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Ensuring Cyber Security Due Diligence during an Acquisition

Since the focus of a merger or acquisition, or spin off is usually on enhancing competitiveness or scale of operations, cyber security is typically put on the backburner. The cursory due diligence conducted before an acquisition seldom results in a robust security posture. The immediate challenge for a chief information security ofcer (CISO) after a merger, is ensuring that the new entity has a security baseline that measures up to the risks it faces. Despite the global M&A volume of $3.9 trillion in 2016, organizations are only now waking up to the importance of the cyber security posture in an M&A transaction.

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Polyverse Corporation

Hacking today’s enterprise computer applications is a lot like playing lotto where the numbers are known in advance. No matter how sophisticated an organization’s cyberdefenses, if its valuable systems are static and unchanging, hackers will ultimately “figure out the winning numbers” to breach them and take the jackpot.Most hackers know exactly which numbers to play. For example, “zero-day” exploits that are readily available on the dark web can breach most application and system technologies with impunity, because no antivirus software signatures are yet available to defeat them. And advanced persistent threats, in which malware and backdoors can lurk undetected for months inside enterprise systems, wreak havoc and steal data with little chance of being spotted.

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Ensuring Cyber Security Due Diligence during an Acquisition