CACountry-specific compliance
GateTest for Canada
PIPEDA is the federal floor; Bill C-26 (the Critical Cyber Systems Protection Act) is layering critical-infrastructure obligations on top. GateTest's 122 modules cover the technical-control findings the OPC and CSE assessors look for under both regimes.
What devs in Canada build with
Stack and host shapes we see across the Canada dev market — GateTest is tuned for all of them.
The 3 modules most relevant in Canada
A Full scan runs every one of the 122 modules that applies to your repository — these three are the highest-signal for PIPEDA + Bill C-26.
secretsSecurityAWS keys, GitHub tokens, Stripe keys, passwords, private keys, DB strings — caught before commit.
logPiiSecurityCredentials, tokens, request bodies and sensitive identifiers logged in plaintext.
dependenciesSecuritySupply-chain hygiene across npm, pip, Pipenv, Poetry, go.mod, Cargo, Bundler, Composer, Maven, Gradle.
PIPEDA + Bill C-26 — what GateTest catches
Each bullet ties a real GateTest module to a specific clause in the Canada compliance landscape. Official source →
secretssecrets module catches AWS / GitHub / Stripe / Slack credential shapes, private keys and password-bearing database URLs pre-commit — the OPC's PIPEDA reports list exposed credentials as a recurring root cause.
logPiilogPii flags PII into application logs — the silent-leak path PIPEDA's breach-notification regime turns into a notifiable event.
dependenciesdependencies flags deprecated packages, wildcard / 'latest' pins and missing lockfiles, and the security module's npm audit adds known advisories for npm projects — the supply-chain control CCSPA explicitly requires designated operators to maintain.
cookieSecuritycookieSecurity flags httpOnly: false, secure: false, and weak session secrets ('changeme', 'default', 'mysecret') across Express, Next.js, FastAPI, Starlette, Django.
errorSwallowerrorSwallow catches empty catch blocks, swallowed Promise rejections, Node-callback handlers that drop err — the silent-failure path that prevents an incident from being detected.
Honest limitations
GateTest is a code-quality + security scanner — not a compliance auditor, and it offers no SOC 2 compliance scan and no penetration testing. It reports code-level findings; any SOC 2, HIPAA or ISO audit needs a qualified human assessor.
- PIPEDA is the federal baseline — provinces (BC PIPA, Alberta PIPA, Quebec Law 25) overlay extra obligations; GateTest's technical findings apply equally to all four.
- Bill C-26 (CCSPA) only applies to designated operators; check the schedule before relying on it.
Who hires GateTest in Canada
Pricing
Starting at $29 USD — one-time, charged via Stripe at checkout.
Try it on your own repo
$29 Quick scan, no signup. One-time charge per scan — no subscription required (Continuous, $49/mo, is optional if you want every push scanned).
Run a Canada scan — $29