Identity & Zero Trust
Phishing-resistant MFA, Conditional Access, and PIM with lifecycle governance – least-privilege access, continuously verified.
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Security Governance
Audit-ready security across identity, endpoint, cloud, and data – engineered on Defender, Sentinel, Entra, and Purview, and monitored 24×7 by named analysts.
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3public clouds: Azure, AWS, GCP
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Held01 / Overview
What we do
At a glance
Core platforms
Defender, Sentinel, Entra, Purview
Frameworks
SOC 2, ISO 27001/27701, NIST CSF 2.0, PROTECTED B
Monitoring
24/7 SOC, named analysts
Engagement
Co-managed or fully managed
The average data breach now costs a Canadian organization CA$6.98 million (IBM, 2025), and attackers move from first foothold to hand-off in seconds, not days. We build security for that reality: prevent what you can, detect what you can't, and prove to auditors, insurers, and your board that both are working.
We treat compliance as the output of good security, not a checkbox. The practice hardens identity, endpoint, cloud, and data, then produces the evidence to prove it – delivered to SOC 2, ISO 27001 and 27701, NIST CSF 2.0, and PSPC PROTECTED B standards, with audit walkthroughs instead of fire drills. Microsoft-native where you live in Microsoft, best-of-breed where you don't.
How we engage
01
Discover
Scoped, costed assessment before any build.
02
Design
Reference architecture and delivery plan.
03
Deliver
Senior engineers build in evidenced increments.
04
Operate
24x7 managed operations with named owners.
Held · re-earned annually
This expertise is backed by a Microsoft competency audited against real delivery - not a self-declared skill.
About this designation →02 / Capabilities
What's inside the practice
Each capability is a sub-service we scope, deliver, and operate, with the engineering specifics, not brochure lines.
Threat protection & MDR
Defender XDR and Sentinel SIEM/SOAR tuned to your estate, monitored 24×7 by named analysts – with hunting and auto-containment.
Governance, risk & compliance
Controls mapped once across NIST CSF 2.0, ISO 27001:2022, and SOC 2, with continuous evidence – one control set, many audits.
Data protection & privacy
Classification, DLP, and insider-risk controls across Microsoft 365 and the cloud – aligned to PIPEDA, Québec Law 25, and GDPR.
Network security & microsegmentation
Workloads, apps, and sensitive data segmented into secure zones – so a single foothold can't become a full breach.
Cloud & infrastructure security
Secure landing zones, CSPM baselines, and infrastructure-as-code drift remediation across Microsoft 365, Azure, and AWS.
Security advisory & vCISO
On-demand executive security leadership – strategy, roadmap, and board and insurer reporting that aligns risk with the business.
Offensive security & pen testing
Network, web app, cloud, and red-team testing that proves real impact – with a retest to confirm the fixes landed.
03 / Reference architecture
How we build it
A reference pattern, not a template. Every layer is tailored to your environment, constraints, and compliance posture.
Prevent
Conditional access, MFA / passwordless, Defender for Endpoint, Microsegmentation, Secure baselines
Detect
Sentinel SIEM, Defender XDR, UEBA, Network detection, Threat intelligence
Respond
SOAR playbooks, Auto-containment, 24×7 SOC, Retainer IR
Govern
Purview DLP, Controls library, Evidence automation
Validate
Continuous pen testing (PTaaS), Red-team exercises, Vulnerability management
Foundation
Asset inventory, Secure Score, Network segmentation, Identity hygiene
Cross-cutting
Zero Trust
Least privilege
Audit logging
Reporting
04 / Technology
Vendor-agnostic by design
We hold deep Microsoft specializations, and we are deliberately multi-vendor. We pick the platform and tooling that fit your outcome, your team, and your constraints, never a single badge.
The stack below is representative; we work with what you already run, and tell you plainly when something should change.
Identity
Entra ID, Okta, Ping, Conditional Access
Threat, XDR & SIEM
Defender XDR, Microsoft Sentinel, CrowdStrike, Arctic Wolf, Splunk, IBM QRadar
Endpoint & management
Defender for Endpoint, Tanium, Intune
Network & segmentation
Palo Alto, Fortinet, Illumio / Zero Networks, ZTNA
Cloud security
Defender for Cloud, Azure, AWS, Wiz / CSPM
Offensive / testing
Burp Suite, Metasploit, Nmap, Nessus, Acunetix, PTaaS
Vulnerability
Tenable, Qualys, Defender for Cloud
Data & compliance
Purview, DLP, IBM Security Verify, ISO 27001, SOC 2
05 / Engineering standards
We go deep, on purpose
Whatever the practice, the same engineering discipline holds. These are the commitments behind every BITSUMMIT delivery.
Infrastructure as code
Every environment is reproducible: Bicep, Terraform, and Git, never console clicks.
Observability by default
Dashboards, alerts, and SLOs wired in before go-live, not after the first incident.
Security baselines
CIS and Microsoft baselines applied as policy, with drift detection and remediation.
Tested recovery
Backups and failover are proven on a schedule, with named owners and runbooks.
Documented and yours
Architecture decision records and runbooks you own: no black boxes, no lock-in.
FinOps discipline
Cost is a first-class metric: budgets, tagging, and right-sizing from day one.
Standards & frameworks
Built to the standards your auditors check
We build to the standards your auditors, insurers, and regulators actually check – and keep the evidence current between audits.
NIST CSF 2.0
We start with the Govern function – organizational context, risk strategy, oversight, and supply-chain risk – so the other five functions have the mandate to work. CSF 2.0 is the narrative your board and your insurer read.
ISO 27001:2022 and ISO 27701
The operational management system that produces the evidence. The 2013-to-2022 transition deadline passed in October 2025 – we close gaps against the eleven newer controls.
SOC 2 (Type I and II)
Continuous control monitoring and evidence collection for the trust criteria your customers demand.
PROTECTED B / ITSG-33
Canadian public-sector cloud security aligned to ITSG-33 and the GC Cloud Security Control Profile.
Privacy
PIPEDA, Québec Law 25, and GDPR alignment through Microsoft Purview.
One control set, many audits. We map controls once across NIST CSF 2.0, ISO 27001:2022, and SOC 2, so you satisfy multiple frameworks without duplicating work.
06 / By the numbers
Outcomes our clients see
2.4
k
Endpoints hardened under unified XDR in one enterprise engagement.
0
Major findings in the following external audit.
24
×7
Monitoring by named security engineers.
Related expertise
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07 / Case study · Public Sector
Kawartha Lakes Locks Down Data With Purview
BITSUMMIT modernized data security for the City of Kawartha Lakes with Microsoft Purview, baselining four governance domains and rolling out controls pilot-first.
4
domains
Security domains assessed & baselined
0
disruption
Pilot-first rollout, no user disruption
1,200
users
Users across Exchange, SharePoint, Teams
08 / Insights
From the BITSUMMIT blog
09 / FAQ
Questions we hear
What does an engagement start with?
A scoped, costed assessment – never a build before we understand your environment, risks, and compliance drivers.
Can you meet Canadian public-sector requirements?
Yes. We deliver to PROTECTED B / ITSG-33 and the GC Cloud Security Control Profile, with data-residency and sovereignty considerations built in.
Are you Microsoft-only?
No. We're Microsoft-native where you live in Microsoft and deliberately multi-vendor everywhere else – Okta, CrowdStrike, Splunk, Tenable and more – recommending what fits your outcome.
How fast can you detect and respond?
Our 24×7 SOC runs detection engineering and SOAR auto-containment tuned to your estate – built for attacks that move in seconds, not hours.
Do you replace our SOC?
We can run it, augment it, or hand off cleanly – Sentinel content and runbooks are documented and yours to keep.
Can you prepare us for a specific audit?
Yes. We map your controls to the target framework – SOC 2, ISO 27001:2022, NIST CSF 2.0, or PROTECTED B – close gaps, and assemble the evidence package auditors expect.
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