Cybersecurity Company in Toronto

Toronto security engagements are scoped by the surface under test: a scoped Toronto application security assessment (web plus API plus a single mobile platform, OWASP ASVS Level 2, manual plus tooled), a cloud security engineering engagement on AWS ca-central-1 or Azure Canada Central, with CIS Benchmark hardening, CCCS Medium Cloud Profile mapping, and detection engineering, or a full OSFI B-13 readiness program for a federally regulated client (gap assessment, remediation engineering, evidence packaging, internal audit dry run). Toronto rates sit above Calgary and Edmonton because of the Big Five and Citizen Lab talent gravity. We quote fixed-fee in CAD.

OSFI Guideline B-13 (Technology and Cyber Risk Management), effective September 2024 for federally regulated financial institutions, sets expectations across five domains: governance and risk management, technology operations and resilience, technology asset management, cyber security, and third-party technology and cyber risk. It expects board-approved risk appetite for technology and cyber, an inventory of technology assets keyed to criticality, a cyber control framework mapped to a recognised baseline (CIS, NIST CSF, ISO 27001 are common choices), demonstrable incident response capability, and third-party risk evidence aligned with OSFI B-10. We deliver a B-13 control matrix, a remediation roadmap sequenced by OSFI examination cycle, and the evidence repository internal audit and OSFI examiners will request. For provincially regulated trust and loan companies, FSRA expectations are similar but lighter.

Ontario's Bill 194, the Strengthening Cyber Security and Building Trust in the Public Sector Act 2024, applies to provincial ministries, agencies, school boards, children's aid societies, and elements of the broader MUSH sector (Municipalities, Universities, Schools, Hospitals). It requires cyber security programs, incident reporting to the responsible minister, and accountability documentation. Our Bill 194 engagements produce a program-level cyber framework mapped to the regulation's expectations, an incident-reporting workflow that triggers minister notification inside the statutory window, third-party and AI risk overlays where Bill 194's AI provisions apply, and a procurement evidence pack that Ontario's Cyber Security Centre of Excellence and Treasury Board Secretariat will recognise. We coordinate with Ontario Digital Service patterns where they apply to the client.

Yes. The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto's Munk School publishes the most authoritative open research on state-sponsored cyber threats targeting Canadian civil society, journalists, NGOs, telecommunications providers, and critical infrastructure, including ongoing work on Pegasus, Predator, and APT campaigns originating from state actors targeting Canadian organisations. We incorporate published Citizen Lab indicators and TTPs into our threat models for Toronto clients in journalism, civil society, advocacy, telecommunications, energy, and government, and we sequence detection engineering against the campaigns most relevant to each client's threat profile. We do not claim affiliation with Citizen Lab; we read what they publish and build accordingly, the same way the rest of the responsible Canadian cyber industry does.

Yes. We build and tune detections inside Splunk Canada (the deployment of choice across RBC, TD, and Scotiabank security analytics platforms), Microsoft Sentinel for clients standardised on Azure Canada Central, and Elastic Security for cost-sensitive scaleups. Detection content ships as Sigma rules version-controlled in Git, mapped to MITRE ATT&CK techniques, and validated against the bank's historic incident corpus before promotion. We integrate threat intelligence feeds from CCCS bulletins, Mandiant, CrowdStrike Falcon Intelligence, and open-source Canadian-relevant feeds, and we tune false-positive rates against the analyst headcount the SOC actually runs. Run-books map to OSFI E-21 operational resilience expectations and feed the bank's existing GRC and case management systems (ServiceNow SecOps is the most common).

Ontario's Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA), enforced by Ontario's Information and Privacy Commissioner (IPC), governs health information custodians including hospitals, clinics, long-term care, and digital health platforms. PHIPA cybersecurity work requires audit logging of every PHI access and disclosure, breach notification to IPC within statutory windows, role-based access control mapped to least privilege, and Privacy Impact Assessments using IPC-published templates. We deploy PHI workloads to AWS ca-central-1, Azure Canada Central, or GCP northamerica-northeast2 with documented data residency, build PHIPA-compliant logging into application code rather than bolting it on later, and produce the PIA and Threat Risk Assessment packages Ontario Health and University Health Network procurement teams require for vendor onboarding.

We deliver incident response in three tiers. First, a tabletop exercise program that walks executive, legal, communications, and technical teams through realistic scenarios drawn from Canadian threat reporting including CCCS advisories and Citizen Lab disclosures. Second, IR readiness engineering that builds the run-books, communication trees, evidence collection procedures, and ServiceNow or Jira workflows the team will execute under pressure, with explicit OSFI B-13 incident reporting timelines where applicable. Third, a retained IR capability with on-call response from our Edmonton and Chandigarh benches and a coordination protocol with the client's outside counsel, cyber insurer (typically Beazley, Coalition, or AXIS Canada), and CCCS where federal notification is in scope. Forensic-grade work is partnered with Canadian licensed investigators.

Some cybersecurity engineering qualifies for the Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) program (35 percent refundable for Canadian-controlled private corporations on eligible R&D up to the $3M expenditure limit). Eligible activity typically includes novel detection engineering against threats with no established signatures, applied research into ML-based anomaly detection, cryptographic protocol engineering with genuine technical uncertainty, and original adversary emulation tooling. Routine SOC operations, vendor product deployment, compliance documentation, and standard control implementation are generally not eligible. We track time, document technical hypotheses and failed approaches, and hand the resulting narrative to your SR&ED consultant for T661 filing. Ontario fintechs and healthtechs can sometimes stack the Ontario Interactive Digital Media Tax Credit on eligible portions. Final eligibility sits with your SR&ED consultant and CRA.