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Proactive Cybersecurity & Threat Intelligence

CRA’s experts take an intelligence-led, test-driven approach to cybersecurity, combining threat intelligence, proactive threat hunting, and targeted assessments to identify vulnerabilities, validate real-world risk, and prioritize remediation before threats materialize.

Unlike traditional, reactive security models, this approach assumes threats are already evolving. By continuously analyzing attacker behavior and simulating real-world attack scenarios, CRA helps organizations move beyond theoretical risk to focus on exposures that materially impact operations, data, and reputation. The result is a prioritized, evidence-based roadmap that enables teams to act quickly, strengthen defenses, and reduce the likelihood and impact of a breach.

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Engagements

  • 01
    Investigated 90,000-attempt cyberattack on credit union platform
    The challenge In February 2025, multiple Canadian credit unions reported unexpected user lockouts from their payment processing application. The application...
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  • 02
    Remediated web server compromise for 200+ hosted sites
    The challenge: A client’s web server hosting over 200 websites was actively compromised. The threat actor defaced home pages across all hosted sites, creating...
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  • 03
    Restored school operations through ransomware incident response
    The challenge An educational institution experienced a ransomware attack that resulted in a partial network shutdown and the exfiltration of sensitive...
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