A fixed-price gap analysis, remediation through to your audit, and upkeep after it. All in a workspace you keep.
All compliance →Led by a published security researcher with five CVEs. One standard report, letters for your buyers, and retests of your fixes.
All security →To the people you sell to, raise from or answer to.
All industries →Original research, free tools, and plain-language guides on security and compliance, from a published security researcher.
Read the blog →HIPAA is US law, so it matters to Canadian health-tech startups the moment they handle PHI for US customers or partners. A Canadian company can be a HIPAA business associate even if it never operates a clinic in the US.
See also the HIPAA overview.
Where HIPAA fits into a Canadian company’s compliance picture, and where Canadian regulators change the calculus.
If you process PHI for US covered entities, you will be asked to sign a BAA and meet the HIPAA Security Rule.
US healthcare buyers will ask where PHI is stored. We help you document and control residency.
Canadian health data is governed by PIPEDA and provincial laws like Ontario PHIPA. HIPAA is additive, not a replacement.
HIPAA is fundamentally about serving US customers. For a Canadian startup it is the gate to selling into US healthcare, and it usually travels alongside a SOC 2 report that US buyers also expect.
Handle Canadian health data under PIPEDA and applicable provincial health-privacy laws such as PHIPA, and layer HIPAA on top for the US side. Many health-tech startups run all of these plus SOC 2 together.
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 all 84 requirements of HIPAA, one at a time, each explained in plain English with what an auditor will want to see, plus somewhere to attach the evidence and a readiness score that moves as you close gaps. No credit card, no trial clock, nothing locked.
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 | 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.
Only if it handles US protected health information, for example as a business associate to a US healthcare provider. Canadian health data is governed by PIPEDA and provincial laws like PHIPA.
Handle Canadian health data under PIPEDA and applicable provincial health-privacy laws such as PHIPA, and layer HIPAA on top for the US side. Many health-tech startups run all of these plus SOC 2 together.
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 HIPAA engagements end to end.
Book a free discovery call. We will tell you whether HIPAA fits, what it would take, and roughly what it would cost.
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Free PDFs, no card
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
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 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.
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.