Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity That Stands Up to Scrutiny

Beyond Antivirus. Beyond Compliance Checklists. Real Defense.

Canadian organizations faced over 70,000 reported cyber incidents in 2024. Ransomware attacks against Alberta's energy, healthcare, and financial sectors have surged, with average recovery costs exceeding $2.3 million per incident. Legacy antivirus and perimeter firewalls are no longer sufficient — modern adversaries use credential theft, lateral movement, and living-off-the-land techniques that bypass traditional defenses entirely.

ByteBak delivers cybersecurity engineered for regulated industries. We don't resell a single vendor's stack and call it a day. We architect layered defense systems — from endpoint to identity to network — anchored in the frameworks your auditors and regulators actually require: ISO 27001, NIST CSF, CyberSecure Canada, and SOC 2.

Frameworks we align to: ISO 27001 · NIST Cybersecurity Framework · CyberSecure Canada · SOC 2 Type II · PCI DSS · PIPEDA

1. Penetration Testing & Offensive Security

Find the gaps before attackers do.

We simulate real-world attack scenarios against your infrastructure, applications, and people. Our testing goes beyond automated vulnerability scans — we chain vulnerabilities together to demonstrate actual business impact, the same way a sophisticated threat actor would.

External penetration testing: Assess your internet-facing assets — web applications, VPNs, email gateways, cloud endpoints — for exploitable weaknesses.
Internal penetration testing: Simulate a compromised insider or breached endpoint to test lateral movement, privilege escalation, and access to sensitive data.
Web application testing: OWASP Top 10 assessment of custom applications, APIs, and customer-facing portals.
Social engineering assessments: Phishing campaigns, pretexting, and physical security testing to evaluate your human attack surface.
Wireless security testing: Rogue access point detection, WPA/WPA2 enterprise configuration review, and segmentation validation.

Deliverables: Every engagement produces an executive summary for leadership, a detailed technical report with proof-of-concept evidence, and a prioritized remediation roadmap ranked by exploitability and business impact — not just CVSS scores.

2. Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR/MDR)

Replace legacy antivirus with intelligent, 24/7 threat detection.

Traditional antivirus relies on signature matching — it catches known malware and misses everything else. Modern Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) and Managed Detection and Response (MDR) platforms use behavioral analysis, machine learning, and threat intelligence to detect and contain threats in real time, including fileless attacks, zero-days, and advanced persistent threats (APTs).

EDR deployment and tuning: We deploy, configure, and continuously tune endpoint agents across your fleet — servers, workstations, and mobile devices.
Managed Detection and Response (MDR): 24/7 monitoring by security analysts who investigate alerts, contain threats, and escalate confirmed incidents — not just forwarding logs.
Threat hunting: Proactive searches across your environment for indicators of compromise (IOCs) and tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
Extended Detection and Response (XDR): Correlate signals across endpoints, network, email, and cloud to detect multi-stage attacks that single-layer tools miss.

3. Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Identity is the new perimeter. Protect it accordingly.

Over 80% of breaches involve compromised credentials. In a hybrid workforce where employees access corporate data from home networks, personal devices, and cloud applications, identity is the primary control plane. We design and implement zero-trust identity architectures that verify every access request, every time.

Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA): Deploy phishing-resistant MFA across all critical systems — not just email, but VPNs, cloud consoles, privileged accounts, and legacy applications.
Single Sign-On (SSO): Centralize authentication to reduce password sprawl, improve user experience, and enforce consistent access policies.
Privileged Access Management (PAM): Vault, rotate, and audit privileged credentials. Implement just-in-time access to eliminate standing admin rights.
Conditional access policies: Enforce device compliance, location restrictions, and risk-based step-up authentication for sensitive operations.
Zero-trust architecture design: Move beyond VPN-based access to a model where every user, device, and session is continuously verified regardless of network location.

4. Incident Response & Disaster Recovery

When it happens — and it will — your response time defines the outcome.

The difference between a contained incident and a catastrophic breach is measured in minutes, not days. We build incident response capabilities that ensure your organization can detect, contain, eradicate, and recover from security events with documented, tested procedures.

Incident response planning: Develop and tabletop-test your IR playbooks, communication plans, and escalation procedures before you need them.
Immutable, air-gapped backups: Design backup architectures that ransomware cannot encrypt, delete, or compromise — including offline and immutable storage strategies.
Ransomware recovery planning: Document recovery procedures, prioritize critical systems, and validate restore times through regular DR exercises.
Business continuity testing: Simulate outages and attacks to validate your RTO/RPO targets and identify single points of failure.
Incident response retainer: Pre-negotiate response terms so that when an incident occurs, our team is mobilized within hours — not days spent on procurement paperwork.

5. Security Governance & Compliance

Build a security program that satisfies auditors and actually protects your business.

Compliance frameworks exist because baseline security controls work. But checking boxes without understanding the controls is theater. We design security governance programs that are both audit-ready and operationally effective.

ISO 27001 implementation: Design and implement your Information Security Management System (ISMS) — policies, risk assessments, Statement of Applicability, and Annex A controls — from gap analysis through certification audit.
SOC 2 readiness: Prepare for Type I and Type II attestations with control mapping, evidence collection, and gap remediation across the Trust Services Criteria.
CyberSecure Canada: Achieve the federal baseline certification designed for Canadian SMBs — covering patching, access control, incident response, and more.
Security awareness training: Role-based training programs with simulated phishing, measurable completion rates, and reporting that satisfies ISO 27001 Annex A.6 requirements.
Virtual CISO (vCISO) services: Fractional security leadership for organizations that need executive-level security strategy, board reporting, and program oversight without the $200K+ salary. Monthly retainer, quarterly roadmap reviews, and direct access to senior security practitioners.

Why ByteBak for Cybersecurity

Most MSPs bolt security onto their managed IT stack as an upsell. Most pure-play security firms don't understand your compliance obligations. We operate at the intersection.

Security + compliance as one architecture. Your cybersecurity controls feed directly into your ISO 27001 ISMS, your SOC 2 evidence, and your AI governance under ISO 42001. One set of controls. Multiple frameworks satisfied.
Alberta expertise. We understand the regulatory landscape facing Calgary's energy companies, healthcare networks, and financial institutions — including PIPEDA, Alberta PIPA, and sector-specific requirements.
Practitioner-led. Engagements are delivered by senior security professionals, not junior analysts following scripts. You get direct access to the people doing the work.
Measurable outcomes. Every engagement ties to quantifiable risk reduction — not vague assurances. We report on vulnerabilities closed, mean time to detect, and compliance gaps resolved.