Canada

Incident Response Retainer in Canada

IR retainer for Canadian founders and operators. Insurers, customers, and regulators all want to know who answers the phone at 2 AM. A retainer gives you a named team, an SLA, and a contract you can cite, for a fraction of building an internal SOC.

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Canadian ecosystem context

Canada’s tech economy is concentrated in a short list of markets: the Toronto to Waterloo corridor, Montreal, Vancouver, Ottawa, and Calgary. The pattern repeats no matter which one you are in. A Canadian company’s next stage of growth depends on selling into the United States, and in the US, SOC 2 is the price of entry rather than a nice-to-have. Stack the domestic privacy layer on top, PIPEDA nationally and Quebec Law 25 if you touch Quebec residents, and the list gets long before the first US enterprise deal closes.

We are a Toronto firm and we work with companies across the country remotely, in whichever time zone you are in. The Canadian specifics are the part outside firms miss: PIPEDA and Law 25 overlap with SOC 2 more than most people expect, so the evidence should be built once rather than twice, and the auditor’s bill is usually quoted in USD, which belongs in the budget before you start. We prep you to pass. An independent CPA firm signs the report.

Incident Response Retainer scope

Insurers, customers, and regulators all want to know who answers the phone at 2 AM. A retainer gives you a named team, an SLA, and a contract you can cite, for a fraction of building an internal SOC.

  • 24/7 on-call response with contracted SLA
  • War-room leadership and decision support
  • Forensics coordination and evidence preservation
  • Customer, regulator, and insurer communications
  • Postmortem authoring and remediation tracking

For the full service detail, see the Incident Response Retainer page. For fixed-price productized engagements, see pricing.

Services Canadian clients usually bundle

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