Threat & Risk Assessment Services in Quebec
Identify, prioritize, and act on security risks across your organization in Quebec.
Québec operates under Canada's most demanding private-sector privacy regime. Law 25, fully in force since 2024, introduced obligations that go well beyond what organizations in most other provinces face: mandatory breach reporting to the Commission d'accès à l'information, privacy-by-default design requirements, stricter consent standards, and significant administrative monetary penalties for non-compliance. For organizations operating in the province, the bar for demonstrating that personal information is properly protected has risen substantially.
That elevated standard makes the security posture underlying your privacy program more consequential than ever. You cannot meet Law 25's requirements for protecting personal information if you don't have a clear picture of what you hold, where it lives, and what realistic threats it faces. A Threat and Risk Assessment from Privacy Horizon builds that picture in a structured, defensible way.
Our TRA process begins with a thorough asset and threat inventory — mapping the personal information your organization processes, the systems that handle it, and the threat actors that would find it valuable. We then conduct a vulnerability analysis that covers technical controls, access management, third-party exposure, and the organizational factors that shape how risks materialize in practice. Every finding feeds a prioritized risk register, ranked by likelihood and impact, followed by a concrete remediation roadmap that tells your team what to fix first and in what order.
PIPEDA continues to apply in Québec for federally regulated businesses and for personal information that crosses provincial or national borders — enforced by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, not the CAI. Organizations with interprovincial or international data flows are navigating both frameworks simultaneously. A TRA conducted with that dual context in mind ensures your security program addresses the full scope of your obligations, not just the provincial layer, and gives you a coherent foundation for breach prevention, incident response, and the kind of documented due diligence that regulators and clients increasingly expect.
Privacy & security regulation in Quebec
Regulator: Commission d'accès à l'information du Québec (CAI)
Québec has Canada's most prescriptive private-sector privacy regime following Law 25, enforced by the Commission d'accès à l'information, with obligations that often exceed PIPEDA.
Law 25Act to modernize legislative provisions as regards the protection of personal information
Québec's Law 25 substantially modernized the province's private-sector privacy regime. Phased in between 2022 and 2024, it introduced mandatory breach reporting, privacy-by-default, stricter consent and transparency obligations, and significant administrative monetary penalties.
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.
Law 25 Demands More Than a Privacy Policy
Québec's Law 25 introduced a privacy-by-default principle that requires organizations to build protection into their systems and processes from the outset — not as an afterthought. That means the security controls protecting personal information need to be designed, documented, and proportionate to the risk. A TRA provides the risk intelligence that makes privacy-by-default design decisions defensible: you know what you're protecting, what threatens it, and why you made the choices you made.
Mandatory Breach Reporting Raises the Stakes for Every Unaddressed Gap
Under Law 25, organizations must report to the CAI and notify affected individuals when a confidentiality incident presents a risk of serious injury. The threshold is lower than many organizations assume, and the regulatory and reputational consequences of a reportable incident are significant. A TRA doesn't eliminate breach risk entirely — no assessment does — but it systematically closes the gaps most likely to produce a reportable incident, and it creates a documented record of reasonable safeguards that matters when regulators ask what you did to prevent it.
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