Cybersecurity Services for eSentire

eSentire has run managed detection out of Waterloo since 2001, which makes it one of the few genuinely Canadian firms in a market where most of the recognised names are American. CDPQ, the Quebec pension manager, took part in its 2022 financing.

Being Canadian is commercially useful and operationally demanding in a particular way. Federal departments and Crown corporations have residency expectations about where data sits and who can touch it. Quebec's Law 25 has been in force long enough that private sector clients now ask about it directly rather than treating it as a legal formality. Serving those buyers well means delivery in French, not translated documentation, and it means people who can sit in a room in Montreal and answer questions in the language the questions are asked in.

CWS delivers bilingually across Canada, which is not something an American partner can subcontract convincingly. For eSentire that means the engagements requiring French delivery or Canadian residency can be staffed the same way as everything else, rather than being the ones that need a special arrangement each time.