PIPEDA compliance. Built into your security operations.
Canada's federal privacy law requires organizations to protect personal information and report breaches. Vimy maps all fair information principles and auto-collects evidence — so you're compliant by default, not by scramble.
Every Canadian business handling personal information needs PIPEDA compliance.
PIPEDA — the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act — applies to every private-sector organization in Canada that collects, uses, or discloses personal information in the course of commercial activity.
Since November 2018, organizations must report breaches of security safeguards to the Privacy Commissioner, notify affected individuals, and maintain records of all breaches — not just the ones you report.
Non-compliance carries fines of up to $100,000 per violation. But the real cost is reputational — a breach with no evidence of reasonable safeguards is indefensible.
Mandatory breach reporting
Since 2018, breaches creating a real risk of significant harm must be reported to the OPC and affected individuals.
Record-keeping obligation
You must maintain records of ALL breaches — even ones that don't trigger reporting. The Commissioner can request these at any time.
Reasonable safeguards
PIPEDA requires "appropriate security safeguards." Vimy provides the evidence that your safeguards are real, active, and monitored.
Every principle. Mapped and evidenced.
PIPEDA is built on fair information principles from the CSA Model Code. Vimy maps each one to platform capabilities and auto-collects evidence from live security operations.
Breach notification. Tracked from detection to disclosure.
When a breach occurs, PIPEDA requires you to assess the risk, report to the OPC if there's a real risk of significant harm, notify affected individuals, and maintain records. Vimy's TRO lifecycle tracks every step — detection, evidence, timeline, and response actions — giving you the documentation you need to assess, report, and notify.
Breach detected
Vimy detects the security incident through its battery network. A TRO is created with full timeline, affected entities, and blast radius.
Risk assessed
AI triage scores the severity and identifies whether personal information was affected. The narrative generator produces a plain-English summary of what happened.
Containment executed
Autonomous response contains the breach — sessions revoked, access blocked, servers isolated. Every action is logged with full audit trail.
Documentation ready
The completed TRO contains everything needed for OPC reporting: timeline, scope, affected data, containment actions, and remediation steps. Breach records are maintained automatically.
Every TRO is a breach record. Vimy maintains the record of all security incidents — reportable or not — as PIPEDA requires.
PIPEDA doesn't exist in isolation.
Most organizations subject to PIPEDA also need to address provincial privacy laws (like Quebec's Law 25), industry frameworks (like SOC 2 or ISO 27001), and potentially CPCSC for critical infrastructure. Vimy maps all of these simultaneously.
A single security action can satisfy PIPEDA's safeguards principle, SOC 2's Common Criteria, and ISO 27001's Annex A.8 controls — at the same time. No duplicate work.
Law 25 (Quebec)
Quebec's modernized privacy law with stricter requirements than PIPEDA — including privacy impact assessments and mandatory data inventory. Vimy maps both simultaneously.
See Law 25 coverage →SOC 2 Type II
Privacy is one of SOC 2's five Trust Services Criteria. PIPEDA evidence feeds directly into SOC 2 privacy controls — no re-collection, no duplication.
See SOC 2 coverage →CPCSC (Bill C-26)
Critical infrastructure operators face additional cyber obligations. PIPEDA and CPCSC share incident reporting requirements — Vimy handles both from a single evidence stream.
See CPCSC coverage →Your compliance tool should be compliant too.
If your security and compliance platform stores Canadian personal information on US servers, you've introduced a PIPEDA risk into your compliance stack. US law enforcement can compel access to data under US jurisdiction — regardless of Canadian privacy commitments.
Vimy eliminates this risk entirely. 100% Canadian infrastructure. Zero US subprocessors. AI inference on Canadian GPUs. Your PIPEDA compliance tool is itself PIPEDA compliant.
PIPEDA evidence and breach notification tracking are included in all Vimy plans — including Sentinel.
Additional compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST CSF) require Bastion or above.
See Plans →Common questions about PIPEDA with Vimy.
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