Testing and defence led by a published security researcher with five CVEs, including a CVSS 9.1 Mirai botnet kill-switch.
All security →SOC 2, ISO, and the Canadian privacy stack, run end to end with an independent auditor.
All frameworks →Original research, free tools, and plain-language guides on security and compliance, from a published security researcher.
Read the blog →You have outgrown ad hoc security but cannot justify a full security org. traztech runs the program, the audits, and the vendor risk while you scale into it.
Mid-market companies sit in the gap: too big for ad hoc security, not yet staffed for a full security function. The demands arrive from every direction at once.
SOC 2, ISO 27001, and customer-specific requirements often land together, each with overlapping but distinct controls.
You now have a vendor stack of your own, and your customers audit it. You need a real third-party risk program.
Customer audits, renewal audits, and questionnaires consume real time without a coordinated program behind them.
A full security team is a large fixed cost; under-staffing leaves gaps. The right answer is usually a blend.
We run the security function at the maturity your stage needs, and hand it off as you build internal headcount.
Program ownership across SOC 2, ISO 27001, vendor risk, and board reporting.
Fractional CISOOne control set mapped to several frameworks so you implement once and report many times.
Security & ComplianceRecurring testing on a schedule that satisfies both customers and auditors.
Penetration testingA named team and SLA your customers and insurers can point to.
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. We have built and run SOC 2 Type II programs across 76 controls, and we map one control set to several frameworks so you implement once and report many times. You get a program built by people who do this at depth, not a generalist consultancy.
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.
For most mid-market companies the answer is a blend: a fractional CISO to own the program and strategy, with internal hires for day-to-day operations. We help you decide where the line sits and hand off as you staff up.
They share most underlying controls. We map one control set to both frameworks so you implement once and report against each, rather than running two parallel projects.
With a documented third-party risk program: a vendor inventory, risk tiering, security review at onboarding, and periodic reassessment. A fractional CISO engagement stands this up.
A coordinated program with a current SOC 2 report, a maintained evidence repository, and standard questionnaire answers turns repeated audits from fire drills into routine.
Yes, delivered with our offensive-security partner on a recurring schedule that satisfies both customer and audit requirements.
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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