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 →Your application has security gaps you do not know about yet. Compliance deadlines are approaching. Customer trust is on the line.
Most growing companies know security matters, but it keeps getting deferred. Unpatched dependencies pile up, access controls stay loose, and sensitive data flows through systems without proper encryption. Every week you delay is another week an attacker could find what you have been ignoring. The gap between your security posture and what customers expect widens with every sprint.
Enterprise customers want SOC 2 reports before signing contracts. Investors ask about your security posture during due diligence. Regulatory frameworks like GDPR and PCI DSS carry real penalties for non-compliance, and PIPEDA carries public findings that follow you into every future security review. A single breach can cost more than years of proactive security investment. Lost customer data, legal liability, brand damage, and months of distraction from your core product. This is exactly why a real compliance program pays for itself, and why we run it alongside our fixed-scope pricing rather than an open hourly meter.
"We kept saying we would get to security next quarter. Then a customer asked for our SOC 2 report and we had nothing to show." Series A Founder, Toronto
We run comprehensive security audits across your infrastructure, application code, and cloud configurations. Automated scanning combined with manual penetration testing to find what tools miss, backed by ongoing vulnerability management once the initial gaps are closed.
SOC 2, ISO 27001, PIPEDA, GDPR, PCI DSS. We build a step-by-step compliance roadmap, implement the required controls, and guide you through the audit process from start to certification.
We review your entire stack: authentication flows, data storage, API security, network segmentation, and access controls. Then we prioritize fixes by actual risk, not theoretical severity.
We train your team on secure coding practices, phishing awareness, and access hygiene. Plus, we build and test an incident response plan so you are ready when something happens.
Let us assess your current security posture and build a plan to fix it.
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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 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.
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.
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