Cyber due diligence should happen at the start of M&A, not after closing. Many buyers discover hidden security flaws only after a deal completes, forcing expensive scrambling. Embed security assessments early to identify problems, allocate budgets, and set realistic timelines before the deal closes.
cyber diligence is on risk, past compromise. Is there any holes in the system? I'm bringing this new thing into my house. I gotta make sure it's clean. I don't wanna make sure this couch is dusty, bringing in mites or whatever it is into my safe house that will then burn my house to the ground that I have been working on. So I think that's the new one now that I see is that we encountered a lot of that, of clients that had acquired companies. And then as we're doing these assessments and helping the IT and cyber team cover, they're like, I don't know where this came from. And we're like, where, It just came from M&A. And so now my goal is to try and this year is focus with like PE firms, companies that have aggressive M&A agendas to say, let's figure out a way. I don't want to be, you know, obstructive or a hindrance. I can blend in with the system, but let's get some of that cyber diligence at the forefront so we can identify potential roadblocks or hiccups that may, hey, IT, this is coming in, let's make sure, or they know it's coming, or also allocate dollars in budgeting or realistic timelines of what may happen.
