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Cybersecurity
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.
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Operationalizing Security Policies: From PDF to Practice
The moment that usually exposes a security program is not the audit. It is a simple question asked in a meeting.
"Who actually reviews user access...
GRC Platform Managed Services: What You Actually Get
A company subscribes to a GRC platform. A consultant configures it, loads policies, maps controls, connects integrations. The dashboard turns green....
Compliance Consulting vs GRC Platform: You Need Both
A GRC platform such as Vanta or Drata automates evidence collection, roughly 60 to 70 percent of the compliance workload for a cloud-native SaaS...
CMMC Compliance Consulting for Canadian Defence Contractors
Canadian companies selling into the U.S. defence supply chain face a compliance requirement that is no longer theoretical. The Cybersecurity Maturity...
CPCSC Level 1 vs Level 2: The Cost Cliff Suppliers Miss
Canadian defence-adjacent suppliers keep running into the same pattern. A team clears CPCSC Level 1 in a few weeks, files self-attestation in Canada...
CPCSC Level 1 Scoping Before You Have a Contract
DND has been clear about direction and quiet about timing. Canada Buys is collecting expressions of interest, industry days are running, and the...
CPCSC Level 1 Self-Assessment: What Apr 14 Actually Requires
On April 14, 2026, the Government of Canada published the CPCSC Level 1 self-assessment guide, the scoping guide, and practical implementation steps....
SOC 2 Vendor Management: Data Center as Subservice
TL;DR
- When your data center is operated by another organization (a colocation or hosting provider), that organization is a subservice organization...
SOC 2 Change Management with Tickets Instead of CI/CD
TL;DR
- Change management maps to CC8.1, which has 14 Points of Focus covering authorization, design, testing, approval, deployment, segregation of...
SOC 2 Secure Development with Self-Hosted GitLab
TL;DR
- The same Trust Services Criterion that governs infrastructure changes governs code changes: CC8.1, change management
- Self-hosted GitLab is the...
Consulting as Code: Running Cybersecurity on GitHub
For years, programmers had an unfair advantage over the rest of us.
Not because they could build software. Because they could access data. Rich,...
The Real Cost of DIY Compliance vs. Hiring a Consultant
On paper, DIY compliance looks straightforward. Subscribe to a GRC platform, follow the control library, collect evidence, engage an auditor. The...
SOC 2 Consultants for On-Prem and Hybrid Infrastructure
Most SOC 2 consultants know AWS. Some know Azure and GCP. Very few know what to do when your stack includes a colocation facility, a bare-metal fleet...
ISO 42001 Certification Cost: What You'll Pay in 2026
If you are an AI SaaS company looking at ISO 42001, the first question is not what does the standard say. It is what is this going to cost us in...
SOC 2 in 90 Days: What That Timeline Actually Requires
Ninety days from kickoff to a SOC 2 readiness is achievable. It is not achievable for every company, and the companies that hit it make deliberate...
SOC 2 for Professional Services Firms: The Scoping Problem Nobody Warns You About
A professional services firm starts its SOC 2 process the same way most companies do. An enterprise client puts it in an RFP. The team subscribes to...
Fractional CISO for SaaS Companies: What the Role Actually Looks Like
Security leadership at most SaaS companies follows a predictable pattern. The CTO handles it. Not because they volunteered, but because nobody else...
CPCSC Compliance Consulting for Defence Contractors
CPCSC Level 1 attestation becomes a procurement requirement for Department of National Defence contracts in April 2026. Companies that can't attest...
What Does a SOC 2 Readiness Assessment Actually Include?
A SOC 2 readiness assessment is not the audit. It is the diagnostic step that tells a company exactly where it stands before committing budget and...
ISO 27001 Consultant in Canada: When It Makes Sense and What It Actually Takes
ISO 27001 certification gives you a one-to-two-page certificate. SOC 2 gives you a 40-to-50-page report describing every control, how it was tested,...
SOC 2 Implementation Cost and Timeline: What to Actually Budget
SOC 2 has four cost components. Most companies only budget for two of them, then get surprised by the rest halfway through the engagement.
Published...
How to Choose a SOC 2 Consultant: A Checklist for SaaS Companies
The Two Types of SOC 2 Consultants
Platform-first firms compress the engagement into days or a few weeks. They take a policy template library, swap...
What Project Glasswing Actually Means for Your Security Program
I have been thinking about what Anthropic's Project Glasswing announcement actually means for the clients we advise. The honest answer is that it...
Risk Assessment and Security Planning for ITSP.10.171
The majority of ITSP.10.171 control families deal with operational security: how you configure systems, manage access, protect data. The Risk...