# Knowledge — Insights, Resources, Glossary & FAQ | RedactLabs

> Source: https://redactlabs.ca/knowledge/
> Machine-readable Markdown of this page (also served at this URL under `Accept: text/markdown`).

Clarity before compromise

# Everything we publish. One record.

Four surfaces, one hub. Long-form Insights, downloadable field guides, a plain-language glossary, and a standing FAQ. Open access — field guides delivered by email.

## Evidence, not content marketing.

The Knowledge hub is the open layer of the firm — what we know, written down, sourced to public standards. The client intelligence report, the monthly Sentinel Brief™, is the layer that is not open.

- **Open by default.** Insights, the glossary, and the FAQ are open — no account, no paywall. Field guides are delivered by email.
- **No listicles.** Long-form, and only when something is worth saying.
- **Sourced.** Drawn from public standards — NIST, OPC, CCCS, ISED — and updated when the standard changes.
- **Written by the people who do the work.** Senior engineers, not a content desk.

## Four surfaces. One hub.

Insights

### Writing on what actually matters.

Long-form on cybersecurity, charity-sector compliance, and Canadian IT operations — from the engineers running the environments.

- LATEST · NIST CSF 2.0 for Canadian SMBs — what's actually new · May 2026 · Compliance PIPEDA, Quebec Law 25, PHIPA — a privacy primer for Canadian nonprofits · Apr 2026 · Compliance

Resources

### Field-tested guides. Free.

Playbooks and checklists drawn from active engagement work — written for the operator running the environment, not the auditor signing off on it.

- 3 LIVE · Charity Cybersecurity Posture Checklist — 7 pp DMARC Configuration Guide for Canadian SMBs — 8 pp PIPEDA Breach Response Playbook — 8 pp
- IN PROGRESS · NIST CSF 2.0 checklist for charities · Quebec Law 25 readiness · venue-IT segmentation reference architecture

Glossary

### Cybersecurity and compliance, in plain language.

The terminology you will meet in cybersecurity, IT, and Canadian compliance work — defined for people who have to use the words, not pass an exam.

- 20+ TERMS · 4 SECTIONS · Frameworks & standards · Canadian privacy law · Technical controls · Email authentication

FAQ

### Questions, answered.

How we engage, what it costs, how fast we start, how we operate. Plainly stated.

- 10 QUESTIONS · 3 SECTIONS · Engagement & pricing · Security specifics · Operations & infrastructure

## Read what we've shipped.

The Knowledge hub is the published record. The case studies are the operational one — anonymized engagements, with the before/after metrics each one moved.

## Capability and contact

Identify. Prioritize. Reduce. Verify. Clarity before compromise.

Built and managed by RedactLabs. [contact@redactlabs.ca](mailto:contact@redactlabs.ca) Toronto, ON