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SOC 2, ISO, CPCSC, and the Canadian privacy stack, run end to end with an independent auditor.

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Incident response

Incident Response Tabletop

From $3,000 CAD · scoped to you

Most teams have an incident response plan nobody has ever run. The first time you find out whether it works should not be the morning it matters. We facilitate a realistic scenario against your actual stack, walk your people through detection, containment, comms and recovery, and write up where it broke.

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Built for teams that...

  • Teams with an incident response plan that has never been tested
  • Companies whose insurer, board, or enterprise buyer has asked for evidence of a tested plan
  • SOC 2 and ISO 27001 programmes that need the exercise on the record

What we do

  • A custom scenario tied to your threat model: ransomware, third-party breach, insider threat, or one specific to your stack
  • A facilitated 3 to 4 hour exercise with exec, engineering, legal and comms in the room
  • Real-time injects and decision points, so the plan is exercised rather than read aloud
  • An after-action report with prioritized gaps, written for both a board and an insurer
  • A 30-day remediation checklist covering what the exercise exposed

What you walk away with

You leave with a plan that has actually been run once, a written record for whoever is asking, and a short list of the things that would have gone wrong. It is the cheapest evidence of incident readiness you can buy, and it doubles as SOC 2 and ISO 27001 evidence.

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Frequently asked questions

How long does it take?

The exercise itself is 3 to 4 hours, run as a half day. The after-action report follows within a week.

Who needs to be in the room?

The people who would really be involved: engineering, an exec who can make a call, and whoever owns legal and customer comms. A tabletop with only engineers in it tests the wrong half of the problem.

Does this satisfy a SOC 2 or ISO 27001 control?

It provides the evidence those frameworks look for around incident response testing. The after-action report is written so it can go straight into an evidence request.

What if the exercise goes badly?

That is the useful outcome. A tabletop where nothing breaks tells you nothing you did not already believe. The gaps go in the report with a remediation order.

Incident Response Tabletop, on your timeline

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Track record

Who is actually doing the work

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.

5
Published CVEs, including a CVSS 9.1
76
Controls taken from nothing to a passed SOC 2 Type II
Zero
Exceptions on that Type II report
75 days
Readiness window we have hit every time we have run it
20+
Penetration testing engagements delivered

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 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.

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.