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 hold donor and beneficiary data on a lean budget. traztech protects what matters most with a practical program priced for a mission, not a margin.
Nonprofits hold sensitive data and run on tight budgets, which makes them frequent targets and leaves little room for waste.
Payment details, personal information, and sometimes health or immigration data carry real privacy obligations and real harm if exposed.
Every dollar is accountable to the mission, and there is rarely anyone whose job is security.
Privacy legislation applies to your donor data, and funders increasingly attach security and privacy conditions to grants.
Nonprofits are heavily targeted by phishing and wire-fraud schemes that exploit lean processes.
We focus the budget on the controls that protect donors and the mission, and skip the rest.
MFA, backups, donor-data protection, and the documentation funders and partners ask for.
Security & CompliancePart-time security ownership scoped to a nonprofit budget and accountable to your board.
Fractional CISONamed responders for a breach or fraud event, without an internal team.
IR RetainerLeast privilege and backups for the systems holding donor and beneficiary data.
Cloud Securitytraztech 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 right-size the program to a nonprofit budget and put the dollars where they protect donors and the mission, not on overhead you do not need.
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.
Nonprofits hold donor payment and personal data, often run lean processes, and are frequently targeted by phishing and wire-fraud schemes. Attackers automate, so size offers little protection.
Privacy legislation generally applies to the personal information you collect from donors and beneficiaries. The specifics depend on your jurisdiction; our compliance framework finder helps you scope it.
Start with the controls that move the most risk: multi-factor authentication, tested backups, donor-data access controls, and phishing awareness. We right-size a baseline to what you can spend.
Increasingly, yes. Grants and partnerships often attach security and privacy conditions, and a documented program makes those conversations straightforward.
Yes. A fractional CISO and a right-sized baseline give you accountable, expert security scoped to your budget rather than enterprise overhead.
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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