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Quebec Law 25 Compliance: The Privacy Law Every SaaS Company Should Know About (But Probably Doesn't)
Quebec Law 25 is the province's modernized private-sector privacy law: a set of amendments (adopted in 2021 as Bill 64) to the Act respecting the ...
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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,...
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...
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.
Here is...
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...
SOC 2 Backup and Disaster Recovery for On-Premise Infrastructure
Cloud disaster recovery is a region failover. Click a button, spin up infrastructure in another availability zone, and the platform handles...
SOC 2 Access Control for On-Premise and Bare Metal Environments
In cloud environments, access control is a managed service. AWS IAM provides centralized identity, Okta handles SSO across every SaaS tool, and the...
SOC 2 Vulnerability Scanning for On-Prem Servers
Every SOC 2 vulnerability scanning guide assumes the same starting point: connect a cloud-native scanner, enable automated assessments, and let the...
SOC 2 Readiness for Bare Metal SaaS: What to Expect
A pattern keeps showing up. A SaaS company that has been running successfully for years, sometimes a decade or more, gets a call from a major...
The SOC 2 Snowball: How Law 25 Pushes Compliance Down Supply Chains
SOC 2, and compliance in general, is self-perpetuating. Once a company achieves certification, one of the first things the framework requires is...
Why We Recommend SOC 2 Type 1 (Even Though You Don't Need It)
Most companies skip straight to Type 2. It's the *real* SOC 2, right? Type 1 is just not worth it. We used to think that way too. We've changed our...
SOC 2 Ticketing & SLAs: Vulnerability Patching & Incident Response
TL;DR: SOC 2 compliance requires a formal, trackable process for all security-relevant activities. Under the Trust Services Criteria, this means...
SOC 2 Compliance Roadmap: From Gap Assessment to Audit-Ready
Every SOC 2 roadmap on the internet reads the same way: pick a platform, connect your integrations, run the gap analysis, remediate, audit. Five...
SOC 2 Automation: What Vanta & Drata Don't Cover
Six months after buying Drata, Vanta, Secureframe, or any other compliance automation platform, a company realizes the dashboard is half-populated,...
