White Tuque is a new approach to cyber defence and resiliency.

We focus on delivering effective solutions that help protect our partners from today’s sophisticated threat actors and ever increasing cyber risk.

  • Tuque = A Canadian Winter Hat
  • Pronounced /tuk/ or tooook
  • Black hat / white hat…you get it, right? …We’re the good guys.

Big Experience. 
Even Bigger Heart.

Bad days will happen. Protecting your business in the face of cyber risk is what we do. We’re here to ensure you remain resilient and operational, no matter the threat.

Delivering world-class services and solutions supported by industry-leading technologies and methodologies. Reducing risk from cyber threats and fortifying your operational resiliency.

Expertise you can trust

Decades of experience in cybersecurity critical response and risk management in financial institutions, healthcare, government, and other regulated industries.

Robert D. Stewart

Founder & Head, Strategic Threat Intelligence

Laura Payne

Chief Executive Officer & Head, Security Consulting

What you can expect
working with us

Always Work with Top Cyber Defenders

You’ll always work with senior cyber leaders no matter the size of your engagement.

Defend with Simplicity & Efficiency

We deploy tools to your environment to identify where your key data resides, and what software bugs could lead to the next major breach.

Prioritized Human Health

We know firsthand the pressures that cyber incident responders face, and ensure your in-house talent and our teams are supported to always be at their best.

Focused On the Essentials

With years of experience to draw on, we focus on the real risks your business faces every day.

Decades of experience Keeping businesses safe

Our methodology is focused on risk reduction and grounded in threat intelligence. White Tuque’s team of experts are battle-tested and crisis-proven with unparalleled experience in defending against very bad days.

We know how to effectively and efficiently protect your business and its core functions.

Start the conversation today

Our experts are ready to learn about your organization’s cybersecurity needs. Learn more about White Tuque’s risk-focused and intelligence-driven services and solutions.

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Robert D. Stewart

Founder & Head, Strategic Threat Intelligence

Robert is a technology incident and crisis management specialist with over 3200 hours leading critical recoveries and investigations within regulated industries.

Robert has built cyber incident and global crisis processes for the Fusion Centres of two major North American banks. With an extensive focus on operational resiliency, Robert worked as a Global Crisis Management Specialist, leading the technical migration for the pandemic for a multi-national financial institution.

Robert is a threat intelligence specialist focused on preventing large scale incidents and attacks before they happen, with unparalleled experience in incident response: 650 critical incidents within the global financial sector leading to the recovery of over 250 unique global financial systems, with 6000 executive communications and briefings issued, and over 200 post-incident reviews.

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Laura Payne

Chief Executive Officer & Head, Security Consulting

Laura Payne built her career over the course of 20 years at one of North America’s largest banks, including over 15 years working in information security.

Her diverse experience has included providing fractional CISO services, implementing information security governance and risk programs, security operations and security engineering. Laura is passionate about bringing people together to solve problems in an increasingly complex technical landscape.

Laura is also actively engaged in mentorships for those seeking to join the security field and serves on the advisory board of SecTor, Canada’s largest security conference. In addition, Laura chairs the program advisory committee for Seneca College’s School of Information Technology Administration & Security.

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