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Read the blog →In crypto, a bug is a withdrawal. traztech brings offensive-security depth to smart-contract-adjacent infrastructure, key management, and the SOC 2 institutions now demand.
Crypto is the most adversarial environment in software. The threat actors are funded, the exploits are irreversible, and institutional buyers now expect traditional compliance on top.
Private keys, signing infrastructure, and wallet custody are single points of catastrophic failure. Hot-wallet and HSM design decide your blast radius.
Most losses come from compromised infrastructure, leaked keys, and API abuse, not just smart-contract bugs.
Exchanges, custodians, and Web3 infrastructure firms now face SOC 2 requirements from institutional partners and banks.
On-chain incidents are public in real time. A slow or unclear response compounds the damage.
We bring the offensive mindset this space requires, then add the compliance institutions ask for.
Infrastructure, API, and key-management testing, where most real-world losses originate.
Penetration testingSecurity program ownership, key-management policy, and counterparty diligence handling.
Fractional CISONamed responders and a contracted SLA for the moment funds or keys are at risk.
IR RetainerThe report institutional counterparties and banking partners increasingly require.
SOC 2 readinesstraztech is run by a published security researcher with five published CVEs, including CVE-2024-45163 (CVSS 9.1), the kill-switch for the Mirai botnet. We focus on the infrastructure, key management, and API surface where most real-world losses originate, not just the contract. In a space where bugs are withdrawals, that depth matters.
See the full research and CVE record, or read how we work with our partners. Once you are engaged, our auditor management & advocacy and vulnerability management services keep the program moving, tracked through your existing traztech Workspace.
Our focus is the infrastructure, key management, API, and operational security around your protocol, where most real-world losses originate. For dedicated smart-contract audits we will scope adversarial testing with our offensive-security partner.
Institutional counterparties, custodial partners, and banks now require SOC 2 reports before they will work with exchanges and Web3 infrastructure firms. It is becoming table stakes for institutional access.
Through hardware security modules or vetted custody infrastructure, strict separation of hot and cold storage, multi-party signing, and access controls with full logging. We design and review key-management programs.
A retainer gives you named responders and a contracted SLA. On-chain incidents are public in real time, so a fast, clear, coordinated response is part of containing the damage.
We co-deliver penetration testing and red-team work with a specialist offensive-security partner. traztech runs the threat model and remediation, and our partner runs the adversarial testing.
Book a free 30-minute discovery call. We will tell you what applies to you, what it would cost, and when we could start.
Book a callEvery readiness programme needs a control library, an evidence register, policies and a score for the board. Being quoted five figures a year for that is normal. Paying it is not.
| 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.
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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