Security

Real offensive depth

Testing and defence led by a published security researcher with five CVEs, including a CVSS 9.1 Mirai botnet kill-switch.

All security →
Compliance

Audit-ready, fixed scope

SOC 2, ISO, CPCSC, and the Canadian privacy stack, run end to end with an independent auditor.

All frameworks →
Resources

Learn the space

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

Read the blog →
What We Solve

Security Vulnerabilities & Compliance

Your application has security gaps you do not know about yet. Compliance deadlines are approaching. Customer trust is on the line.

Security keeps getting pushed to next quarter

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

A structured approach to closing security gaps

01

Vulnerability assessment and penetration testing

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.

02

Compliance roadmap and certification

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.

03

Security architecture review

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.

04

Security training and incident response

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.

Results our clients see

85% Reduction in critical vulnerabilities within 90 days
6 wks Average time to SOC 2 Type I readiness
$0 Breaches across clients with ongoing security retainers

Go deeper

Ready to close your security gaps?

Let us assess your current security posture and build a plan to fix it.

Schedule a Security Assessment

Track record

Who is actually doing the work

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.

5
Published CVEs, including a CVSS 9.1
76
Controls taken from nothing to a passed SOC 2 Type II
Zero
Exceptions on that Type II report
75 days
Readiness window we have hit every time we have run it
20+
Penetration testing engagements delivered

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 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.

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.

Before you go

Want a few notes on this by email?

Short, practical notes on security vulnerabilities. Unsubscribe in one click, and replies reach me directly.

From Jacob Masse, founder of traztech. No spam, unsubscribe in one click.