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 →The first enterprise prospect sends a security questionnaire, or your Series A diligence flags security risk. traztech gets you ready before either becomes a blocker.
Early-stage companies hit security demands suddenly, usually attached to a deal or a raise you cannot afford to lose.
A large prospect sends a security questionnaire and the deal stalls because you have no program to point to.
Investors and enterprise customers increasingly expect SOC 2, and the timeline means you should start before you think you need to.
You cannot justify a full-time CISO yet, but you still need someone accountable for the program.
Retrofitting security after you scale costs far more than designing it in early.
We give startups a real program at a price that fits the stage, with productized SKUs you can budget.
A fixed-scope path to audit-ready, timed so you are ready when the raise or the deal arrives.
SOC 2 readinessA named security owner for questionnaires and diligence without a full-time hire.
Fractional CISOtraztech 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, and our principal bootstrapped a product to $13K MRR. We know the startup constraint set first-hand and we have delivered SOC 2 Type II across 76 controls.
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.
Before you think you need it. Readiness takes time, and the trigger is usually a deal or a raise you cannot delay. Starting early means the report is ready when the moment arrives.
A fractional CISO engagement can turn it around quickly while building the underlying program, so your answers are true and you have something real behind them.
At Series A and beyond, technical and security diligence is common, and enterprise revenue often depends on SOC 2. Getting ahead of it removes a diligence risk.
We position productized SKUs in roughly the from $3K per month range, scoped to the stage, so you get a real program without an enterprise budget.
Not yet. A fractional CISO gives you a named, accountable security owner for questionnaires, diligence, and the program without a six-figure full-time hire.
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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