Cyber Security Ottawa

Search cyber security ottawa and you'll mostly find a college programme, a federal agency and a job board. This page isn't any of those. It's cyber security for Ottawa organisations that have to prove something to somebody: an assessment, the controls, the monitoring, and evidence that maps to ITSG-33 rather than to a vendor's dashboard. CCIE-led, covering the NCR remotely, and no Ottawa office. If you're looking for a course or a job, we'll point you somewhere better.

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The short answer

What does cyber security in Ottawa actually cover?

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The same three jobs as anywhere, with a fourth bolted on. Find out what you've got, fix what's exposed, then watch it. The fourth is proving it, and in Ottawa that's the one that gets you through a procurement. An assessment that names which ITSG-33 controls your estate touches, a remediation plan with change windows attached, monitoring somebody actually reads overnight, and an incident process with a reporting clock in it. Ottawa-Gatineau holds more than 100 cyber security companies. Very few of them will show you the control mapping before you sign.

How we cover Ottawa

No Ottawa office. Our engineers work out of North York and travel for what needs hands. Detection and response were never going to be a drive-time question anyway, because an attacker doesn't wait for a site visit. What the distance genuinely costs you is speed on the physical half: the assessment walk, segmentation work, and the incident where somebody has to pull a cable. We book and quote that rather than pretending it's free.

What the distance does change

  • The assessment walk, where the undocumented device turns up
  • Segmentation work that has to happen at the rack
  • An incident where something has to be physically isolated
  • The tabletop exercise, which works better in a room

What the distance does not change

  • Monitoring, detection and the overnight alert
  • Identity and access reviews, patching, endpoint and email controls
  • ITSG-33 control mapping, kept current rather than rebuilt for an assessment
  • The incident process, its reporting clock and its rehearsal

Assessment and exercise visits are booked against your change window, and we quote the travel.

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Who you get

Who does the work

One principal architect owns the assessment and the design. In security the tool is the least interesting part of the answer. What matters is whether the person who wrote your segmentation plan is reachable the night somebody tests it.

The work

What we take over

  1. What you have now:

    A penetration test report from two years ago, findings still open

    What the engagement leaves:

    An assessment that separates what's exposed from what's merely untidy

  2. What you have now:

    A flat network, because segmenting it was always next quarter

    What the engagement leaves:

    A segmentation design, and the change windows to land it in

  3. What you have now:

    Control mapping rebuilt from memory the week before an assessment

    What the engagement leaves:

    Control mapping kept current against what's actually deployed

  4. What you have now:

    An alert console nobody has tuned, so nobody reads it

    What the engagement leaves:

    A tuned alert set, where an overnight page means something is wrong

  5. What you have now:

    An incident plan that names somebody who left

    What the engagement leaves:

    An incident process with a named path, a reporting clock and a rehearsal behind it

This is the shape of an Ottawa security engagement, not a single client.

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What do you need from Cyber Security Services?

Tell us who you are and what you're working on. A senior engineer reads your message before replying, so the first answer is a real read on scope, risk and timing, within an hour, 24/7. Nothing here is a commitment, and we'll tell you plainly if we're not the right fit.

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What happens next

  1. A senior engineer replies within an hour, 24/7, never an SDR.
  2. We book a 30-minute call to listen, sketch options, and flag risks.
  3. You get a scoped statement of work within 3 business days.

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Questions

Questions about Cyber Security

An assessment of what you run and where it's exposed, then the controls: segmentation, identity and access, endpoint, email, patching and recoverable backups. Then monitoring and a rehearsed incident process. For federal-adjacent work we map the whole thing to ITSG-33 as we go, so the evidence exists before somebody asks rather than being assembled the week before.

Ask this of everyone and get it in writing. Screening is granted by Public Services and Procurement Canada, not claimed by a supplier, and the organisation has to be screened before any individual can be. Tell us what your contract requires and we'll say plainly what we hold today, what we'd need to obtain and roughly how long that takes, including when the honest answer is that we're not the right supplier for that piece of work.

Not on this side of the business. Ottawa is unusually well served here, and if you want to study cyber security a college programme will do more for you than we will. If you mean security awareness training for your staff, that's different and we run it as part of a programme, because a phishing simulation with no follow-up is theatre.

Yes, and we'll tell you when you don't need one. A test against a flat network with open findings from the last one is an expensive way to confirm what you already know. If the assessment says the basics aren't in place, fix those first and test after.

Contain, preserve, then report on whatever clock applies to you. Containment and evidence preservation come before cleanup, because cleaning first destroys what you need to establish scope. The reporting clock is what people get wrong, and it differs by who you are, so we agree who makes those calls before anything happens rather than during.

We say so deliberately. Detection and response are remote by nature. What the distance affects is the assessment walk, segmentation at the rack and the tabletop exercise, all of which we book and quote. If your requirement is genuinely somebody in the building within the hour, a local firm will serve you better and we'll say so on the call.

Yes. Kanata, Nepean, Orleans, Barrhaven and across the river into Gatineau. A Gatineau address adds a Quebec privacy dimension worth raising at the start rather than discovering at an audit.

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