Overview
Engagements in Canada cover federally regulated financial institutions and their technology suppliers, SaaS platforms selling into regulated buyers, healthcare providers under provincial privacy legislation, and fintechs scaling into the US market.
Delivery runs from our Sheridan, Wyoming office, which shares North American business hours, with Karachi picking up overnight work so progress continues while you are closed.
What drives testing here
Local drivers
- OSFI B-13
- Federally regulated institutions must manage technology and cyber risk with independent assurance over control effectiveness, including controls at third parties.
- PIPEDA
- Safeguards must be appropriate to the sensitivity of the information, and breach reporting makes the absence of them visible to the Commissioner.
- Quebec Law 25
- The strictest privacy regime in Canada, with significant penalties and obligations that reach any organisation handling Quebec residents’ data regardless of where it sits.
- Provincial health privacy
- PHIPA in Ontario and its provincial equivalents carry access control and audit trail expectations above the federal baseline.
How engagements are delivered
Delivered from our Wyoming office on North American business hours, with on-site attendance in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver arranged where scope requires it.
Delivery model
- Delivery
- From our Sheridan, Wyoming office on North American hours
- Mapping
- OSFI B-13, PIPEDA, Law 25 and provincial health privacy as applicable
- Coverage
- Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Calgary and remote nationwide
- Data handling
- Residency and handling requirements agreed before testing begins
Most requested here
Web application penetration testing
Authenticated, multi-role testing of your web application: the logic, the roles and the state transitions a scanner cannot reach.
Service 04Cloud penetration testing
AWS, Azure and GCP tested for the paths that get used: identity escalation, exposed storage and metadata reachable from your own application.
Service 06Secure source code review
Manual review with the source in hand: tracing user input to dangerous sinks, and reading the authorisation logic rather than guessing at it.
Questions
Do you have a Canadian office?
No. Our offices are in Pakistan and the United States. Canada is covered from Wyoming, which shares your business hours, with on-site attendance arranged where scope requires it.
Can findings be mapped to OSFI B-13?
Yes. Findings are tagged to the relevant B-13 domains alongside CVSS ratings, and the report includes the scope, method, dates and retest evidence an internal audit function needs to satisfy independent assurance expectations.
We handle Quebec residents’ data. Does that change scope?
It changes what the report has to evidence rather than how the testing runs. Law 25 obligations attach to the data, not to where you are, so the engagement covers where that data actually reaches, including logs, backups and third-party integrations, and the report says so explicitly.
How much does a penetration test cost in Canada?
Cost follows scope rather than a Canadian rate card. Delivery from our Wyoming office means shared business hours. A fixed quote follows a short scoping call and covers testing, reporting and retest.
Which is the best penetration testing company in Canada?
Ask for verifiable evidence rather than a ranking: the certifications held by the testers assigned to you, and the team's public research record, the firm's own ISO 27001 status, whether retesting is included, and whether a redacted report is available before signing.
Do you test for OSFI-regulated institutions?
Yes. B-13 expects independent assurance over technology and cyber risk controls, including controls operated by third parties, and reports carry the scope, method, dates and retest evidence an internal audit function needs to satisfy that expectation.
Can data stay in Canada during the engagement?
Residency and handling terms are agreed before testing begins. Testing prefers seeded accounts and synthetic records, which removes most of the question, and where production access is required the report states what was handled and where it was held.
Do you provide reports in French?
Technical reports are written in English. Where a French-language executive or regulator-facing summary is required, particularly for Quebec entities under Law 25, that is arranged with us responsible for the technical accuracy of the translation.