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Consulting

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.

Cybersecurity and reliable networks for retail

Improve security and uptime across stores, head office, cloud services, payment environments, Wi-Fi, and connected devices.

Cybersecurity assessments

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

Microsoft 365 security and administration

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

Practical cybersecurity for nonprofits

Protect donor, staff, and program information with security work shaped around limited budgets, lean teams, and changing access needs.

Security and infrastructure services

Toronto IT consulting for cybersecurity, networks, firewalls, Cloudflare and recovery.

Starter engagements

Starter security engagements

Bounded cybersecurity reviews for firewall policy, ransomware recovery, Cloudflare and AI-agent access.

Starter engagement

AI-Agent Infrastructure Access Review

A threat-led review of how an AI-enabled workflow discovers, recommends or performs infrastructure operations without receiving unrestricted authority.

Cybersecurity and infrastructure for professional services

Protect client information, support hybrid work, and reduce technology risk without slowing down your billable teams.

Managed IT services

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

Cloud services

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

Network architecture and segmentation

Review traffic paths, trust boundaries and failure behaviour, then design network segmentation that can be implemented, supported and rolled back.

Resilience and recovery

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

Resource library

Knowledge topic

Security Operations

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

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.

Resource library

Security and infrastructure resource library

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

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.

Knowledge from the field

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

Security assessment scoping and evidence worksheet

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

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.

Patch management for small businesses: a routine that holds

Patching rarely fails for lack of tools. It fails when nobody owns it. A monthly update routine, an emergency lane and proof that the patches landed.

Privileged access without losing the recovery path

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

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.

Azure migration: what to settle before moving servers

Before moving servers to Azure, map dependencies, settle identity, network and data residency, and agree rollback. A readiness checklist for Canadian SMBs.

Cisco access control readiness before enforcing 802.1X

Prepare identity, certificates, profiling, fallback, and support workflows before moving wired access from visibility to enforcement.

Deploy SPF, DKIM, DMARC, MTA-STS, and BIMI Without Breaking Mail

Roll out SPF, DKIM, DMARC, MTA-STS and BIMI in an order that will not break mail, with the checks to run before each enforcement step.

Deploying Cloudflare WAF Without Breaking Production

Deploy Cloudflare WAF without breaking production: staged rollout, rule tuning, false-positive handling and a rollback you have actually tested.

Firewall change planning with a tested rollback

A practical change-window method that separates validation, implementation, verification, and rollback before production traffic is at risk.

Firewall Rule Review: A Checklist That Produces Defensible Change

A firewall rule review that produces defensible change: what to collect, how to judge a rule, and how to retire one without an outage.

Intune rollout: what to decide before you enrol devices

Before enrolling devices in Intune, settle ownership, app protection, Autopilot and compliance rules. A rollout plan for Canadian small businesses.

Microsoft 365 backup: what native recovery will and won't restore

Microsoft 365 recycle bins and retention are not a backup. What native recovery covers, where it stops, and how to plan restores you can rely on.

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.

Knowledge topic

Practical AI

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

Proxmox Backup and Recovery: Design for a Restore, Not a Green Job

Design Proxmox backups around a proven restore rather than a green job: retention, isolation, verification and the failure modes that matter.

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.

Secure AI-Agent Access to Infrastructure: Put Authorization Outside the Model

How to give AI agents infrastructure access without losing control: scoped credentials, approval paths, audit trails and reversible change.

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.

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.

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HAI Consulting

Toronto cybersecurity and IT consulting for organizations in Canada.

Clear technical advice, tied to the way your organization works

HAI Consulting is a Canadian cybersecurity, networking, and infrastructure consultancy serving organizations in Toronto, Ontario, and across Canada. We help organizations understand their current environment, decide what deserves attention, and carry changes through with less guesswork.

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