Compliance

Phase 1, Phase 2, then keep it running

A fixed-price gap analysis, remediation through to your audit, and upkeep after it. All in a workspace you keep.

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Security

Testing, review and leadership

Led by a published security researcher with five CVEs. One standard report, letters for your buyers, and retests of your fixes.

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Who we help

Prove you are secure

To the people you sell to, raise from or answer to.

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Resources

Learn the space

Original research, free tools, and plain-language guides on security and compliance, from a published security researcher.

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Security leadership

Interim CISO

From $2,500/mo CAD · scoped to you

When your security leader leaves or you hit a crunch, the program can’t just stop. We step in as an interim CISO to keep audits, customer reviews, and the roadmap moving while you search for a permanent hire, or decide whether you need one.

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The person in the seat has five published CVEs and has run a SOC 2 Type II end to end in-house, with zero exceptions: the programme.

Built for teams that...

  • Companies whose CISO or head of security just departed
  • Teams in a crunch (an audit, a breach, a big deal) with no senior owner
  • Boards that need experienced security leadership on short notice
  • Startups bridging to a permanent hire without losing momentum

What we do

  • Rapid onboarding into your program, tooling, and in-flight commitments
  • Ongoing ownership of the security roadmap, audits, and customer security reviews
  • Board and executive reporting so leadership stays informed
  • Stabilization of anything that was mid-flight when the seat went empty
  • A clean handoff pack for your permanent hire when they arrive

What you walk away with

Your security program keeps its momentum through the gap: audits stay on track, customer reviews get answered, and the next permanent leader inherits an organized program instead of a mess.

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Frequently asked questions

How is this different from a fractional CISO?

An interim CISO is a temporary, higher-intensity engagement to cover a specific gap, usually a departure or a crunch. A fractional CISO is an ongoing part-time arrangement. Many clients start interim and convert to fractional once things stabilize.

How fast can you start?

Quickly. Interim coverage is the point. We prioritize rapid onboarding so nothing in flight stalls. We confirm timing on the discovery call.

Will you help us hire the permanent CISO?

Yes, if you want. We can help define the role, screen candidates, and hand off a documented program so the incoming leader ramps fast.

What does it cost?

It varies by intensity and duration. Interim coverage is more hands-on than a standing fractional arrangement, so we scope it to your situation and point you to pricing.

The workspace is included, not quoted

The price above covers the work. It also covers where the work lives, which most buyers are quoted separately as an annual platform subscription.

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 A documented readiness position the audit firm can scope and price against Nothing. The audit firm prices your readiness, not your tooling

Platform pricing is a publicly reported range, since none of them publish a number. The fuller comparison, including when a paid platform is the better buy, is on the Workspace page.

Interim CISO, on your timeline

Book a free 30-minute call. We’ll tell you whether it fits, what it costs, and when we can start.

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Not ready to scope this yet? Open a free Workspace and score yourself against the framework first. It is the same register we work from during an engagement, so nothing you do there gets thrown away.

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SOC 2 readiness, ISO 27001 gaps, incident response and vendor security, as PDFs you can print or forward. Free, no card.

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Track record

Who is actually doing the work

We would rather show you the work than a wall of logos. Here is what is behind the advice.

5
Published CVEs, including a CVSS 9.1
Zero
Exceptions on a SOC 2 Type II built from nothing in-house

Published vulnerability research

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.

A SOC 2 Type II built from nothing

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 with zero exceptions.

The platform stayed in production 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.

Recent engagements

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.