A fixed-price gap analysis, remediation through to your audit, and upkeep after it. All in a workspace you keep.
All compliance →Led by a published security researcher with five CVEs. One standard report, letters for your buyers, and retests of your fixes.
All security →To the people you sell to, raise from or answer to.
All industries →Original research, free tools, and plain-language guides on security and compliance, from a published security researcher.
Read the blog →VCISO for Quebec founders and operators. A vCISO owns your security program: policies, controls, vendor risk, audits, board reporting, and incident leadership. You get a named executive on customer security questionnaires, regulator letters, and the cap table without a $300K+ comp package.
Quebec runs on the Montreal AI cluster, a deep SaaS bench, and a gaming industry with real scale, with Quebec City adding insurtech and govtech on top. It is also the strictest privacy jurisdiction in Canada by penalty exposure. Quebec Law 25 carries administrative penalties up to $10 million CAD or 2 percent of worldwide turnover, and penal fines up to $25 million or 4 percent, a different order of magnitude from PIPEDA. Section 12.1 requires meaningful disclosure when a decision is based exclusively on automated processing, and that lands squarely on AI products.
Most firms selling compliance in Canada know SOC 2 and hand-wave Law 25. We deliver both, bilingually where required, and we know the detail that matters: privacy impact assessments, data-portability windows, and the CAI’s breach-reporting expectations. If you sell in Quebec and into the US, you are running two regimes at once, and they are cheaper to scope together than to discover one at a time.
A vCISO owns your security program: policies, controls, vendor risk, audits, board reporting, and incident leadership. You get a named executive on customer security questionnaires, regulator letters, and the cap table without a $300K+ comp package.
For the full service detail, see the vCISO / Fractional CISO page. For fixed-price productized engagements, see pricing.
We do. traztech is a Canadian security and compliance firm working with startups and SMEs on vCISO / Fractional CISO, led by a published security researcher with five disclosed CVEs. Engagements are fixed scope with published pricing, and the first call is free. Where an independent assessor, auditor or certification body is required, that is a separate firm from the one doing your readiness work. We will tell you plainly which parts we can and cannot sign.
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. SOC 2 Type I commonly takes a few months from start to report, and a Type II adds a 3, 6 or 12 month observation window, because the auditor has to watch the controls operate. ISO 27001 certification commonly takes several months, including the Stage 1 and Stage 2 audits. What drives it is the gaps found, the observation period and the auditor’s or certification body’s schedule. 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: setting out a documented readiness position before firms quote tends to bring the quotes down, and comparing several firms on identical scope shows how far apart they can be.
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 | 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.