Ontario, Canada

CPCSC Readiness in Ontario

CPCSC readiness for Ontario founders and operators. CPCSC is Canada’s defence supply-chain cyber certification program, built on ITSP.10.171, the Canadian profile of NIST SP 800-171. If you want to bid on or stay on federal defence contracts, certification is becoming table stakes. We get you from “we have no idea where we stand” to a Level 1 self-assessment you can attest to, and lay the groundwork for the third-party-assessed higher levels.

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Why Ontario

Ontario ecosystem context

Ontario is the centre of gravity for Canadian tech. The Toronto to Waterloo corridor holds the largest concentration of B2B SaaS, FinTech, and AI companies in the country, and Ottawa adds a completely different buyer: federal departments, defence primes, and the cybersecurity supply chain selling into them. The compliance ask changes with the buyer. Toronto and Waterloo companies get SOC 2 questionnaires from US enterprise procurement. Ottawa vendors get asked about ITSG-33 and CPCSC instead.

This is our home province. We are based in Toronto, so Ontario engagements get the tightest feedback loop we offer, in person when it helps and async when it does not. On the federal side, one thing worth saying before you sign rather than after: we deliver CPCSC Level 1 only, the self-assessed entry tier against ITSP.10.171. If a prime is asking you for a higher, third-party-assessed level, we will tell you that up front.

What this engagement covers

CPCSC Readiness scope

CPCSC is Canada’s defence supply-chain cyber certification program, built on ITSP.10.171, the Canadian profile of NIST SP 800-171. If you want to bid on or stay on federal defence contracts, certification is becoming table stakes. We get you from “we have no idea where we stand” to a Level 1 self-assessment you can attest to, and lay the groundwork for the third-party-assessed higher levels.

  • CPCSC / ITSP.10.171 scoping and certification-level determination
  • Level 1 self-assessment across the required security requirements
  • Gap remediation plan mapped to NIST SP 800-171 controls
  • Evidence, policies, and System Security Plan (SSP) authoring
  • Assessment coordination for third-party-verified certification levels

For the full service detail, see the CPCSC Readiness page. For fixed-price productized engagements, see pricing.

Pairs well with

Services Ontario clients usually bundle

vCISO / Fractional CISO in Ontario

virtual chief information security officer for startups, MSPs, and growth-stage companies that need executive security leadership without a full-time hire.

SOC 2 Compliance in Ontario

SOC 2 readiness, control implementation, and audit coordination, delivered in 75 days.

Incident Response Retainer in Ontario

on-call security incident response with a contracted SLA, war-room leadership, and postmortem ownership.
Other locations

CPCSC Readiness in other locations

Toronto Ontario, Canada Greater Toronto Area Ontario, Canada Waterloo Ontario, Canada Ottawa Ontario, Canada Montreal Quebec, Canada Windsor Ontario, Canada Detroit Michigan, United States Vancouver British Columbia, Canada Calgary Alberta, Canada Edmonton Alberta, Canada Halifax Nova Scotia, Canada Hamilton Ontario, Canada London Ontario, Canada Kingston Ontario, Canada Quebec City Quebec, Canada Winnipeg Manitoba, Canada Victoria British Columbia, Canada Canada Canada Ontario Ontario, Canada Quebec Quebec, Canada British Columbia British Columbia, Canada Alberta Alberta, Canada United States North America
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