the Canadian alternative to a US-first compliance platform.

Built for Canadian organizations, not adapted for them.

Drata was designed from the ground up for US SaaS companies pursuing SOC 2 and ISO 27001. It excels at that use case—with polished onboarding, 100+ pre-built integrations, and a large customer base in the US tech sector. But its framework library, infrastructure, and interface reflect its US-first origins. Canadian regulatory obligations—Law 25, CPCSC, TGV, OSFI—are not listed as native frameworks in Drata’s public documentation.

For a Quebec-based organization, the absence of Law 25 as a native framework is material. Law 25 carries fines of up to 4% of worldwide turnover and imposes specific obligations around Privacy Impact Assessments, breach notification timelines, and data transfer agreements. Adapting a US-focused control library to Law 25 through custom mapping is possible, but it requires consulting time, ongoing maintenance, and introduces the risk of gaps during regulator review.

Data residency is the second structural difference. Many Canadian organizations—federal contractors, defence suppliers, financial institutions, and provincial government vendors—are contractually or regulatorily required to keep compliance evidence within Canada. Based on Drata’s publicly available infrastructure documentation, no Canadian-region data centre is listed. Sentrix stores all evidence in Canadian data centres by default, at no additional tier or cost. No legal review required to confirm where your data sits.