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.
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Read the blog →ISO/IEC 27001 is the international standard for an Information Security Management System (ISMS), a certifiable, audited framework recognized worldwide.
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Companies selling internationally or into enterprise and EU buyers who prefer a certification over a US attestation, and teams that want a durable security management system.
The core of what ISO 27001 asks you to put in place.
Building the ISMS and evidence typically takes several months. Certification is a two-stage external audit (Stage 1 documentation, Stage 2 effectiveness), followed by annual surveillance audits over a three-year cycle.
We stand up your ISMS, run the risk assessment, build the Statement of Applicability and Annex A controls, and prepare you for a Stage 1 and Stage 2 certification audit, reusing evidence you may already have from SOC 2.
See Security and Compliance, or compare estimated ISO 27001 cost in CAD. Based in Toronto and led by a published security researcher, we deliver across Canada and the US.
Reading about a framework only gets you so far. Our free compliance workspace takes you through all 93 Annex A controls and 25 ISMS clauses (4-10) of ISO 27001, 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.
Yes. An accredited certification body audits your ISMS and issues a certificate valid for three years, with annual surveillance audits.
SOC 2 is a US attestation report on control effectiveness. ISO 27001 certifies a management system and is often preferred by international and EU buyers.
A document listing which Annex A controls apply to your ISMS, whether each is implemented, and the justification for inclusion or exclusion.
Largely yes. The underlying controls overlap heavily, so most of a SOC 2 evidence base carries into an ISMS.
Three years, with annual surveillance audits and a full recertification at the end of the cycle.
Book a free discovery call. We will tell you whether ISO 27001 fits, what it would take, and roughly what it would cost.
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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.