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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Security leadership

Fractional Head of Security

From $2,500/mo CAD · scoped to you

You need someone senior to own security (the program, the roadmap, the first hires), but you’re not ready to pay for a full-time executive. We run your security function part-time, building it up until it’s ready to hand to a permanent internal leader.

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The person in the seat has five published CVEs and has run a SOC 2 Type II end to end in-house, with zero exceptions: the programme.

Built for teams that...

  • Scaling startups that have outgrown ad-hoc, engineer-owned security
  • Companies that need a security program but not yet a full-time exec
  • Teams making their first security hires who want the roles and bar set right
  • Founders who want one accountable owner for security

What we do

  • Ownership of your security program, roadmap, and priorities
  • A written strategy and roadmap tied to your actual risks and commitments
  • Definition of the first security roles, plus help hiring and onboarding them
  • Regular reporting to leadership and, where relevant, the board
  • A transition plan for when you bring the function fully in-house

What you walk away with

You get a real, actively run security function, owned, prioritized, and reported on, at a fraction of a full-time executive’s cost, with a clear path to internalize it when the time is right.

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Frequently asked questions

Is this the same as a fractional CISO?

Very close. The emphasis here is on building and running the function (program, roadmap, and hiring) part-time. We tailor the exact title and scope to how your org talks about the role.

Will you help us hire our own security team?

Yes. We define the first roles, set the bar, and help you screen and onboard so you hire the right people in the right order rather than over- or under-hiring.

What happens when we hire a full-time leader?

We plan for it. You get a documented program and a transition so the incoming leader inherits something organized rather than starting from scratch.

How many hours a week is it?

It scales to your stage and needs. We size the engagement on a discovery call and point you to pricing.

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.

Fractional Head of Security, 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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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.