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vCISO · FinTech

vCISO for FinTech

FinTechs carry security and regulatory weight that demands an executive owner. A traztech vCISO gives you that leadership across SOC 2, PCI, vendor risk, and partner due diligence.

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From $2,500 CAD · per month See full pricing →

Why FinTech companies need vCISO

  • Bank partners and regulators expect a clear security leader accountable for the program.
  • FinTechs juggle SOC 2, PCI DSS, and partner due diligence simultaneously, which needs coordinated ownership.
  • Vendor and third-party risk is heightened when money and financial data are involved.
  • A vCISO gives you a named executive for partner, customer, and regulator conversations.

More context on this sector on our FinTech industry page.

What our vCISO engagement covers

Tailored to FinTech, delivered by a Toronto security and compliance team led by a published security researcher, with our offensive-security partner where offensive testing is involved.

  • Ownership across SOC 2, PCI DSS, and bank-partner due diligence
  • Regulator- and partner-facing security representation
  • Ownership of your security program: policies, standards, and exceptions
  • Security-questionnaire, audit, and framework-readiness leadership
  • Third-party and vendor risk management
  • Board-, customer-, and regulator-facing security reporting

See the full vCISO service page, or productized pricing for fixed-scope engagements.

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vCISO for FinTech: common questions

Can a vCISO handle bank-partner due diligence?

Yes, representing your security program to bank partners and processors is a core part of the role.

Does a vCISO cover both SOC 2 and PCI?

Yes, the vCISO coordinates all your frameworks so controls are built once and evidence is shared.

Is a fractional CISO credible to regulators and partners?

A named, accountable executive with a documented program is what they are looking for. Our vCISO is a published security researcher, which carries weight in those conversations.

vCISO for FinTech, on your timeline

Book a free 30-minute discovery call. We will tell you whether this engagement fits, what it would cost, and when we could start.

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The same work, without the line item

Every 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.

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.