Services
Cybersecurity and managed security
In outsourcing a failed security review ends a deal before pricing is ever discussed, so security is a commercial function as much as a control one. Corpshore Canada provides managed security operations covering monitoring, vulnerability management, incident response and identity and access management, from Canadian pods in your time zone at 35 to 55 percent of the cost of equivalent in-house Canadian hiring. We build a posture your own customers and auditors can review rather than a set of tools that look reassuring in a diagram. Data residency is configured to your requirement including Canadian-only hosting where a public sector buyer asks, and monitoring and response run in your working hours with continuous coverage where the risk requires it. The measure of the work is a threat contained early and a review passed, not an alert volume.
How the service works
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Assessment and posture baseline
We assess the current controls, the exposure and the gaps against a recognised framework rather than a checklist of products. That means the real attack surface, the identities with more access than they need and the monitoring blind spots no dashboard shows. The output is a prioritised posture baseline that separates the findings that matter from the noise, with a plan sequenced by risk.
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Hardening and identity
We close the highest-risk gaps first, tighten identity and access management to least privilege and put monitoring where the baseline showed it was missing. Vulnerability management moves from a periodic scan to a tracked programme with owners and deadlines. Changes are made with your change control rather than around it, so security improvement does not become an operational incident of its own.
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Monitoring and detection
We operate continuous monitoring tuned to your environment, with detection rules written for your real risks rather than a vendor default that pages on everything. Alerts are triaged by analysts before they reach you, so what you see is a small number of genuine events with context rather than a firehose. The aim is a shorter time to detect, measured rather than claimed.
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Incident response and improvement
When something happens we run a defined response with clear roles, containment steps and communication, then a blameless review that turns the incident into a control improvement. Response plans and runbooks are tested through exercises rather than written and filed. Governance runs on an agreed cadence so posture, exposure and open findings are visible between incidents rather than only after one.
How we deliver it from Canada
Delivery is from Canadian pods in Ontario, Quebec and Alberta, in English and Canadian French, with monitoring and response run in your working hours across Eastern, Central and Mountain time and continuous coverage where the risk requires it. We operate inside your tooling and your identity provider rather than routing your data through ours, so evidence and audit stay under your control. Data residency is configured to your requirement including Canadian-only hosting where a public sector buyer asks.
Assessment, defined scope
A security consultant and specialists baselining posture against a recognised framework, with a prioritised findings report and a remediation plan sequenced by risk.
Managed security, 5 to 10
A monitoring and response team under a security lead, with triage, vulnerability management and an incident response capability reported against agreed objectives.
Security practice, 10 and above
A managed security practice with a security manager, continuous monitoring and a blended Canadian and distributed model for round-the-clock coverage under one governance framework.
Compliance and data handling
Managed security operations comply with the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act by default, with Quebec Law 25 requirements applied where personal information of Quebec residents is in scope, including its breach notification provisions. Controls follow the relevant group framework, with SOC 2 or ISO 27001 readiness supported where the business requires it and certification scope confirmed on request. Where any monitoring or response is supported from outside Canada the cross-border position and data handling are documented explicitly before go-live.
Technology
We operate in your security stack rather than forcing a rip and replace: your SIEM, endpoint detection, identity provider and vulnerability tooling. Where a capability is genuinely missing we recommend and integrate proven tooling under your governance rather than locking you into ours. Specific platform depth is confirmed against your environment during assessment, and detection content is written for your risks rather than shipped as a generic ruleset.
How performance is measured
- Mean time to detect and mean time to respond
- Critical and high vulnerabilities open against age thresholds
- Alert triage accuracy and false positive rate
- Coverage of monitored assets and identities
- Security exercise and incident review completion
Reporting covers posture, open findings and incidents on an agreed cadence, written so a board or a customer security team can read it rather than only an analyst. After an incident we provide a factual timeline, the root cause and the control change that follows, and where exposure is trending the wrong way we escalate it with a recommendation rather than letting it accumulate quietly until the next review.
Where this applies
Banking and financial services
Monitoring, vulnerability management and incident response with a controls posture a risk committee and a regulator can review, and adjudicative decisions kept in Canada.
Government and public sector
Managed security with Canadian-only data residency where the mandate requires it, and detection and response aligned to the framework the buyer is held to.
Technology and SaaS
Security operations that let a software company pass customer security reviews and enterprise procurement without standing up a full internal security team.
Pricing and engagement models
Security work is priced as a fixed-scope assessment, a managed security service with agreed objectives and coverage, or specialist augmentation into your existing security function. Assessment suits a posture baseline or a review deadline; managed service suits continuous monitoring and response; augmentation suits a specific skills gap. We scope to the risk that matters rather than selling coverage you do not need.
Frequently asked questions
How is your monitoring different from a tool we could buy?
A tool produces alerts; a service produces decisions. We tune detection to your real risks, triage alerts before they reach you and respond to the genuine ones, so what you get is a small number of real events with context rather than a dashboard you have to staff yourself. The tool is the easy part, and the analysts and the tuning are where the value sits.
Can you help us pass a customer security review or SOC 2?
Yes. We baseline your posture against the framework you are held to, close the gaps in priority order and support SOC 2 or ISO 27001 readiness where the business requires it. We are not the certifying auditor, and we prepare the controls and evidence so the review is a confirmation rather than a discovery, with certification scope confirmed on request.
Where is our security data processed?
Monitoring runs inside your tooling and your environment rather than routing your data through ours, and data residency is configured to your requirement including Canadian-only where a public sector buyer requires it. Where any part of the operation is supported from outside Canada the cross-border position and data handling are documented before go-live rather than assumed.
How fast do you respond to an incident?
Response times are set as objectives during scoping and reported against, because a number promised without a scope behind it means nothing. We run a defined response with clear roles and containment steps, and we test the plan through exercises rather than filing it, so the first time it runs is not during a real incident under pressure.
Do you run continuous coverage or business hours?
Both are available and the choice follows your risk. Monitoring and response run in your working hours across Eastern, Central and Mountain time as standard, and where the exposure justifies it we add a distributed tier for round-the-clock coverage under the same runbooks and governance rather than a separate team with a separate standard.
Will you work with our existing security team?
Yes. We augment your function inside your stack and your identity provider, adopt your change control and hand back tuned detection content and runbooks your own analysts can operate. The aim is to raise the capability of your security operation and remove its blind spots, not to make you dependent on us to understand your own environment.
Build your Canadian team
Tell us the work, the languages and the coverage you need. You will have a considered response within six hours, or book a discovery call now.
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