A Game Changer in Due Diligence and M&A's - Cybersecurity Maturity Assessments

It's hard to forget moments as crucial as when a $1.5 billion deal slips through your fingers. Companies looking to be acquired are learning first-hand how dramatic the effects of poor cyber defense could be on an investment. Our speakers learned first-hand how a ten figure deal can be abandoned simply because cyber auditors slammed the security of one of the portfolio companies.

This story is only one among many. Investment arms and acquirers are introducing cyber risk assessments as a top consideration for valuation. It's up there next to ROI, EBITDA, environmental, social, and governance (ESG).

Finding out that your company is exposed to cyber-attacks is a traumatic feeling in and of itself. Understanding that it also affects the companys valuation and whether the deal will come to fruition, changes the way leading private equities conduct due diligence on their portfolio companies.

Security leaders in acquiring and looking-to-be-acquired companies are learning that it's better to spend more on improving their security postures than it is to lose a deal or suffer a dramatic valuation reduction in the negotiation phase due to cyber gaps. As a result, cyber assessment and monitoring solutions are increasingly introduced as prerequisites for coming to the negotiation table.

In this webcast, senior managers and partners from top-tier global private equities EQT (Petter Weiderholm) and Francisco Partners (Eran Gorev), together with the CEO of CYE, the global cybersecurity leader (Reuven Aronashvili), will share their war stories about the challenging role of cyber due diligence in investments and acquisitions. They will also provide tips for CISOs in board discussions; what the cyber risk dashboard should include as well as additional best practices to make smarter investment decisions in an evolving cyber threat landscape.