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Consulting

Cybersecurity and network consulting for financial services

Assess access, network controls, third-party exposure, and recovery plans around systems that handle financial data and transactions.

Cybersecurity and resilient infrastructure for healthcare

Strengthen access, networks, and recovery around sensitive health information and systems that staff need to deliver care.

Cloud services

Azure and AWS design, migration and review for Canadian organizations: landing zones, identity, networking, backup and cost visibility.

Cybersecurity assessments

Assess current security controls, evidence and ownership, then turn verified findings into a prioritized and operationally realistic improvement plan.

Resilience and recovery

Test whether critical services can be restored, identify fragile dependencies and leave recovery evidence that operators can use during an outage.

Retained IT and security management

Ongoing scheduled review, maintenance planning and advisory support under a retainer, so security and infrastructure work continues after a project ends.

Testing ransomware readiness before an incident

A representative ransomware tabletop that tests authority, communications, identity recovery and restoration decisions before an incident.

Microsoft 365 security and administration

Microsoft 365 security and administration for Canadian organizations: Entra ID, conditional access, mail security, sharing, Intune and licensing.

Managed IT services

Hands-on IT operations during Canadian business hours: patching, backup checks, account and device administration, and current documentation.

Resource library

Privileged access and emergency access review

A worksheet for reviewing privileged access: who holds it, why, when it was last confirmed, and what evidence supports keeping it.

Privileged access without losing the recovery path

Reduce standing administrative access while preserving tested, monitored emergency access for identity failures and major incidents.

Security Operations

Operate privileged access, third-party connections and security evidence as owned lifecycles with tested recovery and shutdown paths.

Emergency access accounts: the control that stops MFA from locking you out

Identity hardening adds dependencies as well as protection. How to configure emergency access accounts so a policy or a lost factor cannot lock you out.

Third-party remote access review

Review vendor and partner access from business purpose through identity, network path, session evidence, expiry, and safe removal.

Third-party remote access: control the whole connection lifecycle

Turn vendor and support access into an owned lifecycle with named identities, narrow paths, visible sessions, expiry and a tested shutdown method.

Cybersecurity Assessment Scope: A Buyer’s Evidence Checklist

Define the decisions, service boundaries, evidence, testing depth and deliverables that turn a cybersecurity assessment into an actionable plan.

Incident-readiness questionnaire

Find the practical gaps that can slow decisions, communications, containment, evidence handling, and recovery during a cyber incident.

Knowledge from the field

Cybersecurity, network, infrastructure, Cloudflare, Palo Alto, Cisco and practical AI guidance.

Network Segmentation for SMBs: A Minimum-Viable Architecture That Can Grow

A staged segmentation design for small and midsized businesses that contains compromise without creating an unmanageable firewall-rule maze.

Practical AI

Apply AI to infrastructure with narrow authority, external authorization, reviewable actions and a reliable stop path.

Practical security and infrastructure templates

Templates for firewall changes, security assessments, incident readiness and recovery tests.

Security and infrastructure resource library

Browse HAI Consulting field guides, learning paths, templates and diagnostic tools by topic, technology or format.

Security assessment scoping and evidence worksheet

Define what an assessment must answer, gather evidence consistently, and separate verified findings from assumptions.

Security logging coverage and retention worksheet

Map the events needed to investigate material incidents, verify collection and retention, and expose blind spots before an alert or outage.

Security logging coverage and retention: design for the investigation

Build a logging plan from investigation questions, evidence paths and response ownership instead of collecting high-volume data without a use case.

Service recovery test plan and evidence record

Test whether a service can be restored under defined conditions, with safe boundaries, timestamps, acceptance criteria, and follow-up actions.

Ransomware Recovery Readiness: A Checklist You Can Prove

A practical checklist for proving ransomware recovery works: what to test, what evidence to keep, and which assumptions usually fail under pressure.

Seven Zero Trust Implementation Mistakes—and How to Correct Them

Seven zero trust mistakes that stall real deployments, why each one happens, and the correction that keeps the program moving.