Navigate Canada's complex regulatory landscape with confidence. Prairie Sentinel provides end-to-end GRC program development, gap assessments, audit readiness, and ongoing compliance management — built specifically for the Canadian context.
Canadian organizations face an increasingly complex web of cybersecurity and privacy obligations — federal legislation, provincial privacy laws, sector-specific regulations, and international frameworks demanded by enterprise clients and cyber insurers.
Prairie Sentinel's GRC team helps you build programs that satisfy regulators, pass audits, satisfy cyber insurance requirements, and — most importantly — actually reduce your organizational risk.
Prairie Sentinel's GRC team has deep experience implementing and maintaining every major security and privacy framework in use by Canadian organizations.
Full implementation support from gap assessment through ISMS design, control implementation, internal audit, and certification audit preparation. First-attempt pass record.
Current-state assessment using the NIST Cybersecurity Framework's Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, and Recover functions — with a prioritized roadmap to your target profile.
Readiness assessments, gap remediation, evidence collection support, and ongoing monitoring programs for SOC 2 Trust Service Criteria (Security, Availability, Confidentiality, Privacy, Processing Integrity).
Scoping, gap assessment, remediation, and QSA-ready documentation for organizations processing, transmitting, or storing payment card data — from SAQ through full ROC engagements.
Privacy program design, privacy impact assessments (PIA), breach notification procedures, and CPPA transition readiness — ensuring compliance with Canada's federal private sector privacy law.
Specialized compliance support for healthcare organizations under Alberta's Health Information Act (HIA), provincial PHIA legislation, and US HIPAA for cross-border data handling.
Comprehensive gap analysis measuring your current controls against the target framework — scored and visualized so leadership can understand where you stand today.
Systematic identification, analysis, and prioritization of information security risks relevant to your specific industry, size, and data types — forming the backbone of your ISMS.
Creation or enhancement of policies, procedures, standards, and technical controls tailored to your organization — pragmatic, not template-driven boilerplate.
Hands-on guidance implementing technical and administrative controls — from configuring MFA and encryption to running security awareness training and supplier assessments.
Independent internal audit to verify control effectiveness before external assessment — identifying any remaining gaps while there's still time to remediate.
Coordination with external auditors for certification, plus ongoing monitoring, continual improvement, and annual surveillance audit support to maintain your certification.
Planning ahead matters: ISO 27001 certification typically takes 6–12 months. SOC 2 Type II requires a minimum 6-month observation period. We recommend starting your compliance journey well before your deadline.
Compliance isn't a destination — it's an ongoing program. Prairie Sentinel's Managed Compliance service keeps your certifications current and your controls effective year-round.
Ongoing control testing, policy review cycles, and risk register maintenance — so your compliance posture doesn't drift between annual audits.
Proactive notification and impact assessment when laws or framework requirements change — keeping you ahead of new obligations under CPPA, provincial privacy laws, and sectoral regulation.
Centralized evidence collection and audit trail maintenance throughout the year — eliminating the last-minute scramble before audit season and dramatically reducing audit preparation time.
Third-party risk assessment program — questionnaires, reviews, and ongoing monitoring of your critical suppliers' security posture to manage supply chain risk.
Quarterly GRC dashboards and board-ready risk reports in plain language — giving leadership the visibility they need to make informed governance decisions.
Application assistance, pre-qualification assessments, and post-incident documentation support to help you obtain and maintain adequate cyber liability coverage.