Solutions for everything your IT team manages.
IT consulting in Toronto & the GTA. Scale your business securely. No project is too grand.
What are your goals?
Choose the business outcome. Each service page explains the engagement, expected deliverables, and next steps.
Reduce Information and Cyber Security Risk
Identify security weaknesses, strengthen safeguards, and prioritize threats to critical systems.
- Cloud Security Assessment Review cloud identities, resource exposure, security controls, and monitoring.
- Microsoft 365 Security Assessment Evaluate tenant security settings across identity, collaboration, and email.
- Vulnerability Assessment Identify and prioritize known weaknesses across agreed systems.
- Website Penetration Testing Test an authorized website or application for exploitable security weaknesses.
- Operating System Configuration Audit Assess server and endpoint settings against security hardening principles.
- Identity & Access Management Review Assess how users, administrators, and service identities receive and use access.
Save Labor Through Automation
Reduce repetitive work and streamline processes while retaining appropriate oversight.
- Workflow Automation Design Design an implementable automated workflow for a selected business process.
- User Provisioning Automation Reduce manual account onboarding, changes, and offboarding.
- Reporting & Dashboard Automation Reduce manual reporting by defining dependable data pipelines and dashboards.
- IT Operations Automation Identify IT administration tasks that can be automated with safeguards.
Modernize Your Cloud Infrastructure
Build a more reliable, manageable, and scalable foundation for IT services.
- Architecture Audit Review infrastructure architecture for resilience, security, cost, and maintainability.
- Cloud Migration Planning Plan a controlled move of applications and data into a cloud environment.
- Cloud Infrastructure Assessment Evaluate the configuration and operating model of Cloud resources.
- Network Architecture Review Assess network segmentation, connectivity, resilience, and management.
- DevOps & CI/CD Review Assess the safety and reliability of software delivery practices.
- Infrastructure Modernization Assessment Prioritize upgrades to aging or inefficient infrastructure.
Meet Regulatory and Compliance Requirements
Understand control gaps and organize evidence and remediation against stated obligations.
- Compliance Gap Assessment Compare existing processes and controls with identified compliance obligations.
- NIST Readiness Review Assess current cybersecurity practices against a selected NIST framework.
- ISO 27001 Readiness Review Review preparation for an ISO/IEC 27001 information security management system.
- Cyber Insurance Readiness Assessment Identify security control gaps relevant to cyber insurance questionnaires.
- Governance & Risk Assessment Assess technology risk ownership, decision processes, and reporting.
- Security Controls Assessment Evaluate whether selected security controls are appropriately designed and operating.
- Compliance Roadmap Development Turn known compliance gaps into a sequenced improvement program.
Deliver Reliable Backup and Disaster Recovery
Prepare to protect data, restore essential services, and continue operations during disruption.
- Backup Strategy Assessment Review whether backup coverage matches business recovery needs.
- Disaster Recovery Planning Define how critical services can be restored after major disruption.
- Business Continuity Planning Plan how essential business operations continue during outages.
- Recovery Testing & Validation Verify recovery procedures against agreed scenarios and objectives.
Cloud Cost Management
Improve cloud spending visibility and identify sustainable savings without sacrificing reliability.
- Cloud Spend Analysis Understand cloud spending patterns and identify major cost drivers.
- Cloud Cost Optimization Review Identify Cloud configuration and purchasing opportunities to reduce spending.
- Licensing Optimization Review Assess software and cloud license allocation and consumption.
- FinOps Assessment Evaluate practices for cloud cost accountability and ongoing optimization.
What You Receive
Each engagement is scoped around your goals. You receive a written summary of findings, recommendations ranked by risk and business impact, and a practical plan for what to do next. Where relevant, we include technical evidence, diagrams, or an implementation roadmap. Our aim is to build capability, not dependency: where appropriate to the scope, we document repeatable practices and transfer knowledge so your team can take ownership, maintain improvements, and build on the results.
Technology solutions that serve your business.
We prioritize value, visibility, best practices, and high standards of work. Our recommendations account for your team’s capabilities, expected growth, operating costs, and ability to maintain and build on the results over checking boxes.
Independent advice you can act on
- Independent, vendor-neutral adviceObjective recommendations aligned to your goals, not a vendor's agenda.
- Experienced professionals. Accountable recommendations.Analysis by human IT admins with decades of industry experience who understand your environment best.
- Pragmatic planningTechnical details and a roadmap for IT teams, concise summaries for decision-makers, and an executive summary for key stakeholders.
Our Engagement Process
- Discovery: Clarify your goals, business constraints, and the outcome you need.
- Scope: Agree on the systems, data, or processes to review, required access, exclusions, and deliverables.
- Analysis: Review relevant evidence and current systems or workflows within the agreed scope.
- Results: Review the findings, prioritized recommendations, and practical next steps with your team.
Common questions about IT consulting
A few details about how Grandhall engagements are scoped and delivered.
What happens during a scoping call?
We discuss the business outcome you want to achieve, the systems or processes involved, your constraints, and what a useful result would look like. That conversation helps define the right scope and deliverables before work begins.
What will we receive at the end of an engagement?
Deliverables are agreed around your goals. They typically include a written summary of findings, recommendations ranked by risk and business impact, and practical next steps. Where useful, the work can also include technical evidence, diagrams, or an implementation roadmap.
How is IT consulting priced?
Pricing depends on the problem, the complexity of the environment, the systems or processes in scope, access requirements, and agreed deliverables. Clarifying the scope first helps make the work and expected outputs clear before a project begins.
Can you work with our existing IT team or provider?
Yes. Recommendations account for your current environment, existing investments, team capacity, and ongoing maintenance. The goal is to give your team a practical plan it can evaluate and maintain, not to push a particular vendor or platform.
Do you implement recommendations or focus on advice?
The agreed scope makes clear whether an engagement covers assessment and planning or includes a defined technical task. If implementation is outside the scope, the deliverables provide a prioritized path your team can use to take the work forward.
Book a scoping call.
Tell us a little about your organization and the challenges you want to solve. We'll discuss an appropriate scope.