Mergers and Acquisitions

Build Your Fortress

No matter your business strategy, the first step for any organization large or small is to establish a robust security posture across the full stack. Edgescan lets you identify landscape, weaknesses, exposures and strengths before we consolidate the acquired property. The Edgescan platform is purpose-built to provide your internal security team with a comprehensive view of the attack surface, identify and flag vulnerabilities, and guide your team through the remediation process with validated risk-rated vulnerability assessments so your team can tackle the most pressing issues first.

The Acquisition Challenge

Mergers and acquisitions present continuous challenges for a firm’s internal security team. “Cybersecurity concerns are high for all M&A transactions, especially in due diligence,” Gartner reports. “The implications of incomplete or inaccurate due diligence can be catastrophic.” How can your security team get a comprehensive view of the IT assets associated with an outside enterprise, particularly if they do not get the opportunity to perform full due diligence before acquisition? With a limited time window before new assets must be assimilated into the cyber estate, it’s not always realistic to identify and profile all of the disparate assets to get visibility into their risk controls. That’s where Edgescan comes in.

Secure Growth

Once a fortified perimeter is established around your existing web-facing infrastructure, Edgescan will be your partner in safely welcoming new assets into the fold. When an Edgescan client moves to make an acquisition, the platform seamlessly onboards all assets associated with the target company—websites, mobile applications, network infrastructure, and more—and begins the program of continuous attack surface management (ASM) to discover and profile new assets before they enter the network. The acquired landscape, assets, and systems are scrutinized for vulnerabilities as it’s accepted into the acquiring firm’s cyber estate in order to maintain the client’s overall security posture.

Validated Vulnerabilities

Every potential vulnerability flagged in the Edgescan dashboard is automatically assessed and validated using the platform’s vast data lake to automated accuracy. If required in certain circumstances some discovered exposures are validated by a team of CREST and OSCP certified analysts, creating a multi-step authentication process that virtually guarantees your vulnerability assessment results will be free of false positives.

End-to-End Integration

With the Edgescan dashboard, the assessment process for new assets can be streamlined and automated into your existing security protocols. Your catalog of vulnerabilities and recommendations for how to fix them and what should be a priority will be continually updated to offer a comprehensive view of your organization’s attack surface as it grows and evolves.

World-Class Support

The same team of experts who validate your vulnerabilities are also on-hand (and on-demand) whenever you contact Edgescan support to offer next-level insight on your security gaps and advise you on how to close them. They can guide your decision-making and help you design a consistent process for discovering, profiling, and accepting new assets into your digital estate following an acquisition.

Strength Through Consistency

That process is key: a defined and standardized procedure, repeatable and reliable in a wide variety of business contexts, is essential to growing safely. For enterprises specializing in mergers and acquisitions, penetration testing all applications, APIs, and (Cloud) network infrastructure following an acquisition is next to impossible, and the sheer scale of the overall task can be daunting for teams with finite resources and limited specialization. Partnering with Edgescan will directly serve the major strategic goals of your business and allow leadership to execute a plan at the global level while the security team maintains full command of the security posture across the attack surface. Elevate new assets to meet your security standards, not the other way around, and grow with strength in a competitive landscape.