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Sovereign AI Defense: Canadian region monitoring
Sovereign AI defense Canada is always-on runtime monitoring of the AI you ship. We watch for prompt injection. We watch for jailbreak attempts. We watch for tool-call abuse. We watch for data leaks. Moreover, we watch for drift so PIPEDA risks surface before an auditor finds them. Continuous detection. Monthly summary. Quarterly briefing.
WHAT THE RETAINER SHIPS
What the sovereign AI defense Canada retainer ships
Runtime detection feed
An always-on detection feed across your AI traffic. Prompt injection gets tagged. Jailbreaks get tagged. Tool-call abuse gets tagged. Data leaks get tagged. Specifically, every detection lands in your channel with the prompt, the surface, and the next step.
Monthly incident summary
A numbered monthly incident summary. Severity stamps per incident. Trend lines across the period. Named anomalies in one line. Moreover, the report flags any PIPEDA risk so your privacy lead sees it before the auditor does.
Quarterly briefing call
A sixty-minute quarterly briefing call with your team. The call reviews the trend lines. The call covers Canadian threat context for your sector. The call lands action items. Furthermore, the briefing feeds back so next quarter catches what this quarter named.
On-call escalation channel
A private on-call channel for criticals. Alerts ship in hours, not days. The channel covers your contact and our analyst rota. Specifically, every critical ships with a containment note so your team can ring-fence the surface.
HOW THE RETAINER RUNS
How the sovereign AI defense Canada retainer runs end to end
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Instrumentation
Week one of the retainer. Telemetry hooks land in your stack. Log forwarding sets up. Data stays inside Canada. Specifically, prompt logs, tool-call traces, retrieval logs, and response metadata flow to a Canadian collector. Nothing crosses the border.
02
Baseline period
Days one to thirty of the retainer. We map the normal traffic profile for your AI. The baseline covers prompt volume, refusal rates, retrieval hits, tool-call rates, and timing. Moreover, the rules tune to the baseline so false-positives drop. The baseline signs off at day thirty.
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Continuous detection
Day thirty onwards. Rules run live against your traffic. Anomaly checks run beside the rule set so new patterns surface fast. Our analyst reviews the feed daily on Canadian hours. Furthermore, IOCs from the Threat Brief feed land in the rules so new threats arrive pre-tuned.
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Escalation and monthly summary
Criticals ship in hours via the on-call channel with a containment note. The monthly summary ships on day one of each month with severity stamps and trend lines. Specifically, the quarterly briefing books on schedule for trend review. Sign-off ships before the next month opens.
SCOPE AND BOUNDARIES
What the sovereign AI defense Canada retainer covers, what you bring, and what stays out
Inside scope of the retainer
- Chat prompt logs from every operator surface.
- Agent tool-call traces and MCP host calls.
- Retrieval logs from your RAG pipeline and vector store.
- Response metadata with refusal flags and safety stops.
- Refusal-rate drift across the period.
- Tool-call anomalies against the thirty-day baseline.
- PIPEDA risk flags inside the response stream.
- IOC feed wired in from the monthly Threat Brief.
- Retrieval-context poisoning checks on the vector store.
- Canadian collector only. No border crossing.
What you bring to the retainer
- Log forwarding from your AI stack to the Canadian collector.
- A named technical contact, on-call for criticals.
- Architecture diagrams for the AI surfaces and the services they call.
- Sample traffic for the thirty-day baseline.
- Written sign-off for the collector to receive your logs.
Outside scope of the retainer
- Hands-on fix work sits outside scope. A separate engagement covers it and we hand off cleanly.
- Red team simulation sits outside scope. The AI Red Team SKU covers point-in-time testing.
- Full SIEM build sits outside scope. We refer to a partner and we feed your existing pipeline.
PRIMARY METHODOLOGY GROUNDING
Grounded in NIST AI RMF 1.0, CCCS Top 10 IT Security Actions, and OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications
The sovereign AI defense Canada retainer grounds every rule in three primary references. NIST AI RMF 1.0 sits across the control mapping in every monthly summary. The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security Top 10 IT Security Actions sits across the baseline. The OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications sits across the rule taxonomy. Moreover, every rule links back to its primary source. Specifically, your security lead, your auditor, or your board can verify the trail in under five minutes.
References: the NIST AI Risk Management Framework 1.0, the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security Top 10 IT Security Actions, and the OWASP Top 10 for Large Language Model Applications.
FREQUENTLY ASKED
Frequently asked questions about the sovereign AI defense Canada retainer
Continuous means rules run twenty-four seven against your traffic. Our analyst reviews the feed daily on Canadian hours. Criticals ship in hours via the on-call channel. The summary ships on day one of each month. Furthermore, the quarterly briefing books on schedule.
Critical detection-to-alert lands in hours, not days. The alert ships with a containment note so your team can ring-fence the surface. Severity-three findings batch into the monthly summary so noise drops. Moreover, the response time bakes into the charter.
Direct production access is not needed to run the sovereign AI defense Canada retainer. The retainer runs on log forwarding only. Your team forwards prompt logs, tool-call traces, retrieval logs, and response metadata to the Canadian collector. We never hold a production credential.
All telemetry flows to a Canadian collector. Data stays inside Canada throughout the retainer. PIPEDA, Bill C-27, and ITSG-33 alignment hold by default. Moreover, the collector address sits in the charter so your privacy lead and your auditor can verify the claim.
The sovereign AI defense Canada retainer works as a feeder into your existing SIEM. We forward enriched findings into your pipeline so your SIEM stays the single source of truth. Specifically, we ship a tuned rule set, an IOC feed sourced from the Threat Brief, and a monthly summary.
Three months minimum for the retainer. Notice on a month boundary cancels at the end of the next month. The monthly fee is $1500 CAD billed in advance. Furthermore, month one runs the thirty-day baseline so live alerts open from day thirty-one.
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Start the sovereign AI defense Canada retainer for your production stack
Fifteen hundred CAD per month for the sovereign AI defense Canada retainer. Three months minimum. Canadian collector only. The scoping call books in one business day if you want to scope first. We sign a mutual NDA before any technical detail moves. Specifically, the charter covers data residency, the named contact, the on-call channel, and the cancel posture. Moreover, month one runs the baseline so live alerts open from day thirty-one.
Adjacent reading: the Defend trunk for the runtime protection picture this retainer ships; the sibling Threat Brief for the monthly Canadian threat intelligence that feeds the IOC list; the sibling AI Red Team for point-in-time adversarial testing of the same AI surfaces; the sibling Intelligence Audit for the AI readiness audit; the sibling Operations Intelligence for the workflow audit; the sibling Sovereign Infrastructure Brief for the topology brief; the sibling Standing Engagement for the monthly retainer line; the Brief trunk for intelligence products; the Build trunk for hands-on engagements; the Research trunk for named research outputs.