Security Awareness
Arm your workforce with the knowledge to spot cyber threats and respond effectively. Our tailored training sessions and continuous education build a security-first culture critical to dealmaking process, and day-to-day operations.
Merger and acquisition support
With today’s ever-evolving threat landscape, cyber risk has become a matter of corporate governance. M&A deals must complete rigorous due diligence to uncover and remediate cyber risk concerns of their merger/acquisition targets. Cyber risks are not just technology problems. They have legal, financial, operational, and board governance implications. Cyber risks are real and present dangers to business operations, profits, and for some, continued viability. Today’s corporate leaders have a fiduciary responsibility to understand and manage cyber risks.
Why choose R3 for your M&A due diligence support?
Technology Enabled Approach during the whole process
Our approach to M&A support, due diligence and post integration enables organizations to enable visibility on the technology.
Our technology focused approach is yielding truly actionable insights based on cybersecurity professional services specialized.
Our methodology considers fast-paced, high pressure situations where you have to make decisions based on partial availability and/or reliability of information.
We provide services to cover the full lifecycle of a deal, from pre-assessment, due diligence, transition, post-deal integration.
Comprehensive services
Pre-due diligence
Due diligence
Deal assessment
Post-deal
Pre-due diligence
Using our proprietary cybersecurity risk assessment framework, we perform an “outside-in” review. Based on only publicly available information, we develop a high-level profile of cybersecurity risk based on the likelihood of an issue and its possible impact. M&A managers use these profiles to evaluate deals. These are time-boxed efforts that can be run on individual targets or groups of companies.
Due diligence
An “outside-in” assessment is used as a precursor to a deeper analysis to gather information firsthand using our proprietary cybersecurity risk assessment framework. This includes a targeted analysis of critical risk dimensions such as a maturity assessment of cybersecurity incident response capabilities, security infrastructure, etc. Projects often include review of key procedures (e.g., incident response, 3rd party vendor risk, insider threat) that may have a direct impact on the deal. Typically, this service takes two to four weeks and may involve a short onsite visit to perform professional interviews.
Deal assessment
The security score rating and critical risk dimensions provides the in-depth insight required to make remedial decisions and assess the potential extent of required security improvements. Assessments include a full onsite risk assessment and an internal/external vulnerability assessment and threat lead penetration testing services. Typically, this service requires two to four weeks for completion.
Post-deal
We provide design and implementation support to enable the business to integrate or extract an organization, while ensuring appropriate security controls and governance processes are in place. Our experts design required capabilities to manage risk, create new solutions, establish new organizational approaches and governance models. We partner with you, as needed, throughout the implementation process, providing advisory services that help with architecture design, vendor/product selection, and general implementation support.
Our approach
Our M&A services evaluate an organization’s cyber security posture through:
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Technical testing
from internal and external perspectives to gather objective evidence of security program effectiveness
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Assessments
that rate the maturity of an organization’s cybersecurity controls, across multiple dimensions
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Evaluating
- Risk management approach
- Security organization
- Compliance and assurance programs
- Security technology
- Third-party risk management
- Incident response planning and
management - Governance model, including risk transfer policies
- Insider threat management
- Threat and vulnerability management
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Advice
We produce insights and recommendations that highlight weaknesses and potential remediation plans and costs.
Results R3 Delivers
Know whether an organization deserves your trust in the cyberspace.
The Cybersecurity Due Diligence summary report consist timely and truly actionable insights such as:
- The Security Score & Critical Risk Dimensions
- Short Executive Briefing & Key Insights
- Individual chapters of technology assessment activities
- Security Improvement Roadmap
