Mergers & Acquisitions Risk Assessment
Conduct due diligence on cyber security for merger and acquisition targets
Organizations pursue mergers and acquisitions (M&A) to develop strategic business advantages as a result of gaining or consolidating personnel, technology or intellectual property. Companies, as part of their due diligence, investigate the potential business impact and risks from the merger or acquisition in a number of areas, including financial, legal and intellectual property. But they don’t always fully explore the consequences of combining the cyber security practices and technologies of two different organizations.
The M&A Risk Assessment helps companies evaluate multiple security programs and address compatibility issues and potential security gaps. Proactive CS experts analyze and measure the acquisition environment and risk levels across four critical security domains so you can make informed decisions about how to smoothly secure the transitional and post M&A environment.
Our Approach
Proactive evaluates your organization’s cyber security programs across four core security domains:
- Data safeguards, to examine how the data protection framework helps identify and classify high-risk information assets
- Access control, to review how policies and procedures reduce the risk of inappropriate access to sensitive data
- Threat detection and response, to see how current deployments detect, analyze, escalate, respond to and contain advanced attacks
- Infrastructure security, to understand how endpoints are managed to reduce the risk of compromise