Cyber Due Diligence for Mergers & Acquisitions
Before you buy the company, know whether you're also buying a breach.
An acquisition inherits everything, including the intrusion the target doesn't know about and the technical debt they didn't disclose. A clean financial model can hide a security liability large enough to change the price — or kill the deal.
I assess the target's real security posture inside deal timelines and give the deal team a number, not a vibe. What is the actual exposure, is there evidence of an existing compromise, and what will it cost to bring the asset to standard after close? That belongs in the valuation before signatures, not after.
- External attack-surface and exposure assessment of the target
- Breach-history validation and compromise-assessment for current intrusions
- Security-posture and control-maturity evaluation
- Data-protection, privacy, and regulatory-exposure review
- Product and codebase security assessment for tech targets
- Third-party, supply-chain, and vendor-risk inheritance review
- Post-close integration-risk and remediation-cost modeling
- Deal-team briefing and red-flag escalation within diligence windows
I work to the deal clock and report in the language the deal team speaks: material risks, quantified remediation cost, and clear go / adjust / walk signals. Everything is handled under strict confidentiality appropriate to a live transaction.
Every engagement runs under a signed NDA and, where testing is involved, a Safe Harbor agreement. Legal and ethical, start to finish.
- A diligence report of material cyber risks with quantified remediation cost
- A compromise-assessment verdict on whether the target is currently breached
- A prioritized first-100-days post-close security integration plan
Can you work inside our deal timeline?+
Yes. Diligence is scoped to the transaction calendar, with interim red-flag escalation so material findings reach the deal team early enough to act on.
What if the target is already breached?+
Then you learn it before close, with evidence, while it is still the seller's problem to price. That is precisely what a compromise assessment during diligence is for.
Hire me for Cyber Due Diligence for Mergers & Acquisitions.
Signed NDA and Safe Harbor on every engagement. Projects from five figures to nine. Discreet, relentless, done right.
I only do legal, ethical hacking — under a Safe Harbor contract and NDA.