A bilingual, Canadian-owned, architect-led security firm
IT Sincennes Inc. helps organizations in Ottawa, Gatineau and across Canada secure their systems and get the most from their IT — in French or English, working directly with Patrick Sincennes, the Microsoft-certified architect who does the work.
Security first, without the jargon
Every engagement starts with measurement. An assessment tells you what an attacker could reach and which of those gaps would actually hurt; from there we set the rules and deploy the protections that close them. Strategy through to a delivered, documented project — and the day-to-day running stays yours.
The terms that show up in quotes and security questionnaires are explained simply in our cybersecurity glossary.
- Assessment first. We measure risk before anything else.
- Bilingual. Full service in French and English.
- Local. A National Capital Region firm.
- End to end. From strategy through to delivered, documented projects.
Patrick Sincennes
Patrick spent close to twenty years building and securing the technology behind a growing digital commerce business. He joined in 2006 as a support administrator and grew with it — from agency to cloud-first enterprise — through network administration and on into senior IT and security leadership.
That is where he migrated legacy infrastructure into Azure, AWS and Google Cloud, designed architectures that hold up under load, and took ownership of an entire cybersecurity program: security architecture, identity and access with Microsoft Entra, SIEM, threat and vulnerability management, zero-trust principles. All of it: assessments, audits, remediation and SOC 2 compliance.
IT Sincennes came out of that in 2023: the same work, offered directly to organizations too small to hire this in-house but exposed enough to need it. Patrick lives and works in the Outaouais, operates in French and English alike, and has spent his career bringing engineers along — several of the people he mentored now hold senior roles themselves.
IT training at Centre ACS. Current certifications listed below. Full career history on LinkedIn →
Senior, certified expertise
Founded in 2023 by Patrick Sincennes and built on 20+ years of hands-on IT and security experience, the firm serves SMBs across sectors, with Patrick on the file from scoping through handover.
Cybersecurity architecture
Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect Expert (SC-100)
Cloud architecture
Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert
Identity & access
Microsoft Identity & Access Administrator
Compliance automation
Drata Alliance Partner
The expert you hire also builds Cactus Security
The same expertise behind our client work powers Cactus Security — our free, public security tools, kept in production by IT Sincennes.
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