M&A Cybersecurity
Due diligence shaped to deal constraints, with findings expressed in transaction terms.
View service →Private Equity & Portfolio Companies
Cyber Risk, Read in Deal Terms
Private equity buyers price risk for a living — cyber risk should be no different. Ironhawk translates security posture into findings a deal team can act on, and supports portfolio companies from diligence through integration and the hold period.
Deal-speed diligence
Evidence-based review shaped to data-room reality and transaction timelines.
Integration decided on evidence
Compromise assessment and migration review inform when and how environments connect.
Portfolio-wide visibility
Comparable maturity baselines across holdings, so attention goes where risk is.
How Ironhawk Supports Private Equity & Portfolio Companies
Relevant Capabilities
Compromise Assessment
Assess a target environment for indicators of intrusion before integration proceeds.
View service →Migration Security Services
Identity, access, and segmentation review for platform and environment integration.
View service →IT Maturity
Portfolio-company baselines that make security posture comparable across holdings.
View service →Penetration Testing
Authorized validation of a target's or portfolio company's real exposure.
View service →Incident Recovery & Remediation
Response and recovery support when a portfolio company takes a hit mid-hold.
View service →Representative Scenario — Private Equity & Portfolio Companies
Representative of Ironhawk's approach. This scenario does not describe a specific client or engagement.
Situation
A private equity firm is acquiring a software company on a compressed timeline. The target's security posture is a known unknown: the deal team needs a defensible read before signing, and the value-creation plan assumes the target's platform connects to another portfolio company's environment within months of close.
How Ironhawk Engages
Pre-signing, Ironhawk conducts cybersecurity due diligence shaped to deal constraints — an evidence-based review of the target's controls, architecture, incident history, and regulatory exposure, delivered as findings the deal team can weigh in negotiation and planning. Post-close, a compromise assessment addresses the question every integration should ask first: are there indicators that someone is already inside the environment we are about to connect to? Its documented findings and residual-risk reporting inform the decision on when and how integration proceeds, supported by migration security review of the identity, access, and segmentation changes that connecting the environments requires. Remediation is sequenced into the first-hundred-days plan with owners and priorities.
What the Organization Ends With
Diligence findings the deal team can factor into negotiation, an assessed target environment with documented findings and residual risk before networks are joined, and a remediation plan the operating partner can run.
See the shape of the work product: a sample M&A diligence executive summary.
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From first data-room access to post-close integration — Ironhawk gives deal teams and operating partners a security read they can defend.