Testing and defence led by a published security researcher with five CVEs, including a CVSS 9.1 Mirai botnet kill-switch.
All security →SOC 2, ISO, CPCSC, and the Canadian privacy stack, run end to end with an independent auditor.
All frameworks →Original research, free tools, and plain-language guides on security and compliance, from a published security researcher.
Read the blog →The NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 2.0 is a widely used, voluntary framework for organizing and improving a security program. It is not a certification but a common yardstick that buyers, insurers, and boards understand. We assess your program against all six Functions and hand you a clear, prioritized picture of where you stand and what to fix first.
You get an honest, structured read on your security program across the six CSF Functions and a roadmap that tells you what to do first. Because CSF 2.0 added the Govern Function, the assessment also surfaces where security ownership and accountability are missing, which is often the real gap behind the technical ones.
CSF 2.0 organizes cybersecurity into six Functions: Govern, Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, and Recover. Govern was added in version 2.0 to emphasize organizational context, roles, and risk-management strategy alongside the original five.
No. NIST CSF is a voluntary framework for organizing a security program, not a certifiable standard. There is no official CSF certificate. It is valuable as a shared language and a baseline that maps cleanly to frameworks you can certify against.
A CSF assessment measures the maturity of your program and produces a roadmap; SOC 2 and ISO 27001 are formal attestations or certifications with auditors. A CSF assessment is often the best first step before committing to either one.
The findings work at two levels: a detailed roadmap for your technical team and an executive summary for boards, investors, or insurers. We produce both so the assessment is useful for decisions, not just documentation.
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 | $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.
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Book a callNot 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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We are deliberately not a large firm, and we would rather show you the work than a wall of logos. Here is what is behind the advice.
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.
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.
The platform held 99.9% uptime 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.
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.