Cyber Security Services in Canada
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Which of these is costing you right now?
Four of the reasons Canadian mid-market teams call us. If one of these is yours, the page below says which piece of work fixes it.
Nobody can say who still has admin rights
Standing privilege from a project three years ago, a departed contractor's account, a shared credential in a document. Every breach report we read starts near here.
A phishing email got through and a user told you first
That's the control failing and the detection failing in the same event. It usually means the email path and the identity layer were never treated as one problem.
You bought the tools and nobody's watching them
A detection console with thousands of unreviewed alerts is not detection. It's a licence with a dashboard, and it's the most common thing we're asked to fix.
A client questionnaire is holding up a contract
Enterprise procurement asks for evidence. One unanswerable question in a security review can stall a signed deal for a quarter.
Pick the piece you need, or the whole programme.
Every one of our cyber security services, with what it covers and who it's for.
- Managed Security Services (MSSP)A Canadian managed security service provider that agrees what it can do at 3am before go-live.
- Penetration TestingCanadian penetration testing services with written scope, reproducible findings, and a retest after you fix.
- Network SecurityCanadian network security services built by CCIEs, with segmentation, access control and firewall policy actually enforced.
- Security Awareness TrainingCanadian security awareness training run as a programme, with phishing simulation, coaching, and an auditor-ready record.
- Threat Risk Assessment (TRA)Canadian threat risk assessment mapped to the federal control catalogue that took effect in March 2026.
- Identity and Access ManagementCanadian identity and access management built on the platform you already own, with joiners and leavers handled.
- Vulnerability ManagementCanadian vulnerability management that ranks by real exploitation, then tracks every finding to closed.
What cyber security services actually cover.
Three groups of work. Buy one, buy the set, or have us assess which you're short on before you spend anything. Information security services, managed cybersecurity services, cyber security solutions, enterprise security services: four names for the same three groups, and the name on the quote tells you nothing about the scope.
Identity and access
Who can reach what, proven rather than assumed. Conditional access, privileged account control, single sign-on, and the email path most breaches still start with. This is the group that changes your risk fastest, and it's the one most often left until after a tool purchase.
Detection and response
Somebody reading the alerts, and a plan for the hour after one is real. Endpoint and network telemetry, tuned rules rather than defaults, and a response runbook your own people have rehearsed. Tooling without an owner is the most common thing we're asked to fix.
Testing and assurance
Finding the gaps before an attacker or an auditor does. Penetration testing, vulnerability management, threat and risk assessment, and training that changes behaviour instead of ticking a box. This is the group that turns a security posture into something you can show a client.
Does Cyber Security Services work the same way in every industry?
No. The Cyber Security Services work is the same craft in every sector, but the conditions around it are not. In financial services that means OSFI's technology and cyber risk rules; in government, Protected A, B and C data handling; and in defence and aerospace, controlled goods rules, CMMC and the flow-down from your prime. We keep the service and change the part that bends.
OSFI's technology and cyber risk rules set what an examiner will ask to see.
OSFI B-13. Technology and cyber risk across three domains: governance, technology operations and resilience, and cyber security. It binds federally regulated institutions, and only those.
Protected A, B and C data handling decides where the work can run and who can touch it.
Protected A, B and C. Each level changes where the data can physically live, who can reach it, and what you have to prove about both. Most files turn on Protected B, and most disagreements turn on what counts as reaching it.
Controlled goods rules, CMMC and the flow-down from your prime set what a supplier can do.
ITAR and the Controlled Goods Program. Registration under the Defence Production Act is mandatory before anyone examines, possesses or transfers controlled goods in Canada. Technical data counts, so a drawing sitting on a laptop is in scope.
Health information sits under provincial privacy law, and your IT provider is usually the custodian's agent.
PHIPA. Ontario's health privacy act, with its own definition of a custodian and its own duties for the agents acting on a custodian's behalf. Your IT provider is usually an agent.
Solicitor-client privilege decides how a firm can handle its data.
Law Society obligations. Confidentiality and competence duties reach the technology you practise with, and the vendors who touch client information. The firm is expected to have assessed the provider, which means the provider should arrive with the answers.
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Request a consultHow a cyber security services engagement runs.
Four stages. You can stop after the first one and take the findings elsewhere, and some clients do.
Engagement phases
Phases 01 to 04
Assess
We map what you have against a framework you already answer to, and we say which gaps matter. You get the findings and the sequence, written so a board can read it.
Close the gaps that matter
Identity first, then detection, then the rest in the order the assessment set. A principal engineer does the work and stays reachable while it lands.
Operate, or hand over
We run the parts you'd rather not staff, or we document and train your team and step back. Both are real endings and we'll tell you which one fits.
Prove it
Evidence packaged for the audience that asks: an auditor, an insurer, or a client's security questionnaire. Produced from the running controls, not written up afterwards.
It's never the product
Where Canadian mid-market security programmes actually break.
I run this practice, so I'll be direct about the two failures I see most, because neither is a product problem and both are expensive to unwind.
Tools without an owner
A team buys endpoint detection, turns it on, and nobody is named as the person who reads it. Six months later the console has thousands of unreviewed alerts and the default rules are still in place, so the real signal is buried in noise the vendor shipped. The fix is boring and it works: tune the rules to your estate, name the owner, and rehearse the response before you need it. If you don't want to staff that, it's the part to have run for you.
Buying in the wrong order
Identity is the control with the largest effect on your risk and it's routinely done last, because it touches every user and nobody wants that conversation. Meanwhile the perimeter gets another appliance. Get conditional access, privileged account control and the email path right first, and a good deal of what the next product was going to protect you from stops being reachable. That sequencing is most of what an assessment is for.
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.
Your request
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- Cyber Security Services
What happens next
- A senior engineer replies within an hour, 24/7, never an SDR.
- We book a 30-minute call to listen, sketch options, and flag risks.
- You get a scoped statement of work within 3 business days.
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+1 514-465-1584Cyber security services in Canada, answered plainly.
The six questions we get asked before every engagement.
Regulated sectors, and where to read next
These disciplines share the same senior team and tend to land together. Follow the thread to the next one.
