Cybersecurity compliance for Ottawa & Gatineau businesses
SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST CSF 2.0 and Quebec’s Law 25 — get audit-ready and pass your clients’ and insurers’ requirements. We pair hands-on guidance with compliance automation (Drata) for faster readiness and continuous monitoring. Led in English or French.
Compliance, turned into concrete steps
SOC 2
The attestation your clients and prospects ask for. We take you from gap analysis to audit-ready — defining the right Trust Services Criteria (security, availability, confidentiality and more), writing the policies, implementing the controls and assembling the evidence — then work alongside your CPA auditor through Type I and Type II.
ISO 27001
The international standard for an information security management system (ISMS). We help you scope the ISMS, run the risk assessment and treatment plan, build the Statement of Applicability against Annex A, and prepare your team for the Stage 1 and Stage 2 certification audits — a credential that opens doors with enterprise and international buyers.
NIST CSF 2.0
A practical maturity assessment across the six NIST functions — Govern, Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond and Recover. You get a clear picture of where you stand, a prioritized roadmap of what to fix and in what order, and a common language to report security posture to your leadership and your board.
Quebec Law 25
Quebec’s private-sector privacy law carries real obligations and real penalties. We help you appoint and support your privacy officer, map your personal-information flows, run privacy impact assessments, tighten consent and retention, and stand up a breach-response process — led in French, by a firm that knows the Quebec context.
Compliance automation with Drata
We use Drata, a compliance-automation platform, to take the manual grind out of audit readiness. It connects to your cloud and SaaS stack to collect evidence automatically, continuously monitors your controls against SOC 2, ISO 27001 and NIST CSF, and flags drift the moment something slips — so you reach audit-ready faster and stay there between audits, instead of scrambling once a year.
Which framework do you need?
Not sure where to start? We help you choose. SOC 2 is usually what North American clients ask for in a contract; ISO 27001 carries more weight with enterprise and international buyers; NIST CSF is the practical way to assess and improve your overall posture; Law 25 and PIPEDA are legal obligations, not optional. We scope to your buyers, your contracts and your budget — and many of these frameworks share controls, so the work compounds.
From gap to attestation
We start with a clear gap analysis, then build the policies, controls and evidence — no jargon, at your pace and your budget.
- Gap analysis. Where you stand vs the target framework.
- Prioritized roadmap. What to fix, in what order.
- Policies & controls. Written and implemented.
- Evidence & continuous monitoring. Automated with Drata, ready for the auditor.
Law 25, led in French
Few firms in the region lead Law 25, SOC 2 and ISO 27001 compliance in both French and English. Ours does — backed by Microsoft expert certifications (SC-100) and 20+ years of experience.
- Bilingual. Quebec compliance in French.
- Certified. Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect Expert (SC-100).
- Automated. Continuous evidence and monitoring with Drata.
- Ottawa & Gatineau. A local partner.
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Further reading: SOC 2 or ISO 27001 for SMBs? · Quebec Law 25, explained
Frequently asked questions
SOC 2 or ISO 27001 — which one do we need?
It depends on who’s asking. SOC 2 is the attestation most North American clients request in contracts and security reviews, and it’s often the faster path to a usable report. ISO 27001 is a formal international certification that tends to carry more weight with enterprise and overseas buyers. The two share a great deal of underlying controls, so if you may need both, we sequence the work so the first effort feeds the second. We’ll help you pick based on your actual buyers and contracts.
We already have SOC 2 — do we still need ISO 27001?
Not necessarily. If your clients are satisfied with a SOC 2 report, you may not need ISO 27001 at all. It becomes worth pursuing when a contract specifically calls for ISO certification, or when you’re selling to enterprise or international buyers who treat it as the baseline. Because your SOC 2 controls already cover much of ISO 27001’s Annex A, the incremental effort is smaller than starting from scratch — we’ll scope exactly what’s left so you’re not paying for the same work twice.
How long does it take to get audit-ready?
It depends on the framework, the size of your environment and how mature your controls already are — so we won’t quote a generic timeline. What we can say is that we start with a gap analysis to give you a realistic schedule up front, and that compliance-automation tooling like Drata meaningfully shortens the path by collecting evidence and monitoring controls for you. We scope every engagement to your environment and your deadline, with fixed-fee options where it makes sense.
What exactly does Drata do for our compliance?
Drata is a compliance-automation platform we use to take the manual effort out of audit readiness. It connects to your cloud and SaaS systems to collect evidence automatically, maps that evidence to the controls behind SOC 2, ISO 27001 and NIST CSF, and continuously monitors your environment so it flags any control that drifts out of compliance. The result is faster audit readiness and continuous monitoring year-round, rather than a once-a-year fire drill. We configure it, interpret the findings and translate them into the actions that actually move you forward.
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