Testing and defence led by a published security researcher with five CVEs, including a CVSS 9.1 Mirai botnet kill-switch.
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Read the blog →Fintech stacks compliance regimes: SOC 2 for buyers and PCI DSS for card data, on top of the diligence a bank runs before it signs. traztech runs them from one program.
Fintech carries more regulatory weight than almost any other software category, and the requirements compound as you grow.
If you store, process, or transmit card data, PCI DSS applies. Scope reduction and segmentation decide whether this is manageable or painful.
A SOC 2 Type II report is the baseline before a financial institution will run vendor diligence on you.
Regulators and partners expect tamper-evident logging, segregation of duties, and incident response you can prove.
We map the overlapping frameworks into one control set so you implement once and satisfy several. See our full <a href="/fintech" style="color:var(--accent);">fintech security and compliance practice</a>.
One control program scoped to cover both, with segmentation to keep PCI scope tight.
Security & ComplianceA named executive who handles bank vendor diligence and stands behind the answers.
Fractional CISORequired by most fintech partners and PCI, scoped to the cardholder data environment and the flows around it.
Penetration testingA contracted SLA and named responders, which insurers and banking partners increasingly require.
IR Retainertraztech 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 covered by CyberInsider. We have built and run SOC 2 Type II programs across 76 controls, and we map SOC 2 and PCI DSS into one control set. Bank diligence teams get answers that hold up.
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.
If you handle cardholder data, PCI DSS applies regardless. SOC 2 is what your enterprise and financial-institution buyers ask for. We scope one program to address both and keep PCI scope as small as possible.
Yes. A fractional CISO engagement is built for exactly this: bank-grade diligence, answered once, with the evidence behind every answer.
Through tokenization, third-party payment processors, and network segmentation so cardholder data touches as little of your environment as possible. We design this into the architecture.
PCI DSS requires regular penetration testing, and most banking and payment partners require it too. We scope and co-deliver it with our offensive-security partner, then own the remediation.
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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