a published security researcher with five CVEs. One standard report, letters for your buyers, and retests of your fixes.

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Who we help

Prove you are secure

To the people you sell to, raise from or answer to.

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Resources

Learn the space

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

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Canadian certification

CyberSecure Canada Readiness

From $2,500 CAD · scoped to you

CyberSecure Canada certifies small and medium organizations against the national baseline standard, CAN/DGSI 104. We get you ready, then an accredited certification body audits you.

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Defence suppliers can also check the CPCSC Level 1 requirements on the same engagement.

Built for teams that...

  • Small and medium Canadian organizations whose buyers, insurers or supply chain ask for a recognized baseline
  • Companies that want a credible first certification before SOC 2 or ISO 27001
  • Defence suppliers preparing for the CPCSC Level 1 self-assessment
  • MSPs and IT firms whose clients need the certification

What we do

  • Phase 1 gap analysis against CAN/DGSI 104 at Level 1 or Level 2: leadership, accountability, training and risk assessment, the eight baseline controls, and the controls that apply to your environment (mobility, cloud, websites, portable media, payment systems, logging)
  • The 2026 revision covered: phishing-resistant authentication for administrators, EDR at Level 2, training on AI-enabled social engineering, and supplier assurance
  • A gap report with every requirement assessed, ranked findings and a roadmap
  • Phase 2 remediation: policies, an incident response plan and its test, backup and recovery testing, access control, and the evidence the auditor will ask for
  • Support through the certification audit by an accredited certification body
  • Optional CPCSC Level 1 check against its 13 requirements, mapped to the same work

What you walk away with

You go into the audit with every requirement evidenced and a workspace that keeps it current for renewal. The certificate is issued by an accredited certification body under the Standards Council of Canada programme; we prepare you and support you through it.

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Frequently asked questions

Who runs CyberSecure Canada?

The Standards Council of Canada administers the programme, and accredited certification bodies carry out the audits and issue certificates. The standard itself is CAN/DGSI 104, published by the Digital Governance Standards Institute. We are not a certification body; we prepare you for the audit.

What is the difference between Level 1 and Level 2?

Level 1 is for organizations starting out: the core requirements every certified organization meets. Level 2 adds controls for a more mature programme, such as EDR, phishing-resistant authentication for administrators, network segmentation and supplier assurance. We help you pick the level your buyers expect.

Is it the same as CPCSC?

No. CPCSC is the Canadian Program for Cyber Security Certification for defence suppliers, and Level 1 is an annual self-assessment against 13 requirements. The two overlap heavily, so we assess both in one engagement when you need both.

How long does certification take?

It depends on what the gap analysis finds and on the certification body's schedule. After Phase 1 you get a realistic plan for remediation and the audit.

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 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.

CyberSecure Canada Readiness, 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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Free PDFs, no card

Get the checklists that go with this

SOC 2 readiness, ISO 27001 gaps, incident response and vendor security, as PDFs you can print or forward. Free, no card.

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Track record

Who is actually doing the work

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
Zero
Exceptions on a SOC 2 Type II built from nothing in-house

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 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.

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.