M&A Cybersecurity Due Diligence
Comprehensive cybersecurity assessment and risk analysis for mergers, acquisitions, and investment decisions. Tailored for PE firms, VCs, and corporate buyers to evaluate cyber risks before completing transactions.
In scope
- Security posture evaluation
- Infrastructure and architecture review
- Compliance and regulatory assessment
- Security incident history analysis
- Third-party vendor risk assessment
- Technical debt evaluation
- Security team capability assessment
- Cloud infrastructure security review
- Data protection and privacy analysis
- Security roadmap evaluation
You receive
- Executive summary for investment decision-makers
- Detailed technical due diligence report
- Risk assessment matrix
- Security maturity scorecard
- Post-acquisition security roadmap
- Cost analysis for security improvements
- Integration risk assessment
- Compliance gap analysis
- Technical debt quantification
- Remediation priority recommendations
Tiers
Choose the depth.
Core M&A Security Assessment
$25K
Due diligence on 1 target of up to 250 employees: data-room document review, up to 5 stakeholder interviews, external attack surface scan, incident history and compliance review, and a red-flag report for the deal team. No system access needed.
- subjects
- 1
- employees
- 250
- Sites
- 1
- cloud accounts
- 1
- vendors
- 5
- Data-room security documentation review
- Up to 5 stakeholder interviews
- External attack surface and breach-exposure scan
- Incident history and compliance review
- Executive summary and risk matrix for decision-makers
- — Authenticated technical analysis of cloud and infrastructure
- — Remediation cost quantification
- — Integration planning
- — Penetration testing
Advanced M&A Security Program
$45K
Due diligence on 1 target of up to 1,000 employees. Adds read-only technical analysis of up to 3 cloud accounts and core infrastructure, review of up to 15 key vendors, security team capability assessment, maturity scorecard, remediation cost estimates and integration risk.
- subjects
- 1
- employees
- 1000
- Sites
- 3
- cloud accounts
- 3
- vendors
- 15
- Everything in the Core tier
- Read-only configuration review of up to 3 cloud accounts and core infrastructure
- Third-party risk review of up to 15 key vendors
- Security maturity scorecard and team capability assessment
- Remediation cost analysis and technical debt quantification
- Integration risk assessment
- — Hands-on penetration testing
- — Quantified risk modeling for deal pricing
- — Post-close security strategy and 100-day plan
Enterprise M&A Security Solution
$75K
Due diligence on 1 target of up to 2,500 employees. Adds targeted penetration testing and compromise assessment tooling, quantified loss modeling to support price and escrow terms, and a post-merger security strategy with a 100-day plan.
- subjects
- 1
- employees
- 2500
- Sites
- 5
- cloud accounts
- 5
- vendors
- 30
- Everything in the Advanced tier
- Targeted external and internal penetration testing
- Compromise assessment of the target environment
- Quantified risk and remediation cost model
- Post-acquisition security roadmap and 100-day integration plan
- Deal-team and board briefing
- — Execution of post-close remediation
- — Legal or regulatory opinions
- — More than 1 target entity (each scoped separately)
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What's inside this engagement
Phase by phase.
How a security assessment engagement runs, what happens in each phase and what you see. Exact scope, tier and timeline are fixed in your proposal and SOW.
01Scoping
Systems, sites, stakeholders and the question the assessment must answer.
You see · Your objectives and constraints.
02Discovery & evidence
Documents, configurations and interviews, plus technical testing where the service includes it.
You see · Access and time with key people.
03Analysis
Findings rated by risk to your business, not by a generic score.
You see · A prioritized view of your risk.
04Report & debrief
Executive summary, findings and a remediation roadmap, walked through with your team.
You see · The report and the debrief.
Commercials
From first call to final report.
- 01
Scoping call
A practitioner, not a salesperson, walks through targets, constraints and what a good outcome looks like for you.
- 02
Proposal & rules of engagement
A fixed-scope proposal with tier, price and deliverables. Rules of engagement, contacts and out-of-bounds systems are agreed in writing.
- 03
Sign, then start
MSA and SOW are signed electronically and the deposit is paid. Only then does testing begin.
- 04
Execution
Testing runs to the agreed plan. Critical findings are escalated as they are found; you don't wait for the report.
- 05
Report & debrief
An executive summary plus technical findings with evidence, reproduction steps and fixes, walked through with your team.
- 06
Retest
Where the tier includes it, we verify your fixes and reissue the report, so auditors and customers see the issues closed.
Timelines are set per engagement in the SOW.
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