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24 selected engagement patterns published
All verticals Dental practice Law firm Medical clinic Wealth manager Family office Sports agent Accounting firm Financial advisory Insurance brokerage M&A / Business broker High net worth individual Veterinary practice Real estate Construction Other professional services
Scenario · Dental practice
Insurance renewal audit surfaces credential reuse across four locations.
A multi-location dental practice referred by its cyber insurance broker discovers eleven staff credentials in monitored breach databases days before policy renewal.
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Scenario · Medical clinic
Medical group audit finds provincial reporting obligations already triggered.
A mid-size medical group discovers, through independent audit, that the reporting threshold under Personal Health Information Protection Act had already been crossed.
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Scenario · Wealth manager
Advisor exposure surfaced under enhanced due diligence for institutional custodian.
A wealth advisory firm institutional custodian requires enhanced cyber diligence at the individual advisor level. The audit produces material findings across the partnership.
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Scenario · Family office
Principal exposure audit rewrites a single-family office household security baseline.
A single-family office running the affairs of a public-facing principal discovers the correlation graph an operator would use to construct a plausible pretext against the household.
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Scenario · Financial advisory
Canadian financial advisor completes custodian enhanced due diligence with a documented exposure baseline.
A Canadian mid-market financial advisory firm engages LeakTrace to complete a custodian-required enhanced due diligence review with a documented exposure baseline.
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Scenario · Real estate
Ontario real estate brokerage intercepts a closing-day wire redirect and closes the reconnaissance surface.
An Ontario real estate brokerage intercepts a closing-day wire redirect against a residential buyer client. The audit identifies the reconnaissance pattern and closes the exposure conditions that enabled it.
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Scenario · Accounting firm
Canadian sole-practitioner accounting firm documents cyber posture before an associate transition.
A Canadian sole-practitioner accounting firm engages LeakTrace to document cyber posture ahead of transitioning the client roster to a newly-associated CPA.
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Scenario · Accounting firm
Canadian accounting firm closes tax-season credential exposure before its Canada Revenue Agency filing window.
A Canadian mid-market accounting firm engages LeakTrace ahead of its tax season filing window. The audit identifies credential exposure that would have created a filing-window incident risk.
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Scenario · Sports agent
Canadian sports agency closes an athlete-endorsement exposure gap before a public contract negotiation.
A Canadian sports agency engages LeakTrace after signal-collection activity clusters around one athlete client's contract renewal. The audit surfaces the exposure the collection was targeting.
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Scenario · Sports agent
Canadian sports agency establishes a rookie-class exposure baseline before draft-day media exposure.
A Canadian sports agency engages LeakTrace to establish an exposure baseline for a rookie-class athlete client ahead of draft-day public exposure.
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Scenario · M&A / Business broker
Canadian M&A advisor de-risks a mid-market accounting firm sale with a pre-listing cyber review.
A Canadian mid-market M&A advisor engages LeakTrace to conduct a pre-listing cyber review of an accounting firm about to enter a competitive sale process.
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Scenario · Law firm
Ontario family law firm intercepts a client-directed wire redirect during a matrimonial settlement.
An Ontario family law firm's managing partner engages LeakTrace after a client wire request is intercepted. The audit identifies the reconnaissance pattern the fraud attempt was built on.
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Scenario · Family office
Canadian multi-family office establishes a cross-family exposure baseline before onboarding a new principal family.
A Canadian multi-family office engages LeakTrace to establish a cross-family exposure baseline before onboarding a new principal family, informing the office's standing security program design.
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Scenario · Insurance brokerage
Canadian broker reverses a cyber renewal denial with a pre-binding forensic audit on a professional services account.
A Canadian commercial broker engages LeakTrace to reverse a cyber renewal denial on a mid-market professional services account, using a pre-binding audit as substituted evidence.
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Scenario · High net worth individual
Canadian principal establishes a household security baseline before a public leadership transition.
A Canadian high net worth principal preparing for a public leadership transition engages LeakTrace to establish a household exposure baseline before the transition raises the principal's public profile.
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Scenario · Wealth manager
Canadian wealth advisory firm documents client-side exposure during a book transfer from a retiring advisor.
A Canadian wealth advisory firm engages LeakTrace during a book transfer from a retiring advisor to document client-side exposure baseline.
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Scenario · Other professional services
Canadian management consulting firm documents client data handling before a public sector proposal.
A Canadian management consulting firm engages LeakTrace to document client data handling posture before submitting a proposal to a public sector procurement.
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Scenario · M&A / Business broker
Pre-sale cyber diligence protects the closing price on a Canadian professional-services acquisition.
A Canadian business broker with a mid-market professional-services listing engages LeakTrace to run pre-sale cyber diligence before the buyer's diligence team arrives. The findings surface before they can re-trade the deal.
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Scenario · Medical clinic
Ontario specialty medical clinic documents cyber posture during a Ministry of Health program engagement.
An Ontario specialty medical clinic engages LeakTrace to document cyber posture during onboarding to a provincial Ministry of Health specialty care program with cyber attestation requirements.
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Scenario · Insurance brokerage
Commercial cyber broker restructures renewal segmentation after book-level exposure review.
A Canadian commercial insurance brokerage requests a portfolio-level cyber exposure review across the book. The pattern that emerges rewrites how the brokerage prices, positions, and pre-audits renewals.
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Scenario · Construction
Canadian construction firm intercepts a subcontractor payment redirect during a large project close-out.
A Canadian construction firm's controller intercepts a subcontractor payment redirect during close-out. The audit identifies the reconnaissance pattern the attempted fraud was built on.
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Scenario · Law firm
Canadian corporate law firm reviews client portfolio exposure ahead of a merger with a comparable firm.
A Canadian corporate law firm engages LeakTrace to review its client portfolio exposure ahead of a scheduled merger with a comparable firm, ensuring integration would not create client-facing cyber gaps.
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Scenario · Veterinary practice
Ontario veterinary hospital documents cyber posture ahead of a consolidation buyer approach.
An Ontario veterinary hospital principal engages LeakTrace to document a cyber posture baseline in advance of an anticipated approach from a consolidation buyer active in the Canadian veterinary market.
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Scenario · Dental practice
Ontario dental partnership documents cyber posture before a partial-equity sale to a consolidation buyer.
A multi-partner Ontario dental practice engages LeakTrace to document cyber posture before a partial-equity sale to a consolidation buyer that had been aggressive on diligence in comparable transactions.
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For advisors and brokers
Reference these case files with your clients
The case files above are published for you to share directly with your clients when explaining the LeakTrace methodology. Every case is methodology-transparent and evidence-backed. If you need a version tailored to a specific client vertical or engagement type, request the institutional media kit.
Request the Media Kit → Publication rules. Case files above document the pattern of engagements LeakTrace conducts in each vertical: audit scope, categories of findings, client actions, and outcomes. Presented as anonymized engagement patterns rather than attributions to specific client engagements. No client identity, no engagement dates that identify, no geographic detail below province or state, no absolute counts across LeakTrace's engagement pipeline. Methodology sources are disclosed; proprietary technique and specific enumeration order are not.