Cybersecurity and Compliance for Canadian Business
You know your business handles personal data, and you know a breach or a failed audit would hurt. What is harder to see is where you actually stand today, what a cyber-insurance form is really asking, and how to prove your safeguards to a regulator or a customer's procurement team. That gap is where most small and mid-sized organizations get stuck. Itsultant provides cybersecurity and PIPEDA/PHIPA compliance for Canadian business that starts with a plain assessment of your risk and ends with documentation you can hand to an auditor or an insurer.
We combine hands-on security work with compliance mapping so the two are not separate projects. You get monitoring that watches for threats, an incident response plan for when something goes wrong, staff training so your people stop being the easy way in, and regular audits that keep everything current. Underneath, your controls are mapped to PIPEDA and Ontario's PHIPA, and the security work is aligned to the CIS Controls and the NIST Cybersecurity Framework.
We are Canadian-owned and work remotely across the country. Pricing starts with a free, no-obligation assessment, then a quote scoped to your size, your data, and the obligations you actually carry. Nothing here is off-the-shelf licensing you pay for per seat and never fully use.
What is included
What you get with Cybersecurity & Compliance
Risk assessment
We review your systems, data flows, and current safeguards to find where personal and health information is exposed, then rank the gaps by how much damage each one could cause.
Continuous monitoring
We deploy Wazuh for security monitoring and log analysis, Suricata for network intrusion detection, and OpenVAS for vulnerability scanning, so threats and weak spots surface early instead of during an incident.
Incident response plan
You get a written, tested plan that spells out who does what when data is exposed, including the breach-notification steps PIPEDA and PHIPA expect, so nobody is improvising under pressure.
Employee security-awareness training
We train your staff to recognize phishing, handle personal and health data correctly, and follow safe practices, because most breaches start with a person, not a firewall.
Controls mapped to PIPEDA and PHIPA
We map your safeguards to Canada's federal PIPEDA and Ontario's PHIPA and align them to the CIS Controls and the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, so the same work satisfies your privacy obligations and a recognized security standard.
Regular audits
On a set schedule we recheck controls, rescan for new vulnerabilities, and confirm your documentation still matches how the business actually runs, so compliance does not quietly drift out of date.
Evidence pack
We assemble your mapped controls, documented policies, and monitoring records into one package built for regulator audits and cyber-insurance questionnaires, so you can answer those questions with proof instead of guesses.
Why open source
Why we build this on open source
The core of our security stack is open source: Wazuh for monitoring and log analysis, OpenVAS for vulnerability scanning, and Suricata for network intrusion detection. These are the same categories of tools large enterprises rely on, without a per-seat licence bill that grows every time you add staff. For a small business or non-profit, that changes the math: you can afford real, continuous monitoring rather than a once-a-year scan. Being honest, the licence is the cheap part. The real cost is the expertise to configure these tools for your environment, tune out the noise, and act on what they find. That configuration and ongoing support is what we provide, and it is where the value sits.
How it works
Getting started
Free assessment
We start with a no-obligation review of your systems and the personal or health data you handle, then explain in plain terms where your risk and compliance gaps are.
Scoped quote and plan
Based on what we find, you get a quote and a prioritized plan matched to your size and obligations. We tackle the highest-risk gaps first rather than everything at once.
Implement and document
We deploy monitoring, set up incident response, train your staff, and map every control to PIPEDA, PHIPA, the CIS Controls, and NIST CSF, documenting as we go so the evidence pack builds itself.
Audit and maintain
With managed support we keep watch for a predictable monthly fee, run regular audits, and keep your evidence pack current. Managed clients get a target one-hour response during business hours, Monday to Friday, 9 to 6 EST.
FAQ
Questions about Cybersecurity & Compliance
Does PIPEDA or PHIPA require us to store our data in Canada?
No. Canadian federal law does not require private-sector commercial data to be kept in Canada. PIPEDA allows data to be transferred across borders as long as it gets comparable protection, and your organization stays accountable for it. Keeping data on Canadian infrastructure is a real option we can set up, and it often helps with customer trust and procurement, but we will not tell you it is a blanket legal requirement, because it is not.
Is Itsultant certified in CIS Controls or NIST?
We align your security work to the CIS Controls and the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, and we map your controls to PIPEDA and PHIPA. These are frameworks we align to, not certifications we hold or issue. What you receive is your own evidence pack showing how your safeguards line up with those frameworks and laws, which is what auditors and insurers actually ask to see.
What is the evidence pack, and why does it matter?
It is a single package of your mapped controls, documented policies, and monitoring records, organized for regulator audits and cyber-insurance questionnaires. When an insurer asks whether you have monitoring, an incident response plan, and staff training in place, you answer with documented proof instead of a best guess, which tends to make those conversations shorter and the coverage easier to get.
We are a small non-profit. Is this affordable for us?
It is built to be. We work with non-profits, and the open-source tools at the core of our stack remove the per-seat licence fees that make enterprise security expensive. Pricing starts with a free assessment and a quote scoped to your actual size and data, and managed support is a predictable monthly fee rather than a surprise bill.