Free 168-Point IT Assessment
Find the gaps before they find you. CISSP-led. Framework-mapped. Yours to keep.
Fusion Computing’s IT assessment covers 168 checkpoints across security, infrastructure, compliance, backup, disaster recovery, and network health. You’ll get a written report in 5 business days. It’s not a sales pitch. The report is yours whether you work with us or not.
A written report, not a sales pitch. Yours to keep regardless.
Available to businesses across Toronto, Hamilton, Vancouver, and remotely across Canada.
Book a free technology health check
A 30-minute review with a senior Canadian engineer. We’ll look at your IT and security and show where you’re most exposed.
- ✓ An honest look at your IT support and systems
- ✓ Your biggest cybersecurity risks, ranked
- ✓ Practical AI wins you can action now
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Your IT Assessment Report
According to IBM’s 2025 Cost of a Data Breach Report, the average Canadian breach now costs CA\$6.98 million; CIRA’s 2025 Canadian Cybersecurity Survey found 24% of Canadian organizations were ransomware victims in the prior 12 months. A documented IT business assessment is the entry point for closing the gaps insurers and regulators now require — and most Canadian SMBs do not have one on file.
Fusion’s 168-point IT assessment is a full review of your technology environment. It covers six areas that matter most to growing Canadian businesses:
- Security gaps: MFA status, endpoint protection, email filtering, and cybersecurity posture scored against CIS Controls v8.1.
- Compliance readiness: Where you stand on PIPEDA, CyberSecure Canada, and any industry rules that apply to you.
- Infrastructure health: Server age, network design, cloud setup, and hardware past end-of-life.
- Network performance: Bandwidth, segmentation, wireless coverage, and single points of failure.
- Backup and disaster recovery: Whether your backups work, how fast you’d recover, and what’s missing.
- IT spending: License overlap, unused tools, and a 3-year budget forecast so you can plan ahead.
The output is a written report in 5 business days. It includes findings, risk scores, and a list of fixes ranked by business impact. The report is built for decision-makers, not just technicians. Also, it’s yours to keep. Hand it to another provider or use it to build your own plan.
Fusion Computing has run these IT assessments since 2012. Every one is led by CISSP-certified leadership and mapped to frameworks that insurers and auditors actually recognize.
“In about 80% of the IT assessments we do, the business is overpaying for something they don’t need and underspending on something critical. The most common one: paying for a backup solution that hasn’t been tested in two years.”
Mike Pearlstein, CISSP, CEO of Fusion Computing
Who This IT Assessment Is For
You don’t need to be in crisis to benefit from an IT assessment; most businesses that book one share one of these situations:
- Your IT person left. Nobody knows what’s configured, what’s expired, or what’s exposed.
- You’re growing fast. What worked for 20 people doesn’t work for 80. You need to know what to fix before it breaks.
- You had an incident. Ransomware, data loss, extended downtime. You want to know what else is at risk.
- You don’t know what you have. No documentation, no diagrams, no idea what you’re paying for.
- You’re preparing for compliance. A contract, insurance renewal, or audit requires proof of security maturity.
The IT assessment is available to businesses with 10 to 150 employees across Toronto, Hamilton, Vancouver, and remotely across Canada. Book your free IT assessment to get started.
What Happens Next?
Three steps, no obligation. The report is yours regardless of what you decide afterward.
1. Initial Conversation
We’ll learn about your environment, your concerns, and what triggered the conversation. No prep needed on your end.
2. 168-Point Review
Our team runs the full IT assessment across all 168 checkpoints. We handle the data gathering. Your team keeps working.
3. Written Report in 5 Days
You get a prioritized report with findings, scores, and recommendations. We walk you through it. Then you decide what’s next.
What a Fusion IT business assessment looks like
A Fusion IT business assessment is a CISSP-led, 5-day engagement that produces a 15-to-20-page audit report scoped to a Canadian SMB’s actual environment — Microsoft 365 tenant, on-prem and cloud infrastructure, vendor and license footprint, backup and continuity posture, and user-experience pain. The methodology is anchored to ITIL 4 service-management practice and the ISO/IEC 20000-1 IT service-management standard, with CCCS baseline controls and CIS Controls v8.1 used to score the security overlay. You get a board-readable executive summary and a technician-readable remediation plan in the same document.
Scope and methodology
- Infrastructure audit: server room, network, Wi-Fi, ISP redundancy, firewall (Fortinet, Sophos, Meraki) and switch firmware health
- Microsoft 365 tenant health: SecureScore, Conditional Access, MFA coverage, mailbox auto-forward rules, retention and litigation hold
- License waste analysis: M365 E3/E5/Business Premium right-sizing, dormant Teams Phone, Visio, Project, Power BI Pro overspend
- Backup and BCP gap: 3-2-1 verification, immutable offsite, Datto/Veeam/Acronis restore test evidence, RTO/RPO vs board tolerance
- Vendor and SaaS inventory: shadow-IT discovery, contract end-dates, auto-renewal traps, single-source-of-truth gap
- ITIL 4 service-desk posture: ticket categorization, change-control evidence, problem-management discipline, FCR and CSAT baselines
- Endpoint and identity baseline: Intune / Defender for Endpoint coverage, local-admin sprawl, BitLocker enforcement, AAD sign-in risk
- PIPEDA + provincial privacy alignment: breach-notification readiness, records-of-processing log, vendor DPA inventory
What’s in the report
- Executive summary: 1-page board readout with risk rating, license-waste dollar figure, and top-5 remediation priorities
- Technical findings: 15-20 pages of evidence-backed observations mapped to CIS v8.1 and ITIL 4 control families
- Remediation roadmap: 30/60/90-day prioritization with effort estimate, dependency map, and owner column
- Cost estimate: line-item budget for hardware, software, professional services, and ongoing managed-services run-rate
- License-optimization scorecard: M365 SKU-by-SKU recommendation with annualized savings number
- BCP and incident-readiness checklist: gap list against CCCS baseline + insurer cyber-coverage minimums
- Vendor consolidation map: which contracts to renew, renegotiate, or retire over the next 12 months
Recent engagements
Engagements that started with an IT business assessment.
- Scaling a Design Studio: 35 to 205 users
Zero unplanned downtime through a 4-month phased deployment. - Co-Managed IT for a GTA Construction Firm
60% ticket-backlog cut and 97% patch compliance in 90 days.
Frequently Asked Questions
The 168-point IT assessment is the diagnostic front door to Fusion Computing’s managed IT services practice. Findings, risk register, and remediation roadmap feed directly into ongoing co-managed or fully managed delivery across our Toronto, Hamilton, and Vancouver client base, with no obligation to engage Fusion after the report is delivered.
Need a city-anchored review instead of the national engagement? Fusion Computing also delivers locally scoped assessment work through cybersecurity assessment in Toronto for GTA firms operating under PHIPA and Ontario IPC oversight, cybersecurity assessment in Hamilton for Hamilton-Wentworth manufacturers and clinics, and cybersecurity assessment in Vancouver for Lower Mainland businesses working under BC PIPA and OIPC BC oversight.
Why a structured IT assessment matters for Canadian SMBs right now: Statistics Canada’s 2023 Canadian Survey of Cyber Security and Cybercrime found that only 59 percent of Canadian businesses conducted any activity to identify cyber risk, essentially flat from 60 percent in 2019, leaving roughly four in ten Canadian firms operating without a documented risk register or control-framework mapping. The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security at cyber.gc.ca lists baseline controls under CyberSecure Canada that closely mirror what cyber-insurance underwriters now demand at renewal, and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner expects PIPEDA accountability evidence on request. Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada and the Business Development Bank of Canada have both published guidance recommending a formal third-party readiness review before scaling cloud workloads or adding generative AI tooling, particularly for firms working under Ontario PHIPA, BC PIPA, or sector-specific regulators. Sources: statcan.gc.ca, cyber.gc.ca, ised-isde.canada.ca, ipc.on.ca, bdc.ca, canada.ca.
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Mike Pearlstein, CISSP is the CEO of Fusion Computing and has led IT strategy and security assessments for Canadian businesses since 2012. He holds the CISSP certification and works directly with organizations to evaluate their IT environment and build a roadmap for improvement. Learn more about Fusion Computing.
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