Incident Response & Forensics
Merger and acquisition support
With today’s ever-evolving threat landscape, cyber risk has become a matter of corporate governance. M&A deals must complete rigorous due diligence to uncover and remediate cyber risk concerns of their merger/acquisition targets. Cyber risks are not just technology problems. They have legal, financial, operational, and board governance implications. Cyber risks are real and present dangers to business operations, profits, and for some, continued viability. Today’s corporate leaders have a fiduciary responsibility to understand and manage cyber risks.
Why choose Threat Guru for your M&A due diligence support?
We provide services to cover the full lifecycle of a deal, from pre-assessment, due diligence, transition, post-deal integration.
Comprehensive services
Using our proprietary cybersecurity risk assessment framework, we perform an “outside-in” review. Based on only publicly available information, we develop a high-level profile of cybersecurity risk based on the likelihood of an issue and its possible impact. M&A managers use these profiles to evaluate deals. These are time-boxed efforts that can be run on individual targets or groups of companies.
An “outside-in” assessment is used as a precursor to a deeper analysis to gather information firsthand using our proprietary cybersecurity risk assessment framework. This includes a targeted analysis of critical risk dimensions such as a maturity assessment of cybersecurity incident response capabilities, security infrastructure, etc. Projects often include review of key procedures (e.g., incident response, 3rd party vendor risk, insider threat) that may have a direct impact on the deal. Typically, this service takes two to four weeks and may involve a short onsite visit to perform professional interviews.
The security score rating and critical risk dimensions provides the in-depth insight required to make remedial decisions and assess the potential extent of required security improvements. Assessments include a full onsite risk assessment and an internal/external vulnerability assessment and threat lead penetration testing services. Typically, this service requires two to four weeks for completion.
We provide design and implementation support to enable the business to integrate or extract an organization, while ensuring appropriate security controls and governance processes are in place. Our experts design required capabilities to manage risk, create new solutions, establish new organizational approaches and governance models. We partner with you, as needed, throughout the implementation process, providing advisory services that help with architecture design, vendor/product selection, and general implementation support.
Our approach
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Technical testing
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Assessments
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Evaluating
- Risk management approach
- Security organization
- Compliance and assurance programs
- Security technology
- Third-party risk management
- Incident response planning and
management - Governance model, including risk transfer policies
- Insider threat management
- Threat and vulnerability management
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Advice
Results Threat Guru Delivers
Know whether an organization deserves your trust in the cyberspace.
The Cybersecurity Due Diligence summary report consist timely and truly actionable insights such as:
- The Security Score & Critical Risk Dimensions
- Short Executive Briefing & Key Insights
- Individual chapters of technology assessment activities
- Security Improvement Roadmap
