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Read the blog →CPCSC is Canada's own program: it exists specifically for vendors in the federal defence supply chain. For Canadian startups eyeing Government of Canada defence contracts, it is becoming table stakes.
See also the CPCSC overview.
Where CPCSC fits into a Canadian company’s compliance picture, and where Canadian regulators change the calculus.
CPCSC is administered for Government of Canada contracts and built on ITSP.10.171, the CCCS profile of NIST SP 800-171.
Most vendors start with a Level 1 self-assessment they can attest to. If a contract calls for Level 2, an accredited certification body assesses all 98 requirements, and we run the readiness program that gets you there.
We bring the federal-procurement and cyber vocabulary such as CCCS and ITSG-33 that most early-stage teams lack.
If you also sell to the US Department of Defense, CMMC applies there. Because both build on NIST SP 800-171, the work you do for CPCSC substantially carries over to CMMC, and we run CPCSC Level 2 and CMMC Level 2 readiness as one program rather than two.
Pair CPCSC with NIST CSF as a management backbone, and with CMMC Level 2 if you are targeting US defence contracts too.
traztech is a Toronto (Bay St) security and compliance firm, led by a published security researcher, delivering to startups across Canada and the US.
Reading about a framework only gets you so far. Our free compliance workspace takes you through every requirement one at a time, each explained in plain English with what an assessor will want to see, plus somewhere to attach the evidence and a readiness score that moves as you close gaps. CPCSC has more than one level, so pick the one you are certifying to. No credit card, no trial clock, nothing locked.
Or See what is in the Workspace first.
The workspace is free and stays free. Traztech makes money when someone wants help closing the gaps it finds, not from the tool.
The control library, the evidence, the policies and the readiness score all have to live somewhere. That is normally quoted as an annual subscription. Ours is free, and it is the same workspace we run engagements in.
| 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.
Vendors that want to bid on or stay eligible for Government of Canada defence contracts requiring cyber certification, built on ITSP.10.171.
Pair CPCSC with NIST CSF as a management backbone, and with CMMC Level 2 if you are targeting US defence contracts too.
Yes. traztech is a Toronto-based security and compliance consultancy serving startups across Canada and the US, led by a published security researcher. We run CPCSC engagements end to end.
Book a free discovery call. We will tell you whether CPCSC fits, what it would take, and roughly what it would cost.
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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.
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