The Canadian tech industry faces several challenges that impact its growth and competitiveness. In recent years, Canada has witnessed substantial growth in the gaming and virtual reality (VR) sectors. Canada has become a major role in the global technological sector. GRC becomes crucial in the Canadian IT sector to handle issues with data privacy, cybersecurity, regulatory compliance, and ethical technology development. Canadian IT businesses must negotiate a complicated legal environment, particularly with regard to data privacy legislation. For technology companies to acquire the trust of consumers, investors, and stakeholders, it is imperative that they have solid governance processes, risk management methods, and compliance procedures. GRC in the IT industry is also heavily influenced by ethical issues relating to technology like artificial intelligence (AI), data analytics, and automation. Addressing these issues remains a priority to sustain the growth and competitiveness of the Canadian tech ecosystem.
But this makes it a challenging task for businesses to find the right solution provider who could find the exact requirements. That's where GRC Outlook magazine is bridging the gap and bringing our new edition to the Top 10 GRC Canada Tech solution providers in the 2023 listing. The companies listed below were selected by a panel of experts.
Holly Sais Phillippi
CEO
Ottawa, ON
alessa.com
At Alessa, the vision is clear: to rid the world of financial crime. A complete compliance program on one integrated, modular platform is provided to help Compliance Teams meet, or exceed, regulatory requirements and stop financial crime before it impacts their business.
Andrew Waitman
CEO
Ottawa, ON
assentcompliance.com
Assent Compliance is the global leader in supply chain data management. They provide cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions that identify and assess third-party risks, educate stakeholders on regulatory and data program requirements, and increase transparency between businesses.
Mark Rowan
Co-Founder & CEO
Concord, ON
data-sentinel.com
Data Sentinel is a data trust and compliance platform that helps businesses continuously manage their data privacy compliance, governance, and quality in real time. Data Sentinel’s proprietary deep learning discovery technology illuminates the true nature of an organization’s data across all sources and systems, monitoring, measuring, and remediating the data to ensure compliance.
Michele Mosca
CEO
Waterloo, ON
evolutionq.com
evolutionQ was founded to help organizations worldwide with the critical task of managing these emerging risks. The team is led by globally renowned experts who have for over two decades worked in cryptography and quantum science & technology. evolutionQ is positioned at the forefront of the evolving quantum threat and has the expertise to mitigate it.
Robert Herjavec
Founder & CEO
Toronto, ON
herjavecgroup.com
Herjavec Group delivers SOC 2 Type 2 certified managed security services supported by state-of-the-art, PCI compliant, Security Operations Centers, operated 24/7/365 by certified security professionals. This expertise is coupled with leadership positions across a wide range of functions including consulting, professional services & incident response.
Paul Goldman
Founder & CEO
Toronto, ON
itmethods.com
iTMethods DevOps Platform is helping Fortune 1000 and Digital leaders by enabling the tools and capabilities for Enterprise Software Teams to succeed. The mission is to provide the market’s leading Managed DevOps SaaS Platform that enables enterprise customers to build better software faster and more securely.
Jean Le Bouthillier
CEO
Quebec, CA
qohash.com
Qohash finds, tracks, and safeguards the world’s most sensitive data. Insider data breaches typically take 85 days to contain. With Qohash, you’ll receive an alert the moment risky behavior occurs. Know instantly if employees in your organization are accumulating or exfiltrating customer credit cards, social security numbers,or other personal dat
Mike Potter
CEO
Ottawa, ON
rewind.io
Rewind helps protect businesses by providing data backup and recovery software for popular SaaS apps. With automatic daily backups and effortless restores, Rewind delivers peace of mind.
Mirek Pijanowski
CEO
Vancouver, BC
standardfusion.com
StandardFusion is a cloud-based SaaS GRC application designed to make security and compliance simple and approachable. Designed to allow organizations to quickly and easily manage their GRC program, operational risk, manage their organizations controls, control testing and follow best practices.
Shannon Walker
President
West Vancouver, BC
whistleblowersecurity.com
WhistleBlower Security is the only B Corp, Connect International, and WBE Canada Certified company that helps organizations maintain company-wide cultures of open and collaborative communication. The company provides tools to promote anonymous ethics reporting and powerful case management