SOC 2 readiness consultant directory

This directory lists the people and products that get you ready for a SOC 2 audit. It does not list audit firms, and the difference is the reason the page exists.

Last reviewed 2026-08-16Written by Jacob Masse, TrazTech Inc.

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The whole directory is above. These are the same firms cut down to one service or one province, which is usually the faster way in.

• AI security firms in Canada, 5 firms
• Cloud compliance firms in Canada, 10 firms
• Compliance advisory firms in Canada, 49 firms
• ISO 27001 firms in Canada, 25 firms
• ISO 42001 firms in Canada, 6 firms
• Penetration testing firms in Canada, 17 firms
• Canadian privacy firms in Canada, 4 firms
• Security questionnaires firms in Canada, 6 firms
• SOC 2 audit firms in Canada, 5 firms
• SOC 2 readiness firms in Canada, 51 firms
• Trust center firms in Canada, 6 firms
• vCISO firms in Canada, 17 firms
• SOC 2 readiness firms in Ontario, 11 firms

If you want quotes now rather than a list to read, the quote form puts your scope in front of Canadian firms that do readiness work. If you want to understand what you are buying first, start with the guide to hiring readiness help in Canada, which also links to a page for each of twenty cities.

What this directory lists

Two categories, kept apart because they are bought differently and priced differently.

Readiness consultants. Firms and independent practitioners who do the preparation work: scoping, gap assessment, policy writing, control design, remediation project management, evidence collection and support during fieldwork. A listing will record the engagement models the firm offers, the size of company it usually works with, whether it works alongside a compliance platform or against a spreadsheet, and which provinces and industries it knows. That last item matters more than location, because a consultant who has taken a health technology company through PHIPA and SOC 2 together is a different hire from one who has only done cloud SaaS.

Compliance platforms. Software that connects to your cloud accounts, identity provider and code repository and collects part of the evidence automatically, on top of a control framework already mapped to the Trust Services Criteria. A listing will record what it integrates with, whether it includes policy templates, whether the pricing is public, and what the contract term usually is. Canadian pricing runs roughly $8,000 to $30,000 CAD a year, typically prepaid annually and often on a multi-year term, so the contract shape is worth listing beside the feature list. The three most commonly bought in Canada are covered in detail already: Vanta, Drata and Sprinto, including what each one leaves entirely to you.

Statute experience is the filter that does not exist on any American directory and it is the one that matters most here, because a firm that has never written a Law 25 clause is not the firm to hire for a Quebec scope. Sector experience will sit alongside it, since a consultant who has taken a health technology company through PHIPA and SOC 2 together is a different hire from one who has only done cloud SaaS.

Consultant, platform, auditor

These get conflated constantly, usually by a sales conversation that has an interest in conflating them. They are three different purchases and you may need all three, in that order.

The independence rule is the part worth understanding rather than memorising. An auditor is giving an opinion on whether your controls were designed properly and operated over a period. A firm that designed those controls, wrote the policy set behind them and built the evidence pipeline cannot then give an opinion on its own work, so it is barred from auditing what it built. That is why the readiness supplier and the audit firm are separate purchases, and why nobody in this directory can also sign your report.

Some large firms sell both through separated teams. That arrangement can be legitimate under professional standards, but a reader of your report does not know your supplier's internal governance and will ask about it when they see one name on both sides. For a company under fifty people the uncomplicated answer is two suppliers. When you get to picking the audit firm, GetSOC2 covers auditors, including fees, report types and independence. This site stops at the point where an auditor becomes useful to you.

What a listing shows

The two rows below are format examples, not real firms. The names are invented. Nothing here is a recommendation and no such company is listed.

How listings work

A basic listing is free and stays free. Name, category, provinces served, what the firm or product does, and a link. Nothing about that tier expires or converts into a bill.

Verified is the paid tier. It costs $300 CAD a month or $3,000 CAD a year, and the firm-facing page sets out exactly what it includes and what it does not. Saying that here rather than after somebody has filled in a form is the whole point: a directory that calls itself free and then invoices you has told you what it is.

Claiming a listing means somebody at the firm confirms the detail is correct and takes responsibility for keeping it current. An unclaimed listing is one assembled from public information, and it carries the unclaimed badge so you know the difference. Claiming is free, it does not put the listing on a trial that later charges, and it is done from the listing page or by writing to [email protected] from a company address.

Verified is the only badge that means we did work, and it is the badge you pay for. For a consultant it means we confirmed the business exists, spoke to a person there, and checked the firm performs the work rather than subcontracting it under its own name. For a platform it means we confirmed the integrations and the contract terms with the vendor. Verified is not a quality rating and it is not an endorsement. It says the supplier is what it claims to be, nothing more, and paying for it does not change what its listing says.

What to ask

You can run a good selection process without a directory, and the questions matter more than the list anyway. Give three candidates the same written scope: headcount, the systems in scope, which Trust Services Criteria, your intended observation window, and the date a report has to exist by. Quotes priced against different scopes cannot be compared, and that accounts for most of the wild variation companies report.

Ask a consultant what you are handed at the end, and whether the policies are templates or written against how you actually operate. Ask who does the evidence collection during the window, because a consultant who leaves at the point the window opens has left before the hard part. Ask how they work with your engineers, since remediation is engineering change rather than paperwork. Ask what happens if the auditor raises an exception later.

Before any of those conversations, the readiness scorecard tells you which control areas are weak, which is what a consultant will quote against anyway.

Ask a platform vendor for the contract term, the renewal price, and what happens to your evidence if you leave. Ask which of your systems it genuinely integrates with rather than which logos are on the page. Our readiness assessment page covers how to tell whether you are actually ready, and the preparation guide is the work itself if you decide to do it without anybody.

If you run one of these firms rather than shopping for one, the pages on where readiness work comes from and how to package the offer are written for you, and they are honest about how small a share of pipeline a directory listing is.

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