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Phase 1, Phase 2, then keep it running

A fixed-price gap analysis, remediation through to your audit, and upkeep after it. All in a workspace you keep.

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Testing, review and leadership

Led by a published security researcher with five CVEs. One standard report, letters for your buyers, and retests of your fixes.

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Prove you are secure

To the people you sell to, raise from or answer to.

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Original research, free tools, and plain-language guides on security and compliance, from a published security researcher.

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Security & compliance

Third-Party Risk Management

From $750/mo CAD · scoped to you

We build or run your vendor risk programme: a vendor inventory, risk tiers, security reviews of the vendors that matter, and a vendor risk register in your TrazTech workspace. Set it up once, or have us run the reviews under a retainer.

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Our principal took a venture-backed company from no programme at all to a SOC 2 Type II with zero exceptions: how it was built.

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Built for teams that...

  • Companies whose SOC 2 or ISO 27001 scope requires vendor risk management
  • Teams with a growing list of SaaS vendors and subprocessors and no process to vet them
  • Companies asked by customers how they manage subprocessor risk
  • Teams that have a process on paper but no time to run the reviews

What we do

  • Vendor inventory: every vendor that touches your data or systems, with an owner, the data shared and contract dates
  • Risk tiering by the data each vendor touches and how critical it is, so low-risk tools get a light check and critical vendors a full review
  • Vendor security reviews: questionnaires sent and assessed, and SOC 2 reports and ISO 27001 certificates reviewed for scope, exceptions and the controls left for you to operate
  • A vendor risk register in your workspace: findings, decisions, follow-ups and next review dates
  • An intake and approval process for new vendors, and the policy that describes it
  • Ongoing option: new vendor reviews and annual re-reviews run by us under a retainer

What you walk away with

You get a working vendor risk programme with records an auditor can sample and a register you can show a customer. Most clients start with the setup and move to ongoing reviews, which sit well alongside continuous compliance.

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Frequently asked questions

Do you build the process or run the reviews?

Either or both. The one-time setup gives you the inventory, tiers, process and register. Under a retainer we also run the reviews: new vendors as they arrive and annual re-reviews of the ones that matter.

Do we need this for SOC 2 or ISO 27001?

Yes. SOC 2 expects you to assess and manage vendor risk (CC9.2), and ISO 27001 covers supplier relationships in Annex A controls 5.19 to 5.22. A register with dated reviews is how you show an auditor the control operates.

What do you look for in a vendor's SOC 2 report?

The scope and period, the opinion, any exceptions, the subservice organizations carved out, and the complementary controls the vendor expects you to run. Anything that matters goes into your register with a decision and a follow-up date.

How deep does each review go?

It depends on the tier. A critical vendor holding customer data gets a full review of its reports and a questionnaire; a low-risk tool gets a short check. The tiering rules are written down so the depth is consistent.

The workspace is included, not quoted

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 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.

Third-Party Risk Management, on your timeline

Book a free 30-minute call. We’ll tell you whether it fits, what it costs, and when we can start.

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Not 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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SOC 2 readiness, ISO 27001 gaps, incident response and vendor security, as PDFs you can print or forward. Free, no card.

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Track record

Who is actually doing the work

We would rather show you the work than a wall of logos. Here is what is behind the advice.

5
Published CVEs, including a CVSS 9.1
Zero
Exceptions on a SOC 2 Type II built from nothing in-house

Published vulnerability research

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.

A SOC 2 Type II built from nothing

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 with zero exceptions.

The platform stayed in production 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.

Recent engagements

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.