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Enterprise-grade security shouldn't require an enterprise budget. Vendor-neutral advisory for small and mid-sized businesses, organizations, and nonprofits across Western Canada — we help you choose, build, and run the controls, and tell you plainly where you actually stand.
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MASK2 is an independent practice with no vendor quotas and nothing to upsell. We assess your security posture, hand you prioritized findings written for the team that will do the work, and engage on the project — not on a forever retainer. Detection, risk, response, awareness, and the custom engineering that glues them together, delivered as advisory and project work.
Security advisory & project work
The practice covers the operational ground a mid-market security program needs — detection, risk, awareness, response — plus the custom engineering work that often glues it all together. Everything is delivered as advisory and project work rather than as a managed service: we help you choose, build, deploy, and run the tools; we don't sit on the alert queue for you.
Security Assessments
Practical reviews of your security posture across network, endpoints, identity, and access controls. Findings come with prioritized, achievable remediation steps written for the team that will actually do the work — not a 200-page PDF that gets filed and forgotten.
Detection & Response Advisory
Selection, deployment, and tuning of MDR, EDR, and SIEM platforms. Vendor evaluations measured against your actual environment rather than a feature matrix. Ongoing tuning to cut alert noise once the tool is live, plus detection engineering for the gaps the vendor doesn't cover.
Vulnerability & Risk Management
External and internal attack surface assessments, vulnerability scanning programs, and remediation roadmaps prioritized by exploitability rather than CVSS alone. We focus on what an attacker would reach for first, not the full list of four thousand findings.
Security Awareness Programs
Training and simulated phishing programs that don't insult your staff's intelligence. Curriculum scoped to your actual risk profile, and reporting that surfaces real behavioural indicators — not just click rates on a leaderboard.
Incident Response Readiness & Retainer
Tabletop exercises, runbooks, and IR planning sized for small organizations and post-secondary environments. On-call retainer available for ransomware, business email compromise, and data breach response. Includes regulatory notification workflows for Alberta (OIPC) and federal (PIPEDA / OPC) contexts.
Cyber Insurance Readiness
Pre-renewal control gap analysis mapped to your insurer's questionnaire — MFA coverage, EDR deployment, backup immutability, privileged access controls. Aim is lower premiums, better coverage, and no surprises at claim time.
Custom Software Engineering
Bespoke backend services, REST and GraphQL API design, and internal tooling built against tight specifications. Typical engagements: security automation, legacy system integration, ETL and data pipelines, and domain-specific compliance or audit tooling — delivered with a secure SDLC, automated tests, and CI/CD baked in. We hand off maintainable systems your team can own end-to-end, not platforms that require us forever.
Advisory & One-Off Projects
Discrete engagements: security tooling evaluation, policy review, third-party risk assessment, technical due diligence. If you have a specific question, the answer is usually a one-page memo, not a six-month engagement.
Frequently Asked Questions
What IT consulting services do you offer? +
Security assessments, detection & response advisory, vulnerability & risk management, security awareness programs, incident response readiness, cyber insurance readiness, custom software engineering, and discrete advisory projects. Delivered as advisory and project work — not a managed service.
How can your IT strategies benefit my business? +
A clear technology roadmap aligns spending with business goals, reduces security and downtime risk, and removes the guesswork from vendor and platform decisions — so technology accelerates the business instead of distracting from it.
Can you assist with cloud migration and management? +
Yes. We design secure cloud architectures, plan and execute migrations, and provide ongoing management — with security controls, identity, and backup designed in from the start rather than bolted on after.
What types of businesses do you work with? +
Small and mid-sized businesses, organizations, and not-for-profits across Western Canada, with particular depth in regulated and risk-sensitive environments. If a security program has felt out of reach for your size or budget, that's exactly who we built this practice for.
What is the process for engaging your IT services? +
Email inquire@mask2.ca to request a free risk analysis. We review your environment, present findings in plain language, and propose a scoped engagement — no obligation, no pressure.
Cybersecurity should not be out of reach. Tell us about your environment — we'll respond with next steps, scoped to your size and budget.