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COMPLIANCE & GOVERNANCE

Audit-ready, by the people the auditors trust.

PIPEDA. Quebec Law 25. SOC 2. ISO 27001. Four frameworks, one practitioner-led team, and the paperwork ready before the auditor asks for it.

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The four frameworks

Written by people who have signed off on real audits.

Our practitioners have led implementations and sat opposite auditors in the room. The frameworks below are not academic exercises here. They are the work.

01 / FEDERAL Canada-wide

PIPEDA

Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act

The federal baseline for how private-sector organisations collect, use, and disclose personal information. Mandatory for most Canadian businesses engaged in commercial activity.

What we do

  • Data inventory and flow mapping
  • Privacy policy drafting and plain-language rewrite
  • Breach response playbook (72-hour reporting)
  • Consent workflow design and tracking
  • OPC complaint response and remediation
02 / PROVINCIAL Quebec

Quebec Law 25

An Act to modernize legislative provisions as regards the protection of personal information

Quebec's privacy regime is stricter than federal PIPEDA. Full enforcement is in effect, with penalties up to 4 percent of global revenue. If you have Quebec customers, employees, or data, this applies.

What we do

  • Privacy Officer function (fractional or named)
  • Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs)
  • Cross-border transfer impact review
  • Enhanced consent and transparency controls
  • Data portability and right-to-erasure workflows
03 / ATTESTATION AICPA

SOC 2 Type I & II

Service Organization Control report, Trust Services Criteria

The report your enterprise customers ask for in their vendor onboarding packets. Covers security, availability, confidentiality, processing integrity, and privacy, the controls you must prove.

What we do

  • Readiness assessment and gap analysis
  • Control design across all five TSCs
  • Evidence collection system (continuous, not quarterly)
  • Auditor liaison through Type I and Type II windows
  • Year-two surveillance and controls uplift
04 / CERTIFICATION International

ISO 27001:2022

Information Security Management System

The international standard regulated clients and procurement teams increasingly expect. Full ISMS implementation, Statement of Applicability, risk treatment, and the paper trail that holds up under certification audit.

What we do

  • ISMS scope definition and context analysis
  • Risk assessment and treatment plan
  • Annex A controls implementation (all 93)
  • Internal audit program and management review
  • Certification body selection and audit prep
Also covered

Secondary and sector-specific frameworks.

If you operate in a regulated sector, the big four above are often not enough. We routinely overlay these.

FEDERAL FI

OSFI B-13

Technology and cyber risk guideline for federally regulated financial institutions.

PROVINCIAL

Alberta PIPA & BC PIPA

Provincial private-sector privacy acts applied to Alberta and British Columbia operations.

HEALTH

PHIPA (Ontario)

Personal Health Information Protection Act. Required for custodians of health information.

CROSS-BORDER

HIPAA-aligned controls

For Canadian businesses handling US patient data or supporting US healthcare clients.

NEW · LIMITED COHORT

The Compliance Accelerator. Six weeks. One readiness pack.

A structured six-week engagement that takes your organisation from "we think we are compliant" to "here is the evidence pack a Big Four auditor would accept." Fixed scope. Fixed fee. Named practitioner start to finish.

Fixed timelineSix weeks start to finish, standing weekly reviews
Fixed feeScoped on day one, no change-order theatre
Evidence packAudit-ready deliverable, not a slide deck
Framework-flexPIPEDA + Law 25, or SOC 2, or ISO 27001
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How we work

Three phases, one standing team.

Compliance is not a one-time project. We structure engagements so the controls stay operational long after the auditor has signed off.

01

Assess

We map your current state against the framework you need, identify every gap, and quantify effort. Deliverable is a readable plan, not a 100-page document nobody reads.

  • Scope definition
  • Gap analysis
  • Risk register
  • Prioritised roadmap
02

Implement

Controls go in, policies get written, training is run, and evidence collection is wired to systems rather than left to spreadsheets. The person who scoped the work does the work.

  • Policy drafting
  • Control implementation
  • Evidence automation
  • Team training
03

Maintain

Monthly standing reviews, continuous evidence collection, surveillance audit prep, and change management as your systems evolve. Compliance stays current without an annual fire drill.

  • Monthly control reviews
  • Continuous evidence collection
  • Surveillance audit prep
  • Change management
Team credentials

Who signs off on the work.

The practitioners on your engagement hold the certifications your auditor and procurement team will ask about.

CISA

Certified Information Systems Auditor. ISACA

ISO 27001 Lead Implementer

Full ISMS implementation and audit experience

PIPEDA & Law 25

Working knowledge of Canadian and Quebec privacy regimes

SOC 2 readiness

Experience preparing Canadian clients for Type I and Type II

Procurement questions

What your legal and risk teams always ask.

The five questions we get in nearly every compliance engagement. Answered straight.

Do you perform the audits yourselves, or do we still need a third-party auditor?
We prepare you for third-party audits. We are not an audit firm, and that separation is intentional, because the AICPA and ISO scheme require independence between the implementer and the auditor. Our role is to get your controls, evidence, and documentation to a state where the auditor's job is straightforward.
How long does a typical SOC 2 or ISO 27001 engagement take?
Typical Type I readiness runs three to five months depending on current maturity. Type II requires an additional three-to-twelve-month observation window. ISO 27001 first-time certification usually runs six to nine months end to end. The six-week Compliance Accelerator is for organisations wanting a defensible readiness pack quickly, not full certification.
Who holds the risk if an audit finding is material?
Legal and operational accountability for compliance always sits with your organisation, and no vendor can carry that. What we provide is competent implementation, documented decisions, and the evidence that the controls were operating as designed. If a finding is material, we remediate at our cost when the gap is attributable to our implementation.
Can you work alongside our existing internal audit, GRC, or legal team?
Yes, and this is often how engagements run. We integrate with your existing GRC tooling (Vanta, Drata, Secureframe, ServiceNow GRC, or spreadsheets), work with your internal auditor on evidence review, and brief your legal counsel on anything with regulatory exposure. We do not require you to adopt our tools.
What happens after certification, do you walk away?
No. Compliance that lapses is compliance that costs more to rebuild than to maintain. Standard engagements continue into a monthly maintenance phase: control reviews, evidence collection, surveillance audit prep, and change management as your systems evolve. The team that implemented is the team that maintains.
NEXT STEP

Thirty minutes with a practitioner. No deck.

Tell us the framework you are working toward, the deadline, and what has already been attempted. We will say honestly whether we can help and roughly what it would take.

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