MERGER & ACQUISITION (M&A) SECURITY SERVICES

Know the Cyber Risks
of a Target Company
Before You Acquire It

When acquiring a company, you want to ensure you’re not also acquiring a breach. Our experts will help you go beyond documentation review to truly evaluate the target company’s vulnerabilities and risk of being compromised by a cyber-attack.

Manage Your Risk
M&A SECURITY SERVICES OVERVIEW

Understand a Target Company’s Risk of a Damaging Security Compromise

For Merger & Acquisition (M&A) transactions, it’s critical to understand the target company’s vulnerabilities and the potential scope of damage from a security compromise. It’s also important to understand the effectiveness of the target’s existing cybersecurity controls.

We help acquiring organizations:

Assess the Quality of the Target’s Cybersecurity Defenses, Risks and Cybersecurity Maturity

Provide Ongoing Assessments, Security Remediation and Monitoring Services to Refine Your Security

M&A SECURITY SERVICES METHODOLOGY

We Evaluate Your Target Company’s Cybersecurity Posture

An appropriate M&A cyber due diligence approach combines information discovery with focused interviews, analysis of security technologies and capabilities and technical security assessments
supported by documentation reviews.

Our team examines the target company’s digital assets and network through:

  • Pre-acquisition security assessment planning
  • Cybersecurity due diligence via technical and procedural assessments
  • Risk analysis and determination
  • Evidence of severity and impact
  • Presentation of findings and recommendations
  • Post-acquisition service planning and operations
M&A SECURITY SERVICES: IDENTIFY

Identify High-Value Digital Assets

Our experts work with you to uncover the target company's high-value digital assets and evaluate the relative importance of those assets to the target company's business. 

  • Gain visibility of your high-value assets and dependencies, including intellectual property
  • Understand your foreign exposure and trust relationships
  • Undergo a risk assessment with impact analysis
M&A SECURITY SERVICES: ASSESS RISK

Assess Cybersecurity, Compliance & Risk Management

After all high-priority assets and dependencies have been identified, our team conducts a comprehensive assessment of the target company’s internal cybersecurity measures, prior security incidents, compliance with regulatory standards and risk management efforts related to third parties.

  • Understand the efficacy of your security measures through penetration testing and red team exercises
  • Gain an evaluation of your overall security posture, including programs such as Identity and Access Management, as well as your security architecture and existing tools
  • Ensure sound a Incident Response plan by reviewing prior incidents, IR processes and evaluating for ongoing risk
  • Understand the target company’s compliance with legal obligations and risk posed by failure to comply
M&A SECURITY SERVICES: REMEDIATE

Remediate Security Gaps

Upon completion of the assessment, we will build a prioritized roadmap to remediate identified gaps, smooth the merger and acquisition process and successfully integrate the target company’s assets and infrastructure with your own.

CYBERSECURITY CERTIFICATIONS

Your Elite, Highly-trained Team

More than 50% of our workforce consists of tenured cybersecurity engineers, architects and consultants.
Why GuidePoint?

Highly Trained, Highly Certified

Examples Include:

SANS Cyber Guardian
CISSP
GSE
Logo PCI Qualified Security Assessor

Industry Certifications

GSE
OSCP
OSCE

Offensive Security

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator Associate

Cloud Platforms

M&A SECURITY SERVICES OUTCOMES

Reducing the Risk of Acquiring a Breach

Our Merger & Acquisition Security services are designed to help you assess the risk of a target company’s potential for being compromised by a cybersecurity attack. 

Identify & Prioritize High-Value Digital Assets

Our experts work with you to identify the target company’s high-value digital assets and evaluate the relative importance of those assets to the target company’s business.

Assess Compliance Issues and Security Risks

We assess your target company’s internal cybersecurity measures, prior security incidents, compliance with regulatory standards and risk management efforts related to third parties.

Remediate Target Company's Security Gaps

Our team will help remediate identified gaps, streamline the M&A process and successfully integrate the target company’s assets and infrastructure with your existing environment.

Your Trusted Advisor

Our team works side-by-side with you as your cybersecurity partner.

“GuidePoint Security is basically family. They’re always there when I need them. At the end of the day GuidePoint is always there to help and that’s how they add value.”

Mark Gilman

Security Manager

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