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Read the blog →SOC 2 is not Canadian or American: it is an AICPA standard used across North America. For Canadian startups, it is usually the fastest way to clear the security review a US enterprise buyer runs before signing.
See also the SOC 2 overview.
Where SOC 2 fits into a Canadian company’s compliance picture, and where Canadian regulators change the calculus.
Your first big US customer sends a security questionnaire. A SOC 2 report answers it in one document and unblocks the deal.
US buyers often ask where Canadian vendors host data. SOC 2 confidentiality and availability criteria are where you document residency and controls.
We run SOC 2 Type II readiness end to end from Toronto and coordinate your CPA auditor, so you are not managing a US firm across a border.
Most Canadian startups pursue SOC 2 specifically to sell into the US. The report is recognized by American procurement and security teams and travels with you as you move upmarket: one attestation that answers the questionnaire for every US buyer.
If you handle Canadian personal data, pair SOC 2 with PIPEDA, and Quebec Law 25 if you touch Quebec. SOC 2 covers the security controls; the privacy laws cover the consent, rights, and breach reporting an attestation alone does not.
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 61 criteria of SOC 2, 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.
Not by law, but most US enterprise buyers require it before signing. For Canadian SaaS, SOC 2 is usually the fastest way to clear a US customer security review.
If you handle Canadian personal data, pair SOC 2 with PIPEDA, and Quebec Law 25 if you touch Quebec. SOC 2 covers the security controls; the privacy laws cover the consent, rights, and breach reporting an attestation alone does not.
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 SOC 2 engagements end to end.
Book a free discovery call. We will tell you whether SOC 2 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.
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