Top SOC 2 Consultants in Canada (2026): A Buyer's Guide

The SOC 2 consulting firms active in Canada in 2026 include Truvo Cyber, ISA Cybersecurity, Canadian Cyber, Elastify, and the Big 4 (Deloitte, KPMG, PwC, EY). Prescient Assurance and MHM Professional Corporation are CPA firms that perform the audit itself.

Typical first-year pricing:

• Specialist boutiques: CAD$15K to $40K for a readiness assessment
• Full-service consultancies: CAD$40K to $85K for a first-year program
• Big 4: from about CAD$80K
• Audit fee on top: roughly CAD$15K to $40K for a Type II at SMB scope

Truvo Cyber is a cybersecurity professional-services firm with consultants in the US and Canada. Truvo runs SOC 2 programs for SaaS and technology companies as a fractional security team, from capability assessment and Security Program Manual through policies, controls, evidence, and the audit itself, on whichever GRC platform the client already uses (Vanta, Drata, Secureframe, Sprinto). This guide covers how to evaluate a SOC 2 consultant in Canada, then compares the firms active in Canada, including Truvo, on specialty, geography, frameworks, and engagement model.

Want the market overview first? See the SOC 2 compliance services in Canada buyer's orientation.

How do you evaluate a SOC 2 consultant in Canada?

Judge a SOC 2 consultant in Canada on seven criteria: engagement model, framework breadth, infrastructure fit, GRC platform expertise, audit firm independence, Canadian privacy law fluency and pricing transparency. Price and logo count predict the least.

Lowest quote and longest logo list are poor filters. Statistics Canada reports Canadian businesses spent $1.2 billion recovering from cyber security incidents in 2023, double the 2021 figure. Seven criteria predict whether an engagement will work.

1. Engagement model: Assess, Build, Operate, or all three

• Assess: a gap assessment against the AICPA Trust Services Criteria, ending in a roadmap and a defensible scope
• Build: writing policies, configuring controls, and wiring evidence collection into the GRC platform
• Operate: continuous program work that keeps you audit-ready between cycles
• ABO: all three under one fixed-price subscription

Assess alone is a report. Build alone leaves a program that decays within months. A firm that does all three is usually the better long-term partner.

2. Framework breadth beyond SOC 2

Breadth matters if you expect to add:

• ISO 27001 in year two
• ISO 42001 because you ship AI features
• CMMC or CPCSC for defence customers
• PIPEDA and Quebec Law 25 because you operate in Canada

A consultant who builds the program once and maps the program across frameworks costs less than one who restarts for each certification. Under the effective security program as foundation approach, you build the program first, then map frameworks onto the program.

3. Infrastructure fit: cloud-native, on-prem, or hybrid

A pure AWS or GCP environment leans on automated evidence collection and can finish a Type 1 in six to ten weeks. On-prem, bare metal, colocation, and hybrid environments get roughly half that automation (20 to 30 percent against 50 to 60 percent). They need a consultant who has built controls on physical infrastructure, Active Directory, self-hosted SIEM, and firewall appliances. Many cloud-first consultants quietly subcontract or decline the work.

Running anything outside hyperscale cloud? Ask directly: have you built a SOC 2 program on bare metal, with which tools, and how many times?

4. GRC platform expertise

Vanta, Drata, Secureframe, Scrut, Sprinto, Cocoon, and Mycroft.io are all credible platforms in Canada, and all are expensive dashboards if the program underneath is not real. A good consultant:

• Recommends the platform that fits your stack, not the one paying commission
• Configures the platform correctly the first time
• Can name the platforms they implemented in the last year
• Can run managed services on Vanta or Drata if you do not want to hire

Some security tools also cover SOC 2 control families. In the Canadian mid-market the most common is Field Effect, the Canadian managed detection and response platform, which covers part of the logging, monitoring, and incident response evidence for companies without an internal SOC. Field Effect does not replace the program, but does reduce consulting effort on the controls Field Effect covers. A good consultant scopes around the tools you already have.

5. Audit firm independence

Licensed CPA firms issue SOC 2 reports. Consultants do not. The auditor must be independent of whoever built the controls, so a firm that does both is offering a conflict of interest.

The healthy pattern: a consultant for readiness and implementation, a CPA firm for the attestation, and the consultant managing the auditor relationship. Audit firms common in Canada include MHM and Prescient Assurance. Ask every consultant who their audit-firm partners are. A thin bench signals limited delivery history.

Our guide to SOC 2 audit firms in Canada compares the firms that issue reports for Canadian companies.

6. Canadian presence and PIPEDA / Law 25 fluency

Most Canadian companies cannot ignore Canadian privacy law. PIPEDA applies federally, Quebec Law 25 applies to anyone collecting Quebec resident data, and provincial sectoral laws stack on top. Sections 90.12 and 91 of Quebec's Private Sector Act set administrative penalties up to $10 million or 2% of worldwide turnover, and penal fines up to $25 million or 4%. Consultants outside Canada often miss:

• Breach notification timelines
• Data residency considerations for federal customers
• Bilingual documentation some Canadian customers require by contract

If your customer base is Canadian, a consultant with a Canadian office, Canadian counsel relationships, and visible PIPEDA work is worth more than the same fee paid offshore.

7. Pricing transparency

Hourly billing on SOC 2 readiness is a warning sign. A consultant who knows how long the work takes can quote a fixed price with listed deliverables. Some firms publish floor prices (from $20,000) and some publish nothing. A firm that will not give a number on a discovery call is usually pricing to what the buyer seems able to pay.

Who can issue a SOC 2 report in Canada?

A SOC 2 report in Canada is issued by a CPA firm in public practice, acting as the service auditor. Consultants, GRC platforms, and ISO certification bodies cannot issue one. The CPA firm examines the service organization's system description and the controls relevant to security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, or privacy, and then signs an opinion on the description and the controls.

Canadian CPA firms can issue a SOC 2 report under either of two standards. The AICPA SOC 2 Guide governs the US version, an assertion-based examination under AT-C section 205. The CPA Canada SOC 2 Guide adapts the AICPA's 2022 guide to Canadian standards, and the CPA Canada guide describes an engagement performed under CSAE 3000.

CSAE 3416 is the Canadian standard for SOC 1 reports. CSAE 3416 covers controls relevant to user entities' internal control over financial reporting, so a security-focused SOC 2 report is not issued under CSAE 3416. A vendor who quotes you a "CSAE 3416 SOC 2" has mixed up the two standards.

Why SOC 2 has no certification in Canada

SOC 2 certification does not exist in Canada or the United States. SOC 2 is an attestation: a CPA firm examines your controls and issues a report with the firm's opinion, and your customers read that report. ISO 27001 is the framework that ends in a certificate, issued by a certification body. The Standards Council of Canada is the only internationally recognized accreditation body in Canada for ISO 27001 certification bodies.

Who are the top SOC 2 consulting firms in Canada?

The SOC 2 consultancies with verifiable Canadian practices are Truvo Cyber, ISA Cybersecurity, Canadian Cyber, Elastify and the Big 4. Prescient Assurance and MHM Professional Corporation are CPA firms that audit a SOC 2 program rather than build it.

Six firms and the Big 4, each with verifiable Canadian presence and an active SOC 2 practice. We left out firms we could not verify, such as directory listings without a working website or active LinkedIn. Two notes:

• Several top consultant in Canada articles online come from firms based outside Canada or from compliance platforms that are not consultants. We flag that distinction where relevant.
• We list ourselves first. The other firms are described as accurately as public information allows.

1. Truvo Cyber (Canada and US)

One-line positioning. Canadian SOC 2 consultancy that builds an effective security program first, then maps the Trust Services Criteria onto the program.

What we do well. We deliver fixed-price Assess, Build, Operate, and ABO engagements across SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 42001, CMMC, CPCSC, HIPAA, PIPEDA, and Law 25. The program-first methodology means the SOC 2 report is a byproduct of an actually-functioning security program, not the deliverable. We are SOC 2 Type II attested ourselves, which is a useful filter for buyers because it means our internal controls have been examined by a third party against the same criteria we are about to apply to your environment. Our partner stack covers Vanta, Drata, Secureframe, Scrut, and Sprinto, so the platform recommendation is fit-for-purpose, not commission-driven. We are a Canadian SOC 2 consulting firm with deep PIPEDA and Law 25 fluency for Canadian clients, and a measurable presence in US engagements where compliance is a condition of doing business.

Best fit for. Companies where compliance is gating a deal or a renewal, software shops that have outgrown the platform is the program model, and operators who need a SOC 2 program on bare metal or on-prem infrastructure where automated evidence collection caps at 20 to 30 percent and a real consultant is the only way through. Buyers who want a fractional security team (also known as vCISO) for the Operate phase, not a readiness contract that renews forever. Canadian teams that need one defined role filled, such as a GRC engineer to operate Vanta or Drata through the audit, use our cybersecurity staff augmentation in Canada.

Notable signals. Founded 2018, offices in Toronto and Ottawa, consultants in the US and Canada, SOC 2 Type II attested, founder background spans Bank of Canada, Payments Canada (the system that clears about $400 billion nightly), KPMG, and Accenture. We treat GRC engineering as a community-originated practice, not an in-house brand, and apply the practice across our engagements: build security as code, evidence as code, policies as version-controlled artifacts. Public clients include Canadian fintechs, IT services firms, defence supply chain operators, and regulated SaaS.

Caveats. We are deliberately small. If you need a 50-consultant bench for a multi-region rollout in eight weeks, we are not the right fit. If you want a CPA audit firm, we are also not the right fit. We partner with audit firms and do not issue reports.

Our SOC 2 compliance consulting page covers the readiness and audit-prep work in more detail.

2. Prescient Assurance (US-based, serves Canadian clients)

One-line positioning. A licensed CPA audit firm that issues SOC 1, SOC 2, SOC 3, ISO, HIPAA, and PCI reports. Not a consultant in the readiness sense.

What they do well. They are a registered, CREST-certified audit and attestation firm with a senior auditor bench across the US, EMEA, and APAC, serving Canadian clients. They are commonly shortlisted alongside A-LIGN, Schellman, Coalfire, and Sensiba for SOC 2 audits. Their Drata Auditor Directory listing and Hyperproof partner status reflect a steady pipeline of platform-driven engagements.

Best fit for. Buyers who are ready for the audit. If you have completed readiness with a consultant, Prescient is a reasonable choice for the attestation itself.

Notable signals. CREST-certified, Drata Auditor Directory, Hyperproof partner, US-based with Canadian clients.

Caveats. As an audit firm, Prescient cannot also build your program. Engaging the same firm for readiness and audit is the conflict-of-interest pattern noted earlier. We mention them because Canadian buyers regularly conflate consultant and auditor, and the difference matters.

3. MHM Professional Corporation (Canada-based, global delivery)

One-line positioning. A Canadian licensed CPA audit firm that focuses exclusively on cybersecurity, privacy, and governance audits.

What they do well. Founded by Mark, a former PwC partner with about 25 years in the practice, MHM is a Canadian licensed CPA firm authorized by provincial regulatory bodies and accredited by the Standards Council of Canada (SCC) for ISO certifications. Their stated mission is to bring high-quality audits to smaller organizations at prices that do not require Big 4 budgets. Scope covers SOC 1, SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 42001, ISO 27701, and privacy assessments.

Best fit for. Canadian SMBs and mid-market shops looking for a Canadian-based audit firm with Big 4 lineage and SCC-accredited ISO certification capability.

Notable signals. Founder ex-PwC partner, SCC-accredited (which provides international IAF MLA recognition for ISO certificates), Canada-based with global client delivery.

Caveats. MHM also offers a SOC readiness assessment. If you use them for readiness, confirm how they separate the readiness team from the audit team, or keep readiness and audit with separate firms.

4. ISA Cybersecurity (Toronto, Calgary, Ottawa)

One-line positioning. One of Canada's largest cybersecurity-focused services firms, with a broad MSSP and advisory book and a SOC 2 Type II-attested security operations centre.

What they do well. Three decades of Canadian cybersecurity history, deep enterprise relationships, and an in-house SOC 2 Type II-attested SOC supporting 24x7 managed detection and response. Their advisory practice covers GRC, network security, application security, identity, and assessments. Recognized as a Major Player in IDC MarketScape: Canadian Security Services Vendor Assessment.

Best fit for. Mid-market and enterprise buyers who want a single Canadian vendor across MSSP, MDR, and GRC advisory, especially those with significant on-prem or hybrid footprint and Canadian data residency requirements.

Notable signals. Canadian offices in Toronto (HQ), Calgary, and Ottawa, IDC Major Player recognition, in-house SOC 2 Type II SOC, established 1990s-era cybersecurity firm.

Caveats. ISA is a generalist enterprise cybersecurity firm with GRC advisory inside a much larger services bundle. If your need is a fixed-price SOC 2 readiness program with a small senior team running it end-to-end, you are likely to get more focused attention from a boutique.

5. Canadian Cyber (Toronto)

One-line positioning. Toronto-based GRC consultancy with ISO 27001 and SOC 2 capability, plus virtual CISO services.

What they do well. Founded in 2014, Canadian Cyber positions on classic information security consulting: ISO 27001 implementation and audit, SOC 2 readiness, NIST-aligned advisory, vCISO, cloud security across AWS and Azure, and tabletop incident response exercises. The team holds CISSP, CISA, and CISM certifications.

Best fit for. Canadian SMBs and mid-market companies looking for a Toronto-based generalist GRC partner across SOC 2 and ISO 27001 work.

Notable signals. Toronto-headquartered, founded 2014, CISSP and CISA credentialed team, public client testimonials.

Caveats. Public information on engagement model and pricing transparency is thin. Worth a discovery call to compare against the criteria above.

6. Elastify (Toronto)

One-line positioning. Toronto-based compliance-as-a-service firm offering tiered Bronze, Silver, and Gold packages across SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, CMMC, HIPAA, and NIST.

What they do well. Elastify packages compliance work into productized tiers, which is unusual in the Canadian market and useful for buyers who want predictable, off-the-rack pricing. Service breadth covers GRC, penetration testing, modern infrastructure, and staff augmentation.

Best fit for. Canadian SMBs that want a tiered service-bundle model where the level of consultant involvement scales with the package you pick, not with scope.

Notable signals. Toronto downtown headquarters, multi-tier productized service offering, public framework breadth.

Caveats. Productized tiers can compress the depth of senior consultant involvement. For complex environments, especially on-prem or multi-framework, ask which tier actually puts a senior consultant in the room.

7. Big 4 Canada: Deloitte, KPMG, PwC, EY

One-line positioning. Tier-one professional services firms with mature Canadian SOC and ISO practices, structured around enterprise engagements.

What they do well. Deep benches, regulator-grade documentation, partner-level senior involvement on enterprise accounts, and global consistency. For multinationals running SOC 2 alongside SOX, financial audit, or large transformation programs, the integration story is real.

Best fit for. Enterprises and regulated industries where consolidating SOC 2 inside an existing Big 4 advisory relationship is operationally simpler than adding a boutique vendor. Public sector and crown corporations where Big 4 procurement vehicles already exist.

Notable signals. Multi-thousand-person Canadian practices, public sector frameworks, full-stack risk advisory, and well-established CPA audit arms.

Caveats. Pricing is in CAD$80K to $200K+ territory for SOC 2 work, which is rarely justified for SMBs and mid-market SaaS. The audit-firm-and-consultant separation also bites here: if your auditor is the Big 4 firm, your readiness consultant has to be someone else, which often means using two Big 4 firms simultaneously and absorbing their joint pricing.

How do the SOC 2 consultants compare?

Boutiques such as Truvo Cyber, Canadian Cyber and Elastify sell fixed-scope readiness and build work, ISA Cybersecurity bundles GRC advisory with managed security, and the Big 4 price for enterprise programs. Prescient Assurance and MHM issue the report and do not build the program.

SOC 2 consultants by city: Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, Ottawa, and Calgary

Toronto has the deepest bench of the SOC 2 firms in this guide: four of the six firms list a Toronto office. Two list Ottawa, one lists Calgary, and none of the boutique firms profiled here lists a Vancouver or Montreal office. The Big 4 practices are national, and the two audit firms, Prescient Assurance and MHM Professional Corporation, serve clients across Canada.

Each city brings a different local rule for a SOC 2 program to meet, and that rule is often a better filter than the consultant's postal code. The table pairs each city with the firms in this guide that list an office there and the local compliance consideration a SOC 2 consultant should raise.

A consultant outside your city can still be the right pick. Ask any SOC 2 consultant on your shortlist how they will handle the local consideration in the right-hand column, and whether they have handled that requirement before.

What does SOC 2 consulting cost in Canada?

A first-year SOC 2 program in Canada typically costs CAD$15K to $40K at a specialist boutique, CAD$40K to $85K at a full-service consultancy and CAD$80K to $200K+ at the Big 4. The CPA audit fee, roughly CAD$15K to $40K for a Type II at SMB scope, is on top.

IBM's 2025 Cost of a Data Breach Report puts the average Canadian breach at CA$6.98 million, up 10.4% year over year. A properly built program costs a small fraction of one incident.

Public Canadian pricing data is patchy. These first-year ranges come from firms that publish floor prices and from third-party benchmarks:

• Specialist boutiques. CAD$15K to CAD$40K for a focused readiness assessment or a tightly scoped Build for a small environment.
• Full-service consultancies. CAD$40K to CAD$85K for a complete first-year program covering Assess plus Build plus the first audit cycle for a Canadian SMB.
• Big 4 and large advisory. CAD$80K to CAD$200K+, structured around enterprise engagement vehicles.

Year two costs drop if the program is properly built and run continuously. They rise if year one was paper compliance and the foundation has to be rebuilt.

Four factors move the price most:

• Type 1 versus Type 2. Type 1 attests to design at a point in time. Type 2 adds an observation window of three to twelve months and is the report most enterprise buyers want. See why most companies start with Type 1 and graduate to Type 2.
• Trust Services Categories in scope. SOC 2 has five categories: Security (mandatory), Availability, Confidentiality, Processing Integrity, and Privacy. Most reports include only Security. Adding Availability and Confidentiality typically adds 15 to 25 percent to the consulting fee.
• Infrastructure shape. Cloud-native shops get 50 to 60 percent automated evidence collection through a GRC platform. On-prem, bare metal, and hybrid environments cap at 20 to 30 percent and need more senior consultant time.
• Engagement model. Assess-only is cheapest. ABO has the highest annual spend but the lowest unit cost, because the program does not have to be rebuilt each cycle.

For Truvo's pricing, the pricing page is the source of truth.

How does Truvo approach SOC 2 differently?

We treat compliance as a byproduct of effective security. The first build for any client is a real security program:

• A control inventory mapped to the actual stack
• Policies that describe how the team actually works
• Evidence collection wired into the systems people already use

SOC 2 maps onto that program first, then ISO 27001, then ISO 42001 when the AI features ship.

• Four engagement shapes. Assess, Build, Operate, and ABO let clients enter at the right point and stay compliant between audits. Operate is where our fractional security team (also known as vCISO) work happens: a fixed-price subscription with senior consultants, not fractional hours by the week. For a side-by-side view, see the top vCISO services for mid-market SaaS comparison.
• On-prem and bare metal as first-class scope. Physical infrastructure, Active Directory, self-hosted SIEM (Wazuh, Security Onion), endpoint protection, and firewall appliances. We test changes in an on-prem lab that mirrors a real client environment before the changes touch production.
• GRC engineering. A community-originated practice that treats GRC work as software: version-controlled artifacts, evidence pipelines, programmatic policy mapping, and automated drift detection.
• No hourly billing and no subcontracted senior work.

We are likely the right pick if you need:

• One firm across SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 42001, and CPCSC over several years
• First-class treatment for on-prem infrastructure
• A partner with PIPEDA and Law 25 fluency
• Fixed-price, scoped engagements with senior consultants doing the work

If those do not line up, one of the other firms on this list probably fits better.

Frequently asked questions about SOC 2 consulting in Canada

What are the best SOC 2 consulting firms in Canada for a mid-sized SaaS company?

Start with consultancies that run the full Assess, Build, Operate cycle at fixed prices. Audit firms and single-platform implementers are a different category. This guide compares six firms and the Big 4, including Truvo Cyber and the audit firms Prescient Assurance and MHM Professional Corporation, which issue the attestation but cannot build the program they audit. At mid-size, filter on engagement model, GRC platform independence, PIPEDA and Law 25 fluency, and fixed pricing. Full-service Canadian consultancies typically charge CAD$40,000 to $85,000 for a complete first-year program.

What are the best firms to use for SOC 2 gap analysis and remediation planning?

Gap analysis is the Assess engagement: an assessment against the AICPA Trust Services Criteria that ends in a defensible scope and a prioritized remediation roadmap. Firms that do this well:

• Quote a fixed price, not hourly
• Staff the work with practitioners who have built security programs
• Rate controls on maturity (not in place, in place but not effective, effective but not provable, effective and provable), not pass or fail
• Carry remediation into a Build phase

Audit firms are the wrong choice: AICPA independence rules prevent the firm that designs your controls from auditing them.

How much does SOC 2 consulting cost in Canada?

Three separate costs:

• Consulting: CAD$15,000 to $40,000 at specialist boutiques for a focused readiness or scoped Build, CAD$40,000 to $85,000 at full-service consultancies for a complete first year, and CAD$80,000 to $200,000+ at the Big 4
• Audit fee to the CPA firm: roughly CAD$15,000 to $40,000 for a Type II at SMB scope, less for a Type I
• GRC platform licensing (Vanta, Drata, Secureframe, Sprinto)

Do I need a Canadian SOC 2 consultant, or can I use a US firm?

SOC 2 is an AICPA standard, so the audit itself is the same on either side of the border. A Canadian firm matters when the program has to hold up to Canadian buyers and regulators as well: PIPEDA and Quebec Law 25 data-residency questions, CPCSC for defence supply-chain work, and the Bill C-8 critical-cyber-systems regime. A consultant who already maps those into the same control set saves a second project later.

Can one firm handle SOC 2 and ISO 27001 together?

Yes, and one program is the efficient way to do both. Of the 33 SOC 2 Security criteria, 30 map fully or partially to ISO 27001 (Truvo Cyber, 2026). The audits differ: a CPA attestation report for SOC 2 and a certification body audit of the ISMS for ISO 27001. See the SOC 2 vs ISO 27001 guide for the control-level mapping, and the guide to ISO 27001 consultants in Canada for that market.

How long does a SOC 2 audit take in Canada?

A cloud-native SaaS can be ready for Type I in six to ten weeks. Hybrid and on-prem environments take longer. Type II then needs a three to twelve month observation window, plus four to eight weeks of fieldwork and reporting. Most of the calendar is the program build and the observation window.

Do I need a SOC 2 Type 1 before Type 2?

Not technically, but Type 1 first is the cheapest path for most companies. Most Canadian SaaS companies run Type 1 to meet near-term customer demands, then move to Type 2 once controls have operated long enough to observe. Skip Type 1 only when no customer needs a report soon.

Can my external auditor also do my readiness work?

No. AICPA independence standards prohibit a firm from auditing controls the firm designed. The auditor, a licensed CPA firm, issues the report. The consultant designs controls, writes policies, configures the GRC platform, and manages the auditor relationship. Some large CPA firms offer both through separated advisory and attestation arms, but keeping the two firms separate is cleaner.

Is there SOC 2 certification in Canada?

No. SOC 2 is not a certification: a licensed CPA firm issues a SOC 2 attestation report on your controls, and no body certifies you. In Canada the CPA firm can report under the Canadian standard CSAE 3000 or the AICPA standards US customers often ask for, and some firms can report under both. See SOC 2 audit firms in Canada for how to choose one.

Does SOC 2 satisfy PIPEDA or Law 25?

No, and the reverse is also true. SOC 2 is a US security and trust framework, PIPEDA is federal Canadian privacy law, and Law 25 is Quebec privacy law. Controls overlap in access management, data handling, breach notification, and retention, but each has unique requirements. Design one program that covers all three from the start.

What if my infrastructure is on-prem, not in AWS?

Choose a consultant who has built SOC 2 programs on physical infrastructure, Active Directory, self-hosted SIEM, and firewall appliances. GRC platforms automate 20 to 30 percent of evidence on non-cloud stacks, against 50 to 60 percent in pure cloud. Ask how many engagements the consultant has run on infrastructure like yours.

What does SOC 2 compliance mean for a Canadian company?

SOC 2 compliance means a CPA firm has examined your controls against the AICPA Trust Services Criteria and issued a report your customers can review. SOC 2 is a voluntary framework that becomes a requirement when a customer contract asks for a SOC 2 report. PIPEDA and Quebec Law 25 are laws that apply separately, so a Canadian program should cover both.

How do I get a SOC 2 audit in Toronto?

Engage two separate firms: a readiness consultant to build the controls and evidence, and an independent CPA firm to perform the audit. Four of the six firms in this guide list a Toronto office, and the audit firms profiled here serve Canadian clients. If you sell to banks or insurers, confirm your consultant knows OSFI Guidelines B-10 and B-13.

Further reading

• Top 8 vCISO services for mid-market SaaS: eight providers compared, plus the build-versus-operate test
• SOC 2 consulting firms in Canada: Truvo's Canadian SOC 2 page, with engagement detail and the readiness scorecard
• SOC 2 for bare metal and on-prem infrastructure: colocation, hybrid, and physical-infrastructure SOC 2 work
• SOC 2 implementation cost and timeline: the variables that move SOC 2 cost in Canada
• How to choose a SOC 2 consultant: the interview process
• SOC 2 compliance services in Canada: a buyer's orientation: auditor, GRC platform, and consultancy explained
• SOC 2 Trust Services Criteria guide: the AICPA TSC structure used in every audit
• Compliance consulting versus GRC platform: why the platform alone leaves the program incomplete

Outbound references:

• AICPA Trust Services Criteria (2017, with revisions): the source standard for SOC 2 reporting. aicpa-cima.com
• AICPA SSAE 18 (now AT-C 105 and AT-C 205): the attestation standards that govern SOC 2 reports.
• CPA Canada: the Canadian professional body for CPA audit firms issuing SOC 2 attestations. cpacanada.ca
• NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0: the program-level reference Truvo uses to align controls across SOC 2, ISO 27001, and CMMC. nist.gov/cyberframework