IT Security & Compliance · Richmond, BC
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 Richmond. Led by a former PCI DSS Internal Security Assessor, the work produces evidence your auditor, your cyber insurer, your CBSA trading partners, and your enterprise customers will accept.
Initial Assessment
Documented written report within 10 to 15 business days.
Frameworks Used
NIST CSF 2.0, CIS Critical Security Controls, CCCS Baseline.
Compliance Scope
PIPEDA, BC PIPA, PCI DSS, SOC 2 Type I & II readiness.
Coverage Areas
City Centre, Brighouse, Steveston, Sea Island, YVR, Hamilton, East Richmond, Thompson, Broadmoor, Bridgeport
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, CBSA trading partners, and your enterprise customers actually want to see, and it sits underneath every operational control.
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. Cross-Pacific data flows and EDI integrations are documented as first-class assets.
Targeted audits against a specific framework: PCI DSS, SOC 2, ISO 27001 readiness, or a US customer-driven questionnaire. We test the controls that exist, document the ones that do not, and rank fixes by effort and effect.
Acceptable Use, Access Control, Incident Response, Data Classification, Vendor Management, 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.
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.
Cardholder-data-environment scoping for retail at Aberdeen Centre, Yaohan Centre, Crystal Mall, Parker Place, and the No. 3 Road spine. Network segmentation review, vulnerability scanning, and evidence collection led by a former PCI DSS Internal Security Assessor.
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.
Richmond hosts industries with very different regulatory pressure. A customs broker near Sea Island has CBSA EDI obligations and PIPEDA exposure at the same time. A clinic near Richmond Hospital has BC PIPA obligations from day one. A retail operator at Aberdeen Centre handling card data falls under PCI DSS. We tune the assessment to your reality.
YVR and Bridgeport brokers face CBSA EDI integrity expectations alongside PIPEDA exposure on traveller and shipper data. We document segmentation, access, and the evidence pack US trading partners expect.
Retail operators at Aberdeen Centre, Yaohan Centre, Crystal Mall, and Parker Place handling card data fall under PCI DSS. Scoping the environment is the first lever to reduce audit cost.
Clinics in the Richmond Hospital corridor and along No. 3 Road have BC PIPA obligations for health information. We document role-based access, audit logging, and the breach-notification path.
Accounting, legal, and consulting firms in the Brighouse and City Centre towers carry PIPEDA obligations and client confidentiality expectations. Ethical walls and information barriers are part of the assessment.
East Richmond manufacturers and Steveston seafood processors face supply-chain security questionnaires from US customers. We document OT segmentation and produce the evidence pack.
Hotels, ground handlers, and air-cargo operators on Sea Island and Bridgeport face PCI DSS plus PIPEDA on traveller data plus airport-tenant security expectations. We map all three in one engagement.
Every Richmond 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.
Hexafusion operates as a Dell authorized reseller and full-service IT supplier for Richmond 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).
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 for Richmond clients are led by people who have sat on both sides of an audit. We do not subcontract policy work to a template generator. Every Richmond 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.
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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.
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.
Sibling Richmond pages and the Richmond IT Support cluster page referenced above.
