Inside The Solutioners
Meet the team keeping Canadian businesses online and resilient against ransomware crews.
The Solutioners
Why Us
Canadian-led, community-focused, and operationally rigorous. Discover who we are and how we protect your business.
Our Philosophy
We believe cybersecurity is not just about tools—it's about people, process, and resilience. Since our inception, we have been dedicated to providing big-league security scaled for Canadian SMBs. Our approach is transparent, direct, and outcome-focused.
Why The Solutioners?
Discover our unique approach to Canadian cybersecurity.
Our Mission & Values
See how we protect what matters most.
Case Studies
Success Stories
Deep dives into real incidents and compliance transformations that show how Solutioners engineers recovery, trust, and long-term resilience.
Success Story: Surviving Ransomware
Immutable backups defeated a “Play” ransomware attack
Immutable backups and rehearsed drills kept a Canadian operator online while Play ransomware tried to shut everything down.
Immutable backups defeated a “Play” ransomware attack
Immutable backups and rehearsed drills kept a Canadian operator online while Play ransomware tried to shut everything down.
In 2024, the Play Ransomware group targeted a Canadian organization, encrypting production systems in a double extortion attempt to halt core operations.
Success Story: Rebuilding After DoppelPaymer
Remote isolation became the launchpad for full operational recovery
An isolated remote site became the blueprint for restoring authentication, data, and revenue in a DoppelPaymer outbreak—without paying ransom.
Remote isolation became the launchpad for full operational recovery
An isolated remote site became the blueprint for restoring authentication, data, and revenue in a DoppelPaymer outbreak—without paying ransom.
In 2020, a Canadian enterprise experienced a widespread ransomware attack that encrypted critical infrastructure and backups across multiple locations.
Success Story: Compliance Automation & Framework Harmony
How Solutioners GRC engineers transformed governance for finance, software, and giga-project clients
Automated evidence, harmonised frameworks, and risk-aware dashboards delivered compliance agility across the GCC, Riyadh, Toronto, and Vision 2030 programmes.
How Solutioners GRC engineers transformed governance for finance, software, and giga-project clients
Automated evidence, harmonised frameworks, and risk-aware dashboards delivered compliance agility across the GCC, Riyadh, Toronto, and Vision 2030 programmes.
Manual spreadsheets and siloed registers kept three organisations in constant audit scramble. Solutioners deployed modern GRC operations so teams could prove control effectiveness, satisfy regulators, and keep innovation on track.
Jawad Khalil
Chief Information Security Officer & Partner
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Jawad Khalil
Chief Information Security Officer & Partner
Leads incident response, security architecture, and SOC programmes. Board-ready guidance mapping risk to business outcomes.
Mariana Joseph
Director of Sales
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Mariana Joseph
Director of Sales
Client-centred engagement turning security outcomes into clear business value for Canadian SMBs.
Hikmat Khan
Lead Network Security Architect
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Hikmat Khan
Lead Network Security Architect
Dual CCIE. Designs high‑performance, resilient network security estates and zero‑trust backbones.
Becky Shah
AI & Data Engineering Lead
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Becky Shah
AI & Data Engineering Lead
Builds AI‑powered security analytics, access governance automation, and operational data pipelines.
Nasir Teherany
Director, AI & Cyber Strategy
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Nasir Teherany
Director, AI & Cyber Strategy
25-year broadcast-to-security leader guiding responsible AI governance, cyber resilience, and human-centred automation programmes.
Muhammad Bilal Khan
Senior Enterprise Account Manager
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Muhammad Bilal Khan
Senior Enterprise Account Manager
Relationship‑driven delivery ensuring solutions align with client objectives and constraints.
Community Impact
Cyber resilience for the communities we live in.
The Soultioners reinvests talent and tooling across Toronto, Vancouver, Québec, and our Middle East partners. We help non-profits, faith groups, and senior associations keep vulnerable community members safe from cyber-enabled scams.
- Pro bono ArchiveX deployments for registered charities and not-for-profits that handle sensitive client data.
- Elder cyber awareness clinics covering phishing, identity theft, and financial scam defences across our Canadian and Middle East hubs.
- Consulting office hours for community leaders and small organisations that need a trusted security sounding board.
Upcoming initiatives
- • Quarterly "Cyber Safety for Elders" workshops (Toronto, Vancouver, Québec City, Dubai)
- • Free scam-response hotline for senior residences and community centres
- • Volunteer response team supporting non-profits during breach triage
Need help? Email csr@thesolutioners.ca
Global Reach
Global Operations
Boots on the ground
Reliable Canadian and Middle East personnel for seamless services. We operate around the clock with localized teams ensuring that when you need us, we are there—physically and digitally.
Innovation
Proprietary IP
Technology built to solve resilience challenges.
Archive X
The ArchiveX Immutable Recovery Platform provides an unbreakable safety net. Designed to withstand ransomware encryption, it ensures that no matter the attack vector, your business can recover without paying a ransom.
- Air-gapped architecture
- Rapid restore capabilities
- Verified data integrity
Beta Access
Shadow AI
Our risk and compliance tool with automated monitoring. It is designed to notify, warn, and report on security posture gaps in real-time, leveraging agentic AI to assist CISOs and Risk Managers.
"An AI analyst that never sleeps."
ZynCrypt
ZynCrypt protects sensitive emails by:
- Converting the email into a password-protected PDF
- Sending the encrypted PDF to the recipient
- Sending a one-time passcode (OTP) separately to the sender
- Requiring the sender to share the OTP with the recipient through a different channel
Compliance & Risk Center
AI Lab Security Oversight