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M&A Assessment
A business acquisition creates new opportunities for your organization. Accounting for the cyber risk you're taking on lets you price it, plan for it, and move with confidence.
Cyber risk belongs in the conversation
Growth through acquisition works best when you know what you're taking on. A Cyber M&A Assessment brings cyber due diligence into the deal process, giving you a clear view of the target's risk early enough to factor into your decisions.
The assessment connects what you find to what you do about it. Findings feed directly into valuation, negotiation, and integration planning, which puts cyber risk in the same conversation as every other material risk in the deal.
Inside your assessment
Every assessment covers six key areas, giving you what you need to negotiate the deal, plan the integration, and move forward.
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Full risk picture: Cyber posture score and risk factors for your organization, the target, and the combined entity after the deal closes.
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Target's risk history: A detailed look at the target's cyber risk, including its history of breaches and past security performance.
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Integration scenario modelling: Modelling of potential cyber losses at different speeds and depths of integration, so you can weigh moving fast against moving carefully.
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Peer benchmarking: Benchmarking against industry peers, before and after the deal, across key risk factors.
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Gap identification: Security gaps and at-risk areas in the target, identified while they are still the seller's problem to explain.
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Remediation cost estimates: Costs you can factor into the deal price or build into your investment plan.
Gartner Recognized
We are thrilled to share that Integrity360 has been recognized as a Gartner Representative Vendor in 5 of their Market Guides, including: Managed Security Services, Managed Detection and Response, Gartner's Market Guide for Co-Managed Security Monitoring Services and Managed SIEM Services.
Gartner has included a range of providers within its market guide for managed services to ensure clear coverage from a geographical, vertical and capabilities perspective. Those included in the Gartner market guide display clarity in the vision for an end-user outcome-focused offering distinct from a pure technology-driven offering.
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Mergers and Acquisitions FAQs
What is a Merger & Acquisition (M&A) Cyber Assessment?
It's an evaluation of an organization's cybersecurity posture before, during, or after a merger or acquisition. It surfaces risks, hidden vulnerabilities, compliance gaps, and inherited liabilities that could affect the deal or how well the two organizations integrate afterward.
Why is cyber due diligence critical in M&A?
Cyber risk can affect the value and viability of an acquisition, and it doesn't stay with the seller. Once a deal closes, any vulnerabilities in the target's systems become the acquirer's responsibility, whether or not they were known going in. Cyber due diligence surfaces that risk while there's still time to negotiate around it.
What does Integrity360’s M&A assessment service include?
Cyber risk analysis, threat exposure reviews, infrastructure mapping, a review of past incidents, third-party risk evaluation, and an integration readiness assessment, all led by our consultants. We run the assessment end-to-end, so it doesn't add to your team's existing workload.
When in the M&A process should the assessment happen?
Ideally, during pre-acquisition due diligence. However, it's also of value during deal negotiation, post-signing validation, and post-acquisition integration, so risk is caught and managed at every stage.
Does the assessment cover regulatory compliance?
Yes. For most Canadian organizations, we assess alignment with PIPEDA and the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security's baseline controls, along with ISO 27001. If the target or acquirer is a federally regulated financial institution, we also assess alignment with OSFI's B-10 and B-13 guidelines, which govern third-party and technology risk management.
How does Integrity360 tailor the assessment to each deal?
We scope it to your deal size, sector, risk appetite, and infrastructure complexity, whether that's a fast-moving acquisition or a large, structured transaction, so you get relevant insight without unnecessary overhead.
Can the service support post-acquisition integration?
Yes. We help align security policies, assess the compatibility of tools and processes, and build an integration plan so the combined organization starts from a unified security foundation.
What makes Integrity360’s M&A assessment different?
Many cyber assessments treat a deal as a point-in-time technical review. We build ours around the deal itself, turning risk into numbers you can use directly in valuation and negotiation.
