Mergers & Acquisitions OSINT Pre-Assessment
Provides critical pre-acquisition intelligence by assessing a target organizations public exposure, risks, and external footprint before finalizing M&A deals.
In scope
- Public exposure analysis
- Reputation risk discovery
- Corporate footprint mapping
- Intellectual property exposure check
- Third-party risk assessment
You receive
- M&A OSINT Pre-Assessment Report
- Risk profile
- Exposure overview
- Remediation guidance
Tiers
Choose the depth.
Standard Pre-Assessment
$15K
Outside-in OSINT on 1 target company with up to 5 root domains: public exposure, reputation risk, corporate footprint, IP exposure check and visible third-party risk. No access to target systems, staff or documents.
- subjects
- 1
- domains
- 5
- Public exposure and external footprint analysis
- Breach history and reputation risk discovery
- Intellectual property exposure check
- Visible third-party and supplier risk
- Pre-assessment report with risk profile and remediation guidance
- — Access to target systems, documents or data room
- — Stakeholder interviews
- — Active scanning or penetration testing
- — Remediation cost estimates
Multi-Target Pre-Assessment
$40K
Outside-in OSINT on up to 3 target companies with up to 15 root domains in total: a separate report per target plus a side-by-side risk comparison for the deal team. No access to target systems, staff or documents.
- subjects
- 3
- domains
- 15
- Standard pre-assessment for up to 3 targets
- Separate report and risk profile per target
- Side-by-side risk comparison
- One deal-team briefing
- — Access to target systems, documents or data room
- — Stakeholder interviews
- — Active scanning or penetration testing
- — More than 3 targets
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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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