M&A Security Services

Proper security diligence is essential to ensure you’re not acquiring a breach. We help acquiring companies go beyond documentation review to truly evaluate the target company’s vulnerabilities and risk of being compromised by a cyber-attack.

Manage Your Risk

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

For 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 organizations assess the quality of the target’s cybersecurity defenses, risks and cybersecurity maturity. Once the acquisition is complete, we provide ongoing assessments, security remediation and monitoring services to refine the security program and support the integration into your organization.

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We Evaluate the Target Company’s Security 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 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
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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

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

Remediate 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.

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Put an ELITE Highly-Trained Team on Your Side

More than 70% of our workforce consists of tenured cybersecurity engineers, architects and consultants

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