IT security is the assessment, governance, and compliance side of cyber risk. Hexafusion delivers risk assessments, security audits, written policy, and readiness work for PIPEDA, BC PIPA, PCI DSS, and SOC 2 across Langley. Led by a former PCI DSS Internal Security Assessor, the work produces evidence your auditor, your cyber insurer, your customer's procurement team, and your enterprise prospects will accept.
Hexafusion at a glance for Langley businesses. Vancouver-based since 2020 · downtown office at 997 Seymour Street · founder is a former PCI DSS Internal Security Assessor (ISA) · Microsoft Solutions Partner · written risk assessments mapped to CIS Controls and NIST CSF 2.0 · PIPEDA and BC PIPA breach-procedure documentation included · flat-rate managed plans.
Initial Assessment
Documented written report within 10 to 15 business days.
PIPEDA, BC PIPA, PCI DSS, SOC 2 Type I & II readiness.
Coverage Areas
Langley City, Willowbrook, Walnut Grove, Murrayville, Brookswood, Fort Langley, Aldergrove, Otter District
What IT Security Means in Langley
IT security is the work that produces evidence: written reports, signed policies, completed questionnaires, and tested procedures. It is the part of the security program that auditors, regulators, customer procurement teams, and enterprise prospects actually want to see, and it sits underneath every operational control.
Security Risk Assessment
A written report of your current posture against the CIS Critical Security Controls and the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security baseline. Risk register, scored gaps, prioritised remediation, and a phased plan tied to budget. For rural sites, connectivity resilience is treated as an in-scope control.
Security Audit and Gap Analysis
Targeted audits against a specific framework: PCI DSS, SOC 2, ISO 27001 readiness, or a customer-driven questionnaire from a US enterprise procurement team. We test the controls that exist, document the ones that do not, and rank fixes by effort and effect.
Policy and Governance
Acceptable Use, Access Control, Incident Response, Data Classification, Vendor Management, Seasonal-Staff Handling, Business Continuity. We draft the policies, you adopt them, leadership signs them, and they live in a version-controlled repository, not a shared drive folder.
PIPEDA & BC PIPA Readiness
Mapping your data flows, documenting consent and retention, building the breach-notification procedure, and producing the safeguards documentation the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada and the BC OIPC look for in recent breach decisions.
PCI DSS Scoping & Prep
Cardholder-data-environment scoping for multi-site retail at Willowbrook Shopping Centre, dealer-management environments along the Langley Bypass, and tasting-room POS in Fort Langley. Network segmentation review, vulnerability scanning, and evidence collection led by a former PCI DSS Internal Security Assessor.
SOC 2 Readiness
Trust Service Criteria mapping, control design, evidence collection, and auditor liaison. SOC 2 Type I prep typically takes 3 to 6 months; Type II adds 6 to 12 months of operating-effectiveness evidence on top.
Industries with Specific Security Obligations in Langley
Langley hosts industries with very different regulatory pressure. A clinic near Langley Memorial Hospital has BC PIPA obligations from day one. A Walnut Grove manufacturer shipping to US customers will see CMMC-adjacent questionnaires. A Fort Langley winery handling card data has PCI scope at the tasting room. We tune the assessment to your reality.
Agriculture and ALR Operators
Connectivity resilience, physical security of remote equipment sheds, and contractor access reviews for farm operators across the Township's Agricultural Land Reserve.
Manufacturing and Industrial
Walnut Grove and Gloucester Industrial Estate manufacturers face supply-chain security questionnaires from US customers. We document OT segmentation and produce the evidence pack.
Healthcare and Clinics
Clinics in the Langley Memorial Hospital corridor and the Murrayville professional area have BC PIPA obligations for health information. We document role-based access, audit logging, and the breach-notification path.
Winery and Agri-Tourism
Fort Langley wineries and agri-tourism operators carry PCI scope at the tasting room and BC PIPA obligations on event guest lists. Seasonal-staff control gaps are an explicit audit focus.
Professional Services
Accounting, legal, financial-planning firms near Willowbrook and Murrayville carry PIPEDA obligations and client confidentiality expectations. Ethical walls and information barriers are part of the assessment.
Education-Adjacent Organisations
Contractors and research-adjacent firms operating with Trinity Western University and Kwantlen Polytechnic Langley often hold student or research data with FIPPA implications. Documentation is the deliverable.
Compliance-Ready IT Baseline for Langley Businesses
Every Langley business we onboard receives a documented security baseline aligned to the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security baseline controls and the requirements your cyber insurance carrier is asking about on renewal questionnaires. This is the same baseline we apply to our own infrastructure, not a stripped-down small-business version.
Identity and access. Microsoft Entra ID with Conditional Access policies, multi-factor authentication (MFA) enforcement on every account, and compliant-device sign-in checks.
Endpoint protection. Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) on every Windows, Mac, and mobile device, deployed and active before the user receives the laptop.
Disk encryption. BitLocker on Windows and FileVault on Mac, key-escrowed centrally so a lost device does not become a data breach.
Email hardening. SPF, DKIM, and DMARC alignment plus anti-phishing and impersonation-protection rules tuned to your industry.
Backup and recovery. Managed backups with documented retention and quarterly restore tests so you know recovery actually works before an incident.
BC PIPA and PIPEDA aware. Audit logging, role-based access, and breach-notification process documentation kept up to date with the current Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada guidance.
Hardware Lifecycle and Secure Disposal in Langley
Hexafusion operates as a Dell authorized reseller and full-service IT supplier for Langley businesses, with access to authorized Canadian distribution channels for Lenovo, Apple, Microsoft Surface, and networking gear from Cisco Meraki, Fortinet, SonicWall, Ubiquiti, Aruba, and Juniper. Secure procurement is part of the security program, not a sales transaction. Every laptop arrives at the user pre-imaged with the security baseline above, enrolled in Microsoft Autopilot, and ready to power on.
At end-of-life we handle decommissioning to a standard your auditor will accept. Drive sanitisation follows NIST Special Publication 800-88 guidelines (cryptographic erasure for SSDs, multi-pass wipe for spinning drives), every retired device generates a serial-numbered certificate of destruction for your PIPEDA breach-notification record-keeping, and devices beyond economic refurbishment are recycled through programs accredited by the Electronic Products Recycling Association (EPRA Canada).
Who you actually work with in Langley
Hexafusion is led by founder Alex Barari, a former PCI DSS Internal Security Assessor (ISA) with 15+ years in enterprise IT and cybersecurity. Risk assessments and compliance engagements are led by people who have sat on both sides of an audit. We do not subcontract policy work to a template generator. Every Langley client gets an assessment written for their environment, signed off by leadership who can answer follow-up questions.
Our quarterly business review (QBR) is a real strategic report, not a generic newsletter: engagement health score, financial recap, onboarding progress, renewal calendar, and an AI-summarised executive paragraph delivered as a PDF to every client at the end of every calendar quarter. See the QBR page for a worked example.
Why Langley businesses choose Hexafusion for IT security
Former ISA at the table. Risk assessments led by someone who has been a PCI DSS Internal Security Assessor, not a generalist with a checklist.
Framework-agnostic. We map your controls to CIS, NIST CSF 2.0, PIPEDA, BC PIPA, PCI DSS, and SOC 2 in one engagement, not five.
Rural-aware. Connectivity resilience and the security of Starlink-dependent sites are treated as in-scope controls, not afterthoughts.
Seasonal-staff aware. Onboarding, offboarding, and shared-account hygiene are audited against actual headcount data, not org-chart fiction.
Audit-ready evidence. Every control has a documented owner, a documented test, and a documented artefact. Your auditor sees a binder, not a scramble.
Operations partner if you want one. The same team can run the operational cybersecurity afterwards, on the same flat-rate plan.
Request a security assessment for your Langley business
Tell us about your environment, your regulatory exposure, and what is driving the timing. We respond within one business day with a scoped quote and timeline.
From data-collection complete to written report with risk register, gap analysis, and phased remediation plan.
Policy package
Within 30 days
Core policies (AUP, Access Control, IR, Data Classification, Vendor, Seasonal Staff) drafted for leadership review and adoption.
Annual statement of controls
Renewal ready
Audit-quality statement of controls delivered before cyber-insurance renewal, mapped to the standard underwriter questionnaire.
Breach-procedure tabletop
Every quarter
Documented tabletop exercise of the PIPEDA / BC PIPA breach-notification process, with written minutes for auditors.
Assessment delivery times are targets and depend on the speed of data collection from your team and any third-party vendors. Policy templates are starting points; final adoption requires leadership review and sign-off. Statement-of-controls timing aligns with your cyber-insurance renewal date. Tabletop exercises are documented and stored in your governance repository for auditor and regulator review.
Related Hexafusion resources
Sibling Langley pages and deep-dive cluster pages on assessment, governance, and compliance topics referenced above.