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Your Organization.
Secured. Compliant.
Wherever You Operate.

Consultations NovaWave Inc. is a specialized GRC and cybersecurity firm serving regulated organizations across North America, Europe, and beyond. From PCI DSS to DORA to the EU AI Act — we speak the language of every regulator your business answers to.

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🇨🇦 Canada · 🇺🇸 USA · 🇪🇺 European Union
PCI DSS · DORA · NIS2 · GDPR · EU AI Act · CIRO
English · French · Spanish
85%
Average compliance gap reduction per engagement
3
Regulatory frameworks fluency — EU, North America & Canada
10+
Compliance frameworks mastered in depth
6+
Years securing regulated organizations
Global Regulatory Reach

We know the rules
wherever you do business.

Operating across borders means answering to multiple regulators — each with their own frameworks, timelines, and enforcement priorities. NovaWave has worked with firms on both sides of the Atlantic and understands what compliance actually looks like on the ground in each jurisdiction.

🇪🇺European Union

Deep experience with EU-regulated fintechs, payment processors, and financial entities — navigating DORA, NIS2, GDPR, and the EU AI Act. We've helped EU-based organizations achieve and maintain PCI DSS compliance through major infrastructure transformations.

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🇨🇦Canada

Extensive work with Canadian financial institutions and technology firms — including compliance under CIRO guidelines, PIPEDA/privacy law, and SOX/ITGC requirements. Headquartered in Gatineau, QC — we understand the Canadian regulatory landscape intimately.

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🇺🇸United States

Advisory and audit engagements delivered for US-based organizations — covering NIST CSF/RMF, HIPAA, SOC 2, CCPA, and PCI DSS across finance, healthcare, and technology. NovaWave brings US regulatory fluency to every cross-border engagement.

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Engagement Footprint

🇨🇦 Canada + 🇺🇸 USA 🇪🇺 EU Multiple countries 🌎 South America Canada / USA European Union South America
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Cross-Border PCI DSS — South America

NovaWave has audited subsidiary retail operations in South America for a Canadian parent company — ensuring PCI DSS compliance was consistent across every storefront, regardless of geography. When your compliance program needs to cross borders, we've already been there.

The Reality

Most organizations are one audit away from a crisis.

Compliance gaps, outdated policies, unpatched vulnerabilities, and AI deployments without guardrails — these aren't hypotheticals. They're the environments we walk into every day. NovaWave exists to change that.

60%

of breaches exploit known vulnerabilities

Yet most teams lack automated processes to track, prioritize, and remediate them before they become incidents.

3×

more regulators are auditing AI systems

The EU AI Act and DORA are reshaping what compliance means. Organizations that aren't ready will feel it first.

$4.9M

average cost of a data breach in 2024

That's the cost of not having a tested incident response plan, a compliant environment, and clear accountability.

What We Do

Security & compliance,
end to end.

We don't hand you a framework checklist and wish you luck. NovaWave embeds alongside your team — building programs, remediating gaps, facilitating audits, and automating what shouldn't require a human every time.

🛡️01

GRC Program Design & Advisory

We build governance, risk, and compliance programs that actually work — tailored to your industry, your regulators, and your team's capacity. Policy libraries, risk registers, compliance calendars, and board reporting included.

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💳02

PCI DSS Compliance

From Level 1 service providers to multi-country merchant operations — we own the entire compliance journey. SAQ and ROC preparation, internal audits, gap remediation, and we sit in the room with your QSA so your team doesn't have to.

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🌍03

EU & Multi-Jurisdiction Compliance

DORA, NIS2, GDPR, EU AI Act — we translate European and North American regulatory requirements into what your organization actually needs to do. We've operated in both jurisdictions and know where the landmines are.

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📋04

Audits & Readiness Assessments

Internal and external security audits — SOC 2 readiness, breach readiness assessments, ISO 27001 gap analysis. We prepare your evidence, validate your controls, and present findings to your security committee.

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Cloud Migration & Compliance

Moving to the cloud without losing compliance is hard. We've done it — migrating EU-based fintechs from on-premises to cloud while achieving PCI DSS compliance two years running, cutting gaps by 85%.

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Vendor Risk & Third-Party Management

Your compliance posture is only as strong as your weakest vendor. We assess your entire third-party ecosystem — reviewing SOC 2 Type II, AoC, ISO 27001 attestations and surfacing the risks your contracts are hiding.

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Vulnerability Management Automation

We design and implement your vulnerability management program — defining scanning cadences, building prioritization frameworks based on risk and compliance impact, and establishing remediation workflows so your team knows exactly what to fix, in what order, and why.

Risk PrioritizationRemediation WorkflowsPen TestingCompliance Mapping
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🎯08

Tabletop Exercises

Real scenarios. Real pressure. Ransomware, data breach, supply chain compromise — we design and facilitate exercises that expose gaps in your IRP, BCP, and DRP before a real incident does. Post-exercise roadmap included.

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🤖09

AI Governance & Secure Deployment

We help organizations design, build, and deploy AI systems end to end — from system architecture and MCP-based agent frameworks to EU AI Act conformity. Security and compliance are built in from day one, not bolted on after.

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AI Engineering & Security

We don't just audit AI.
We help you build it right.

NovaWave helps organizations design, build, and deploy AI systems from the ground up — with security architecture, compliance guardrails, and governance frameworks built in at every stage. Whether you're deploying an AI agent, building an MCP-based workflow, or navigating the EU AI Act, we make sure the system is secure, auditable, and compliant before it ever reaches production.

🏗️

AI System Architecture

We design AI system architectures from the ground up — mapping data flows, defining model governance, structuring access control tiers, and classifying risk under the EU AI Act before a single component goes into production.

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AI Agent & MCP Deployment

We design and deploy AI agents using Model Context Protocol (MCP) — defining tool scopes, enforcing least-privilege access, and building full audit trails across every agent action so your agentic workflows are production-ready and compliance-proof.

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⚙️

Security & Compliance Automation

We build and automate security and compliance workflows — from evidence collection to vulnerability tracking to real-time monitoring — so your AI deployment stays audit-ready, reduces manual overhead, and surfaces risk signals before they become incidents.

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MCP-Based Agent Security Architecture
USER / CLIENT Web App · API · Internal Tool MCP HOST Orchestration · Auth · Security Controls AI MODEL LLM · Azure AI · Claude COMPLIANCE Guardrails · Policy · Audit Log MCP SERVERS Tools · Resources · Prompts SIEM / SOAR Alert Automation VULN SCANNER Vuln Scanner GRC PLATFORM ServiceNow · Eramba EVIDENCE STORE Audit · Compliance Docs SECURITY & COMPLIANCE WRAPPER PCI DSS · GDPR · EU AI Act · ISO 27001 · DORA · Access Control · Audit Trail Data Flow Orchestration MCP Tools Compliance Wrapper
Proactive Security

Don't wait for the incident.
We prepare you for it.

Beyond compliance checkboxes — NovaWave keeps your organization operationally ready through automated vulnerability management and pressure-tested incident readiness exercises.

🔍

Vulnerability Management Automation

"We build the program that finds the gaps — before your auditors or attackers do."

◆Designing and implementing automated scanning programs tailored to your environment and compliance requirements
◆Prioritization frameworks that rank findings by exploitability, asset criticality, and compliance impact — so your team focuses on what actually matters
◆Remediation tracking and workflow design — integrated with your existing ticketing system so nothing falls through the cracks
◆Patch management oversight and penetration testing coordination with qualified third-party testers
◆Compliance-aligned vulnerability reporting for PCI DSS, ISO 27001, DORA, and NIST CSF requirements
🎯

Tabletop Exercises (TTX)

"Your plan looks great on paper. Let's see how it holds under pressure."

◆Custom scenarios: ransomware, data breach, supply chain compromise, cloud outage
◆Multi-team facilitation — IT, legal, executive, communications in the same room
◆IRP, BCP, and DRP stress-testing against NIST, ISO 27001, and DORA requirements
◆Post-exercise gap report with a prioritized remediation roadmap
◆Executive debrief with maturity improvement recommendations for the board
Proven Results

Numbers that
speak for themselves.

Every engagement we take on is measured. These charts reflect real outcomes from NovaWave's compliance and security engagements — framework depth, industry reach, and the gap we close.

Framework Expertise

Depth of hands-on proficiency across key standards

Compliance Gap: Before vs. After

% open gaps remaining — illustrative benchmark per engagement

Industry Engagement Depth

Relative depth across all sectors NovaWave has served

Service Mix

Distribution of NovaWave's core service engagements
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Our Framework Depth
Click any standard to see how NovaWave has applied it across client engagements.

Sectors We Serve
Where compliance
cannot fail.
NovaWave operates in the industries where the cost of a compliance failure is highest — and where our cross-jurisdictional experience matters most.
💳
Fintech
Payment platforms, digital banking, crypto
🏦
Payment Processing
Level 1 SPs, acquirers, gateways, merchants
🤖
AI Systems
LLMs, agentic platforms, automation tools
🚛
Transportation & Logistics
Fleet, supply chain, freight technology
🏛️
Regulated Financial Services
Insurance, asset management, banking
🎓
Higher Education
Universities, research institutions
📡
Radiotelecommunications
Licensed spectrum, broadcast, comms
☁️
Cloud & SaaS
SaaS providers, IaaS, managed services
🏢
Enterprise IT
Large-scale corporate environments
The People Behind NovaWave
Christian Antoine — Founder, Consultations NovaWave Inc.
Christian Antoine
Founder & Lead Security Consultant
GRC · AI Security · Cloud Compliance
📍 Gatineau, QC, Canada
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Christian Antoine

Founder · GRC Expert · AI Systems Security

Christian built NovaWave on a single belief: compliance should be a competitive advantage, not a liability. With 6+ years embedded inside some of the most complex regulated environments across North America, and serving clients operating in Europe — from Level 1 payment processors to EU-regulated fintechs to Canadian financial institutions — he brings practitioner-grade expertise that generalist consultants simply can't replicate.


His work spans three regulatory jurisdictions. For clients operating in Europe, he has navigated DORA, NIS2, GDPR, and EU AI Act compliance for fintech and financial entities. In Canada, he has worked under CIRO guidelines and led compliance programs for organizations governed by Canadian financial regulations. For US-based clients, he has delivered NIST, SOC 2, HIPAA, and PCI DSS engagements across finance, healthcare, and technology — bringing full US regulatory fluency without borders. He has even extended PCI DSS compliance programs across borders — auditing South American retail operations for a Canadian parent company to ensure consistent compliance across every storefront.


Fluent in English, French, and Spanish — and conversational in Portuguese and German — Christian advises organizations where language and jurisdiction intersect — and where getting it wrong has real consequences.

PCIPPCI Industry Professional
CISACertified Info Systems Auditor
SEC+CompTIA Security+
AZ-500Azure Security Engineer Associate
AZ-900Azure Fundamentals
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Whether you're staring down an audit, deploying AI in a regulated environment, expanding across borders, or just want a second opinion on your security posture — we're ready.

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