Security and Recovery, Planned Together
Security and recovery planning decide how a bad day ends. CreateITivity protects your systems with defence in depth, centralized threat detection and firewall administration, then makes sure you can recover: encrypted off-site backups, standby infrastructure and disaster recovery plans built around your recovery targets and tested before you need them.
- A written scope and fee before any work starts
- Experienced people run your account from day one
- Reporting built around leads and sales
Brands from the sectors we serve
Industries with a dedicated approach page
Website platforms we build on and optimize
Head office in Mississauga, serving clients across Canada
How does CreateITivity handle security and continuity?
Managed cybersecurity, SIEM monitoring, encrypted backups and tested disaster recovery for Canadian businesses, run from Mississauga by CreateITivity.
- 2 security and continuity services to choose from
- Monthly fees linked to targets you agree in writing
- Fees: Scoped and quoted per project
- Free 30-minute first call with the person who would lead your account
About Us
What you get when we run your security and continuity
Security and recovery planning decide how a bad day ends. CreateITivity protects your systems with defence in depth, centralized threat detection and firewall administration, then makes sure you can recover: encrypted off-site backups, standby infrastructure and disaster recovery plans built around your recovery targets and tested before you need them.
How we work
- Your account is run by people who have done this work for years
- Scope and fees are set against targets, and if we miss them we change the plan
- A short video update every Friday and reports that follow leads and sales
Pain Points
Where marketing programs usually get stuck
Problems that come up again and again when we review a new account, and what we do about each one.
Unsure what the law asks after a breach
Under PIPEDA, a breach that creates a real risk of significant harm has to be reported to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada and the people affected. Quebec Law 25 and Ontario's PHIPA add their own duties. Working that out mid-incident goes badly.
Where to start
Which of these sounds like your situation?
Three services from this line that many businesses begin with. Each page explains the work, the timeline and how we report on it.
What's Included
security and continuity services we offer
Pick the piece you need or combine several. Each one is shaped around your goals and has its own page with the details.
Our Process
From first call to monthly review
Four stages, each with a clear output you can check.
Assess where you stand
We inventory your systems, accounts, firewall rules and current backups, then compare them against the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security baseline controls. You get a plain list of gaps ranked by risk.
Agree the targets
Together we decide which systems matter most, how much data loss each can tolerate and how long each can be down. Those answers set both the security priorities and the recovery design.
Build the layers
We tighten identity and firewall rules, connect logs to a central SIEM, schedule automated snapshots and set up encrypted off-site copies and standby infrastructure where your targets call for it.
Monitor, test and review
Alerts are reviewed and acted on, restores are tested on a schedule and the disaster recovery plan is rehearsed. Each review updates the plan as your business and the threats change.
Security lowers the odds of a bad day. Continuity limits the damage of one.
Most security spending goes into keeping attackers out, and that work matters. No set of controls stops everything, though. A trusted vendor gets compromised, a staff member approves a fake sign-in prompt, or a storage array fails on its own with no attacker involved. That is why this hub covers both halves. Threat mitigation reduces how often something goes wrong and shortens the time an intruder goes unnoticed. Backup and disaster recovery decide how much you lose and how quickly you are working again. We plan the two together, so the systems we protect most closely are also the ones we can bring back first.
- One risk assessment drives both security and recovery priorities
- Critical systems get the strongest controls and the fastest recovery
- Backups are protected as carefully as production systems
- Plans assume something will eventually get through
Know your reporting duties before an incident
Private-sector organizations covered by PIPEDA must report a breach of security safeguards to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada when it creates a real risk of significant harm, notify the affected individuals, and keep a record of every breach, including the minor ones. Quebec's Law 25 sets similar duties for confidentiality incidents involving Quebec residents, reported to the Commission d'accès à l'information. Ontario health information custodians have separate notification duties under PHIPA. We are not your lawyers, and a privacy lawyer should advise on any specific incident. What we do is make sure the evidence exists: centralized logs that show what was accessed, a breach record you can keep current, and an incident runbook that names who decides and who calls whom.
- Logs kept so you can tell what data was actually exposed
- A breach record template that fits PIPEDA record-keeping
- Runbooks that bring in your legal and insurance contacts early
- Controls mapped to the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security baseline
Plan for the attack that goes after your backups first
Ransomware groups targeting Canadian small and mid-sized businesses rarely encrypt files straight away. They tend to sign in with stolen credentials, look around, delete or encrypt the backups they can reach, copy data they can threaten to publish, and only then launch the encryption. Our design responds to each stage. Identity-aware firewall rules and segmentation limit how far a stolen account can travel. SIEM log auditing raises the unusual sign-ins and mass file changes that come before encryption. Backups are encrypted, kept off-site and held away from everyday admin credentials, so the copy you need is still there when you go to restore it.
- Segmented networks so one account cannot reach everything
- Alerts on the activity that usually comes before encryption
- Off-site backup copies outside the reach of day-to-day admin accounts
- A restore order agreed in advance for the systems you need first
Results
What we track for you
Figures drawn from the work this page describes.
- A named senior specialist leads each account
- Progress shown in live Looker Studio dashboards
- Measured on leads and revenue
FAQs
Before you sign
Short answers on cost, timing and how we work with your team.
What is the difference between cybersecurity and business continuity?
Do we need both services, or can we start with one?
Which security framework do you follow?
Can you help us prepare for CyberSecure Canada certification?
What happens if we have a breach involving personal information?
Where is our backup data stored?
What do RTO and RPO mean in practice?
Will security controls slow our staff down?
Does this replace our cyber insurance?
Something we did not cover? Ask us directly
Start here
Tell us how protected and recoverable you are today
A security engineer reads each message and replies in writing with the gaps we would look at first and what a recovery plan for your key systems would involve.
- A personal reply within one business day
- Plain language, no scare tactics
- No phone call needed to get it
Prefer email? info@createitivity.ca
Free review · done by an engineer, not a script
Find the weak spots in your systems before they fail
Tell us what you run, where it is hosted and what has gone wrong lately. One of our engineers looks it over by hand and sends back the first fixes we would make, whether or not you hire us. Marketing and development questions are welcome too.
Contact
Tell us what you are working on
Book a free first call with our team in Mississauga. Bring the numbers you have and the goal you are chasing, and we will tell you plainly what we would change first.
Start with a few details
Expect a reply from a senior team member within one business day. We do not add you to a mailing list.