Threat & Risk Assessment Services in Calgary
Identify, prioritize, and act on security risks across your organization in Calgary.
Calgary's economy is built on industries that depend on operational continuity. Energy companies managing critical infrastructure, engineering and construction firms coordinating complex project data, and a growing financial services sector all share a common exposure: the systems and information they rely on every day are also the systems that represent the greatest risk if they are compromised. A Threat and Risk Assessment does not assume the worst — it takes an honest, structured look at what you have, what threats are realistic, and what the priorities are for protecting what matters.
Privacy Horizon's TRA engagements start with asset and threat identification. This step is often where organizations discover that their risk picture is different from what they assumed — that a legacy integration quietly carries more sensitive data than anyone remembered, or that a third-party vendor relationship represents an exposure that no one has formally evaluated. Getting that inventory right is the foundation for everything that follows.
Vulnerability analysis examines how the threats we have identified could actually translate into harm. We look at your technical controls, your access management practices, your patch and configuration posture, and the operational habits that often bypass the most carefully designed systems. The goal is not a long list of theoretical risks — it is a clear, ranked view of the vulnerabilities that represent real exposure for your specific organization.
The TRA concludes with a remediation roadmap that gives your leadership team a practical, sequenced plan. In Calgary's operational environment, where downtime has direct financial consequences and reputational ones, knowing what to fix first — and having the evidence to back those decisions in front of a board or executive team — is genuinely valuable. Alberta's Personal Information Protection Act requires organizations to notify the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta when a breach creates a real risk of significant harm. A TRA is the most direct way to reduce the probability of ever reaching that threshold.
Privacy & security regulation in Calgary
Regulator: Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta
Calgary businesses are primarily governed by Alberta's Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA), the province's substantially similar private-sector privacy law, overseen by the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta. PIPEDA still applies to federally regulated businesses and to personal information that crosses provincial or national borders.
PIPA (Alberta)Personal Information Protection Act (Alberta)
Alberta's PIPA regulates how private-sector organizations in the province handle personal information, including mandatory breach notification to the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta where there is a real risk of significant harm.
PIPEDAPersonal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act
PIPEDA is Canada's federal private-sector privacy law. It sets out ten fair information principles governing how organizations collect, use, and disclose personal information in the course of commercial activity. It applies wherever a province has not enacted substantially similar legislation — and, even in provinces that have (Alberta, British Columbia, Québec), it continues to apply to federally regulated businesses such as banks, airlines, and telecommunications, and to personal information that flows across provincial or national borders.
What Threat & Risk Assessment includes
A threat and risk assessment (TRA) gives you a clear, prioritized view of where your security risks are and what to do about them first.
Asset & Threat Identification
Map what you're protecting and what threatens it.
Vulnerability Analysis
Find the weaknesses that matter most.
Risk Prioritization
Rank risks by likelihood and impact, not guesswork.
Remediation Roadmap
A practical plan to reduce risk in priority order.
Protecting operational data in an energy-intensive economy
Calgary's energy sector generates and relies on vast amounts of operational, contractual, and technical data. From upstream exploration records to downstream trading information, a breach in this environment can have consequences well beyond the immediate incident — affecting project timelines, partner relationships, and regulatory standing. Privacy Horizon's TRA methodology is designed to surface the specific vulnerabilities that matter in operational environments, not generic risks borrowed from other industries.
Alberta's PIPA and the cost of a breach
Alberta's Personal Information Protection Act, overseen by the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta, requires breach notification where there is a real risk of significant harm. For Calgary businesses, this means a security incident involving personal information carries regulatory obligations on top of the direct operational and reputational costs. Understanding your risk posture before an incident occurs — and addressing the gaps that would make a breach more likely — is the practical purpose of a structured TRA.
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