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CYBER RESILIENCE SERVICES
Proactive Security Orchestration for Successful M&A
We work with CISOs, CIOs, and deal teams to deploy M&A pre-deal end-to-end due diligence assessments that identify cybersecurity gaps, technical alignment issues, and potential risks.
Assessments inform roadmaps based on your specific business goals. Roadmaps enable purposeful integration, orchestration, and optimization planning. This sets the stage for a successful transition post-close.
Initiate the SecureOps Shield for interim protection during the transition to close exposure gaps and minimize the attack surface, protecting deal value and building growth momentum from Day 1.
SecureOps’ proven expertise ensures cybersecurity serves as a value lever to protect and enhance the viability of your M&A initiatives. Our M&A Cyber Resilience Services calm the disruption of M&A initiatives by invoking cybersecurity as a business enabler during acquisitions or divestitures.
Our Cyber Resilience Services also allow organizations to take advantage of the opportunity presented during the realignment of processes, tooling, infrastructure, and skill sets to strengthen your cyber resilience from the SOC to the NOC in parallel with the transition.
MORE DEPTH. GET BEYOND SUPERFICIAL FINDINGS.
Cyber Technical Due Diligence Assessments
Ensure due diligence goes far beyond traditional superficial assessments that result in unknown vulnerabilities, unforeseen tech debt, underfunded remediation and lost business advantage.
Assessments are designed to review current state, find potential risks and hidden gaps, and identify opportunities to build end-to-end cyber resilience as part of your post-merger cybersecurity infrastructure.
Based on your business objectives, context, industry, and risk appetite, you choose the assessments you need and the depth—from a spot check to a high-level overarching review to a full deep dive. Specific assessments cover identity, network, vulnerability, configuration, process, SOC/monitoring, AI, data, and governance, risk, and compliance (GRC), aligned with risk frameworks (MITRE, NIST, etc.).
Cyber technical assessments that get to the issues give you an actionable foundation over high-level risk assessments that may indicate a gap, but not what’s causing the gap. You need to know how to close it given the intended transition from the Target’s existing environment to the desired future state for your organization.
REDUCE COMPLEXITY FOR M&A INTEGRATION
Roadmaps Inform the Path to a Resilient End-State for M&A
Armed with assessment findings, we work with your team to define immediate, mid- and long-term planning to optimize your cybersecurity M&A integration and reduce complexity.
From gap analysis to “what if” scenario examples, roadmaps help you assess combined organizational risk against remediation cost and ROI tradeoffs.
We work with you to match your unique requirements and existing infrastructure to the evolving threat landscape. Roadmaps provide guidance to ensure the post-merger end-state is well planned, documented, measurable, fully budgeted, and resilient.
Roadmaps are developed collaboratively with your security and IT leaders, and M&A Director based on your specific business objectives with an eye toward consolidation and minimizing rip and replace scenarios.
M&A is also the perfect time to incorporate changes to your overall security strategy to create a cyber-resilient end-state for the combined organization. This includes changes or updates to your current environment that help strengthen future state end-to-end security posture.
The assessment to roadmap work can also be used to create a repeatable methodology if you plan to, or continuously, participate in similar types of M&A initiatives. This ensures continuous improvement for security infrastructure and planning, saves time, reduces costs.
The result? Stronger, orchestrated cyber resilience with each additional roll-up.
FAST INTERIM PROTECTION
The SecureOps Shield Provides Rapid Protection for Transition
The Shield reduces the increased risk that often results when speed is the main priority for integration due to inherent threats.
The Shield was developed for our customers who acquired a Target and realized they inherited major security vulnerabilities.
While the normal flow for a deal would be assessments to roadmaps to interim protection to integration and future state, sometimes the first thing needed is rapidly-deployed protection within days. That’s what The Shield offers when you realize the environment is not what you thought it would be.
For acquisitions without major exposure gaps–or with enough time for pre-close planning–you may not need The Shield and we can take immediate action to initiate your long-term roadmap on Day 1.
But, should you need it, The Shield provides secure flexibility that allows for the purposeful, phased orchestration to increase resilience across the merged infrastructure.
When The Shield is lifted, you own the environment it protected. Or, you may choose to acquire the components of The Shield to support your longer-term security operations goals.
STRATEGIC EXECUTION WITH A SECURITY-BY-DESIGN APPROACH
Integration Services to Accelerate Growth Momentum
Merging entire digital ecosystems requires much more than just plugging two systems together.
Using approved roadmaps, we work with your security and IT teams to integrate the Target’s infrastructure to achieve your desired end-state. If you needed The Shield, you now have the time needed for thoughtful, phased integration.
Using our security-by-design approach, we help you orchestrate a fluid process that includes completing integration, ensuring protection for critical systems and the consolidation of redundant or overlapping tools.
We bring the security expertise and guidance to help you implement your roadmap and complete integration work that advances end-to-end resilience, along with operational stability.
The result? You move fast without breaking things.
Our team works in sync with your teams to create a productive collaboration between the M&A Director, security, and IT. Harmonized cybersecurity policies and procedures accelerate momentum toward the business goals now possible post-acquisition.
While there are many permutations for integration services, examples of SecureOps proven expertise include:
- Custom SOC and Managed MDR Services
- Firewall deployment and management
- Vulnerability Management
- Deployment and Professional Services ranging from SIEM to Cloud to Identity, Zero Trust, and more
CONTINUE STRENGTHENING YOUR SECURITY POSTURE
Post-Integration Services for Cyber Resilience
Evolving your partnership with us after integration ensures a customer-first approach with a team that already knows your environment, business context, and risk appetite.
Based on our proven frameworks for SOC Maturity, Operational Resilience and MSSP Partnership Maturity, SecureOps provides the ongoing managed services you need to support and evolve your security operations for what comes next.
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We already know your team and environment. It’s a seamless transition to use our services to extend your team and continuously strengthen your security posture, advancing end-to-end resilience from the SOC to the NOC.
