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 →Toronto vendors chasing federal defence contracts increasingly need CPCSC certification, built on ITSP.10.171 (Canada’s profile of NIST SP 800-171). We scope your certification level, run the Level 1 self-assessment or the full Level 2 readiness program, and author the SSP, POA&M, and evidence, all from your home market.
Toronto is where most Canadian enterprise buyers sit, which changes who reviews you rather than what you have to build. Bank, insurer and asset-manager procurement teams run deeper third-party reviews than a mid-market SaaS buyer, and they ask earlier in the cycle.
If any of your customers are federally regulated financial institutions, OSFI guideline E-21 on operational risk and resilience reaches you through their third-party obligations even though it does not apply to you directly. Expect questions about continuity, concentration and your own critical suppliers on top of a standard security questionnaire.
The practical consequence is that a SOC 2 report alone is often not the end of the conversation here. Plan for the questionnaire that follows it.
The service itself is the same everywhere. Fixed scope, fixed price, and the same team. What changes by region is which requirement binds first and who is asking. The full detail is on the cpcsc readiness page, and prices are on the pricing page.
Toronto is the largest tech market in Canada and the centre of gravity for FinTech, regulated SaaS, and AI startups. Most of our team works out of the GTA, so a Toronto engagement gets you the tightest feedback loop we offer.
We’re a Toronto firm. Our default is in-person when it helps and async when it doesn’t. We know the local VC ecosystem, the talent pool, and the regulators (OSFI is a 90-minute drive in Ottawa).
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, or all the way through Level 2 readiness: all 98 requirements, the System Security Plan, the evidence, and a mock assessment before an accredited certification body arrives.
For the full service detail, see the CPCSC Readiness page. For fixed-price productized engagements, see pricing.
We do. traztech is a Canadian security and compliance firm working with startups and SMEs on CPCSC Readiness, led by a published security researcher with six disclosed CVEs. Engagements are fixed scope with published pricing, and the first call is free. CPCSC certification decisions rest with the Government of Canada programme, not with a consultant. We run the readiness work and the self-assessment against the control set.
Toronto is where most Canadian enterprise buyers sit, which changes who reviews you rather than what you have to build. Bank, insurer and asset-manager procurement teams run deeper third-party reviews than a mid-market SaaS buyer, and they ask earlier in the cycle. If any of your customers are federally regulated financial institutions, OSFI guideline E-21 on operational risk and resilience reaches you through their third-party obligations even though it does not apply to you directly. Expect questions about continuity, concentration and your own critical suppliers on top of a standard security questionnaire. The practical consequence is that a SOC 2 report alone is often not the end of the conversation here. Plan for the questionnaire that follows it.
No. We are based in Toronto and work with companies across Canada and the United States. Readiness work is largely remote by nature: evidence, policies and control design do not require anybody in the room. Where physical and environmental controls are in scope, for example a data centre or an office in the audit boundary, we attend on site. We have run a dual-framework programme across three physical sites, so that scope is familiar rather than an exception.
Our pricing is fixed and published rather than quoted per city, because the work does not change with the postcode. What moves the number is scope: how many systems and sites are in the boundary, how much already exists, and how many frameworks you are running at once. The audit or assessment fee is separate and is paid to the independent firm that performs it. Every price we charge is on our pricing page.
It depends on the framework and on how much of the programme already exists. Our SOC 2 track runs on a 75-day readiness window and our ISO 27001 readiness track runs 16 weeks, both of which assume you can give the work real attention. A Type II adds an observation period on top, typically three to twelve months, because the auditor has to watch the controls operate. We will give you a realistic date on the first call rather than the one you want to hear.
Yes, and we frequently do. We manage the relationship, handle evidence requests and represent you through fieldwork. Where you have not chosen one, we run the selection: on one engagement, setting out a documented readiness position and confirming a prep firm took $11,000 off the quote, and across four firms bidding identical scope the highest number was 2.1 times the lowest.
Book a free 30-minute discovery call. We’ll tell you whether this engagement fits, 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
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.
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.