Canadian alternative
A Canadian alternative to Quest Change Auditor
Lavawall® is a Canadian alternative to Quest Change Auditor for Active Directory, Microsoft 365, and file auditing. It is a multi-tenant RMM and remote support platform for MSPs and IT teams, with patching, security monitoring, Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace breach detection, and compliance built into the same agent and console, fully Canadian-owned, hosted in Canada, and billed in Canadian dollars.
Support comes from ThreeShield staff in Canada, and compliance mapping covers PIPEDA, Quebec Law 25, and more than 20 Canadian laws and frameworks in all.
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What makes Lavawall® Canadian
Canadian ownership, hosting, billing, payment, support, and law, in one platform.
Fully Canadian-owned
Lavawall® is built and owned by ThreeShield Information Security Corporation, a Canadian corporation based in Calgary, Alberta. Its terms are governed by the laws of Alberta and of Canada.
Hosted in Canada
Data is hosted in Canada by default: on AWS in Montréal today, moving to a Canadian-owned hosting provider in Vancouver in Q4 2026. Where a client's obligations call for it, data can be placed in the United States, Europe, or Australia instead.
Billed in Canadian dollars
Canadian-dollar pricing with GST, HST, PST, and QST handled, month-to-month, with no high-water-mark billing.
Canadian ways to pay
Pay in Canadian dollars by Interac, Canadian pre-authorized debit, or Canadian credit card.
Supported from Canada
Support and Tier 3 escalation come from ThreeShield staff in Canada, the CISSP- and CISA-credentialled team that builds the product.
Canadian law built in
Compliance mapping covers more than 20 Canadian laws and frameworks, including PIPEDA, Quebec Law 25, Alberta PIPA and the Health Information Act, BC PIPA, FIPPA, and the E-Health Act, Ontario PHIPA, CPCSC, CIRO, and FINTRAC, alongside SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST CSF, and CMMC. See Canadian GRC.
Quest Change Auditor and Canada: what its own documentation says
Quest Software's legal address is in Aliso Viejo, California, and Quest is owned by Clearlake Capital. Change Auditor is installed on-premises, so where its data lives depends on where you run it.
| Canadian criterion | Lavawall® | Quest Change Auditor |
|---|---|---|
| Headquarters and ownership | Calgary, Alberta; fully Canadian-owned | Aliso Viejo, California |
| Hosting in Canada | Yes, by default (AWS Montréal, moving to a Canadian-owned provider in Vancouver in Q4 2026) | Runs where you install it |
| Canadian-dollar pricing | Yes, with GST, HST, PST, and QST | See Change Auditor’s pricing |
| Pay by Interac, pre-authorized debit, or Canadian credit card | Yes | See Change Auditor’s billing terms |
| Support staffed in Canada | Yes | See Change Auditor’s support terms |
Competitor information is taken from each vendor’s own public documentation as of September 2026 and linked above. Tell us if something has changed and we will correct it.
What Lavawall® covers compared with Change Auditor
Lavawall® covers the change and access auditing work Change Auditor is used for, and more, on one agent and console:
- File change monitoring on servers, file access monitoring, and SharePoint and Google Drive file and permission monitoring.
- Local account and logon auditing on every managed computer, and Active Directory and Microsoft 365 user reporting.
- Microsoft 365 change monitoring and breach detection, with the results kept as compliance evidence, on the same agent as a full RMM.
For a feature-by-feature comparison, see Lavawall® compared with Quest Change Auditor.
Where Change Auditor may fit better
If you need an enterprise audit archive with the deepest data-source coverage, Change Auditor is built for that; Lavawall® covers what MSPs typically need for compliance inside a full RMM.
Switching, or running both
Install the Lavawall® agent on your file servers and computers, and connect your Microsoft 365 tenants. Monitoring starts as the agent reports in.
Start a 14-day free trialTalk to a human
14-day trial of the full platform, no credit card. Then month-to-month, in Canadian dollars, with no long-term contract.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Lavawall a Canadian alternative to Quest Change Auditor?
- Yes. Lavawall® is fully Canadian-owned by ThreeShield Information Security Corporation, a Canadian corporation in Calgary. It is hosted in Canada by default, billed in Canadian dollars, and paid by Interac, pre-authorized debit, or Canadian credit card, and supported by staff in Canada. It is a multi-tenant RMM and remote support platform for MSPs and IT teams, with patching, security monitoring, Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace breach detection, and compliance built into the same agent and console.
- Does Change Auditor host data in Canada?
- Change Auditor is installed on-premises, so where its data lives depends on where you run it. Lavawall® is delivered as a service, with data hosted in Canada by default.
- Where is Lavawall's data hosted?
- Lavawall's data is hosted in Canada by default: on AWS in Montréal today, moving to a Canadian-owned hosting provider in Vancouver in Q4 2026. Data can be placed in the United States, Europe, or Australia instead when a client's obligations call for it.
- Can I pay for Lavawall in Canadian dollars?
- Yes. Lavawall® is priced in Canadian dollars with GST, HST, PST, and QST handled, and you can pay by Interac, Canadian pre-authorized debit, or Canadian credit card. Billing is month-to-month or annual, with no high-water-mark billing.
- Can Lavawall replace Change Auditor?
- For most MSPs and small and mid-sized organizations, yes: Lavawall® covers the Active Directory, Microsoft 365, and file activity monitoring they use for compliance, in the same console as the RMM.
Quest Change Auditor is a trademark of its owner. Other product names are trademarks of their respective owners. Lavawall is not affiliated with Change Auditor.