Cyber Due Diligence for CISOs

Protect the thesis, accelerate integration, and turn cyber risk into operating leverage.

If your company partners with private equity, growth equity, or engages in acquisitions and carve-outs, cyber due diligence is no longer an IT courtesy - it’s enterprise value assurance. As CISO, you’re carrying two levers the deal team can’t:

1. preventing negative surprises that re-price the asset and

2. enabling a clean, rapid Day-1/Day-100 integration. That requires evidence, not narratives; operating metrics, not slideware.

The Investment Lens You Need

Cyber diligence is operational diligence.
Identity, recovery, and vendor access determine how quickly you can stabilize the asset, shut down inherited risk, and capture synergies. Strong posture shortens transition services, prevents re-trades, and keeps revenue programs moving. Weak posture shows up as unplanned capex/opex, regulatory drag, churn, and slip in integration milestones.

How thin diligence destroys value.
When diligence is light, the pain spreads: IR and forensics burn budget, customer certifications stall, downtime becomes the headline cost, premiums rise while exclusions harden, engineering time diverts to emergency fixes, and Day-1/Day-90 objectives drift. Even without a headline incident, the catch-up - MFA, PAM, log retention, DR drills, vendor offboarding—hits post-close when the organization is least tolerant of disruption.