.svg)
CybersecurityIncidentIncident ResponseAI
Ali Aleali
Co-Founder & Principal Consultant, CISSP, CCSP
Former security architect for Bank of Canada and Payments Canada. 20+ years building compliance programs for critical infrastructure. Ali leads Truvo's SOC 2, ISO 27001, and CMMC engagements, bringing enterprise-grade security architecture to growing companies.
Follow on LinkedIn →
How to Use AI for Incident Response: Lessons Learned From a Real Engagement
We recently used frontier AI throughout an incident response engagement, from the first log query to the final incident report. This is how it went,...
Top ISO 42001 Consultants in Canada (2026): A Buyer's Guide
Truvo Cyber is a Canadian cybersecurity firm that implements ISO/IEC 42001, the AI management system standard, for SaaS and technology companies...
SOC 2 Audit Firms in Canada (2026): How to Choose a SOC 2 Auditor
A SOC 2 report must be issued by a licensed CPA firm, and Canadian companies can choose either a Canadian firm reporting under CSAE 3000 or a US firm...
Top CPCSC Consultants in Canada (2026): A Buyer's Guide
Truvo Cyber is a Canadian cybersecurity firm that prepares defence suppliers for the Canadian Program for Cyber Security Certification (CPCSC):...
Top ISO 27001 Consultants in Canada (2026): A Buyer's Guide
Truvo Cyber is a Canadian cybersecurity firm that implements ISO 27001 for SaaS, technology and infrastructure companies: gap assessment, ISMS build,...
SOC 2 vs HIPAA: What Overlaps and What HIPAA Adds
SOC 2 and HIPAA test most of the same security controls, so a company that handles health data for healthcare customers can run one security program...
Phishing-Resistant MFA in Microsoft Entra ID: Rolling Out Passkeys to Thousands of Users
Phishing-resistant MFA in Microsoft Entra ID means signing in with a passkey, Windows Hello for Business or certificate-based authentication, methods...
Microsoft Identity Manager End of Life: The 2029 Date and the Move to Entra ID
Microsoft Identity Manager (MIM) 2016 SP2 reaches end of support on January 9, 2029. Microsoft extended the date from January 13, 2026, and its...
Active Directory to Entra ID Migration: A Phased Plan to Retire On-Premises Domain Controllers
An Active Directory to Entra ID migration moves the source of authority for users, groups, devices and applications from on-premises domain...
HR-Driven Provisioning in Microsoft Entra ID: Workday, SuccessFactors, Dayforce and Other HR Systems
HR-driven provisioning makes the HR system the source of truth for identity: a hire in the HR platform creates the account, a change of role updates...
How to Check for PHP2Shell (CVE-2026-109618): Free PHP2Shell Checker
The fastest way to check a site for PHP2Shell is to run the free PHP2Shell checker, which reads the PHP version the site advertises and compares it...
Railway Security Incident (October 2026): What to Do, and What SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR and HIPAA Require
On October 21, 2026, Railway disclosed that an unauthorized third party may have accessed the encrypted environment variables of its customers and,...
PHP2Shell (CVE-2026-109618, CVE-2026-109619): What to Do, and When It Becomes an Incident
PHP2Shell is two critical flaws in the PHP engine, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, that allow remote code execution without a login on PHP web...
Agentic AI Security Architecture: How to Let AI Agents Do Real Work Safely
Agentic AI security architecture starts with a map of the components of an AI agent system and the connections between them, which sets the scope,...
SOC 2 for Self-Hosted Automation: n8n, Airflow, AWX, Jenkins, and Self-Hosted Runners
Self-hosted automation platforms meet SOC 2 the same way any other in-scope system does: the platform goes into scope, and the company shows access...
The Security Questionnaire Process: Owners, Workflow, Submission Package and Trust Center
A security questionnaire process is the repeatable way a company receives, answers, packages and follows up on the security reviews its customers...
SOC 2 Processing Integrity for Compute and AI Infrastructure Providers
SOC 2 processing integrity is the optional Trust Services Category (criteria PI1.1 to PI1.5) that tests whether a system processes data completely,...
SOC 2 Availability Without a Second Data Center: Meeting A1 on a Single Site
SOC 2 availability asks a company to meet the availability commitments it makes to customers, and the criteria (A1.1, A1.2 and A1.3) name no second...
Can You Leave an Internal Team Out of SOC 2 Scope? Dev Servers, CI/CD, and the Carve-Out Question
SOC 2 scope can leave out development and test servers, but it includes the source code repository, the CI/CD pipeline and any internal team whose...
Five Things That Slow Down On-Prem SOC 2 Audit Preparation, and How to Start Now
SOC 2 audit preparation on on-prem infrastructure slows down in five places: infrastructure scanning and logging, application and container scanning,...
Vanta and Drata for On-Prem SOC 2: What the Platform Automates and Who Collects the Rest
Vanta and Drata work for an on-prem SOC 2 program, and they automate the corporate half of it: identity, HR records, code review, endpoints,...
Datadog and SOC 2: Which Controls Datadog Covers and What Still Needs a Program
Datadog can supply SOC 2 evidence for vulnerability identification (CC7.1), security monitoring (CC7.2), alert evaluation (CC7.3), unauthorized or...
Hybrid Cloud Security Monitoring with Datadog: What Covers On-Premises Servers
Hybrid cloud security monitoring applies the same detection, vulnerability scanning, and configuration checks to on-premises servers as to cloud...
Is Datadog a SIEM? How Datadog Cloud SIEM Handles SOC 2 Logging and Monitoring
Yes. Datadog Cloud SIEM is Datadog's security information and event management (SIEM) product. It applies threat detection rules to the logs already...
Datadog Cloud Security Management: Vulnerability and Misconfiguration Scanning for SOC 2 and ISO 27001
Datadog Cloud Security Management checks hosts, containers, and cloud accounts for software vulnerabilities and insecure settings. It uses the same...
IEC 62443 Explained: 4-1, 4-2, 3-3, Security Levels and Certification for Product Companies
IEC 62443 is a series of international standards, developed by the IEC and ISA, for securing industrial automation and control systems (IACS). A...
EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA): What It Is, Timeline and Requirements for Hardware and Software Makers
The EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), Regulation (EU) 2024/2847, is an EU law that sets mandatory cybersecurity requirements for hardware and software...
SOC 2, ISO 27001 and HIPAA for Infrastructure Providers: One Program, Three Outputs
An infrastructure provider can meet SOC 2, ISO 27001 and HIPAA with one security program, because all three test the same capabilities: risk...
On-Prem SOC 2 Cost and Timeline: What Changes When You Run Your Own Hardware
On-prem SOC 2 costs more than a cloud SOC 2 mainly in readiness: in Truvo Cyber engagements, a readiness assessment for a cloud SMB of up to 100...
SOC 2 for Chip Startups: Design IP, EDA Environments, Foundries and Compute Services
SOC 2 for a semiconductor company covers the service customers buy, such as hosted compute, an API, SDK delivery and the customer data behind them,...