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Law 25, PIPEDA, SOC 2, ISO 27001 and PCI DSS compliance, in French and English

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Compliance should win contracts, not just pass audits.

A customer questionnaire you cannot answer, a request for proposals that requires SOC 2, Law 25 obligations with penalties based on worldwide turnover: compliance now decides who wins contracts. You need programs that pass the audit, in both official languages, and policies and standards your teams actually apply, one standard at a time if you prefer.

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Services

Law 25 Readiness Check

In two weeks, know which Law 25 and PIPEDA obligations you meet, which you do not, and the five actions that matter most.

Call us when:

  • You operate in Quebec or serve Quebec customers
  • Nobody is named as person in charge of personal information
  • A customer or a partner asks for your privacy practices

You get:

  • A gap check against each obligation, by the date it came into force
  • An outline of the personal information you hold and where
  • A check of your website: privacy policy, cookies, published contact
  • Your five priority actions, with effort and owner

Duration and format: 2 weeks. Remote, in French or English.

Built on: Commission d'accès à l'information du Québec guidance on Law 25; Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, PIPEDA.

Fee: per diem rate; number of days agreed in writing before work starts.

Law 25 and PIPEDA Privacy Program

A privacy program you can show to a customer, a regulator or a court, in French and English.

Call us when:

  • The readiness check found gaps
  • You move data to a cloud provider outside Quebec
  • You had a confidentiality incident

You get:

  • Governance policies and a privacy policy in French and English
  • A register of confidentiality incidents and a breach procedure
  • A privacy impact assessment method, and the first assessments, including transfers outside Quebec
  • Consent, retention and destruction rules, and clauses for your service providers
  • Training for your teams and a 90-day plan

Duration and format: 8 to 12 weeks. Remote, with workshops on site.

Built on: Law 25 (Quebec); PIPEDA; ISO/IEC 27701:2025.

Fee: per diem rate; number of days agreed in writing before work starts.

SOC 2, ISO 27001 and PCI DSS Readiness

Walk into the audit ready, with one set of controls that answers several frameworks.

Call us when:

  • A customer or a request for proposals requires a SOC 2 report or an ISO 27001 certificate
  • Your acquiring bank asks for PCI DSS v4.0.1 compliance
  • Each framework became its own project

You get:

  • Scope and a gap analysis
  • One control set mapped across SOC 2, ISO 27001:2022 and PCI DSS v4.0.1, with the Statement of Applicability
  • An evidence plan and owners
  • An internal audit rehearsal
  • Help choosing the auditor; the audit itself stays with an independent firm

Duration and format: 3 to 6 months. Remote, with workshops on site.

Built on: AICPA Trust Services Criteria; ISO/IEC 27001:2022; PCI DSS v4.0.1 (2024).

Fee: per diem rate; number of days agreed in writing before work starts.

Bilingual Policy and Standards Suite

A complete set of policies and standards your auditors accept and your Quebec teams can read in French, from one master, at the same version in both languages.

Call us when:

  • Your policies exist in one language only, or not at all
  • A customer, an insurer or an auditor asks for your standards, not only your policies
  • Your policies were written for another company, or for another decade

You get:

  • Policies that state intent, and standards under them that set binding, testable requirements, with procedures where needed
  • Every requirement mapped to NIST CSF 2.0, the CIS Controls, ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS, Law 25 and PIPEDA
  • French and English produced from one master, with the same document numbers and versions
  • An approval workflow, a revision history and a review calendar

Duration and format: 8 to 12 weeks. Remote, with review workshops.

Built on: ISO/IEC 27001:2022; NIST CSF 2.0 (2024); Charter of the French Language, section 41.

Fee: fixed, agreed in writing before work starts.

Standard Implementation, One Standard at a Time

One standard moved from paper to daily practice, with the first evidence an auditor will ask for.

Call us when:

  • A standard exists on paper but not in practice
  • An audit finding, an insurer or a customer points at one domain
  • You want progress you can show without launching a large program

You get:

  • A gap assessment of the standard against what actually happens, requirement by requirement
  • The registers, forms, reviews and records the standard requires, set up with their owners
  • The first cycle of evidence: a completed review, a signed recertification, a filed test
  • A handover so your team runs it, and a short report to management

Standards you can start with:

  • Vendor and third-party risk
  • Identity and privileged access
  • Backup, recovery and restore testing
  • Incident response and breach notification
  • Vulnerability and patch management
  • Logging and monitoring
  • Data classification and handling
  • Records retention and secure disposal
  • Artificial intelligence use
  • Endpoint, mobile and wearable devices
  • Cloud security
  • Security awareness and training

Duration and format: 3 to 6 weeks per standard. On site and remote, with the owners of the standard.

Built on: NIST CSF 2.0 (2024); CIS Controls v8.1 (2024); ISO/IEC 27001:2022.

Fee: per diem rate; number of days agreed in writing before work starts.

Track record

  • Built a Law 25 privacy program and a governance model with policies and standards supporting Law 25, PIPEDA, NIST CSF, CIS, PCI DSS and SOC 2, for a Quebec utility and an Ontario home-services company (2025 to 2026).
  • Built the security function of a 2,000-person software firm from scratch and raised its CIS maturity from 1.4 to 2.6 in ten months; led the ISO 27001 certification of its SaaS offering (2015 to 2018).
  • Cut vulnerabilities 76 percent across 161 sites and achieved SOC 2 Type 2, the condition to win a contract above one million dollars (manufacturing group, 2022 to 2025).
  • Privacy Officer at two organizations, including GDPR obligations for European employee data held in Canadian systems (2021 to 2025).
  • Health Canada GMP validation of IT systems in a pharmaceutical subsidiary (1999 to 2014).

Facts to know

  • Under Law 25, administrative penalties reach 10 million dollars or 2 percent of worldwide turnover, and penal fines 25 million dollars or 4 percent. (Source: Commission d'accès à l'information du Québec)
  • Complaints under PIPEDA rose 109 percent in a year, to 3,044. (Source: Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, annual report 2025-2026)
  • 77 percent of organizations name compliance with ISO 27001, NIST or SOC 2 as a top requirement for their vendors. (Source: ISC2, Supply Chain Risk Survey, 2025)

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How a mandate starts

A 30-minute call at no charge with a senior consultant from this practice, then a written mandate with scope, deliverables, timeline and fee agreed before any work starts. In French or English.

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Other practices: Cybersecurity leadership (virtual CISO) | IT strategy and fractional CIO | Transformation, modernization and Dynamics 365 | Industrial IT, OT and M&A integration

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