Cyber risk management for private equity
Our award-winning private equity practice drives cyber value creation and risk mitigation across investment portfolios.
Case Study
Portfolio-wide cyber security review
We designed and ran a prominent private equity firm’s portfolio-wide cyber security benchmarking programme, by conducting a full NIST-based assessment across their entire portfolio. As part of the review, we managed the distribution of questionnaires across the book; collated and analysed results at an individual, sector-based and portfolio-wide level; and held workshops with each portco to validate results and gain additional business context. We then delivered individualised 12-month roadmaps for each asset.
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Cyber attack surface management
An EMEA-focused private equity firm asked us to conduct regular vulnerability scanning of its entire portfolio. We deployed our proprietary Polus Attack Surface Management tool to deliver visibility of the entire attack surface across their portfolio and real-time insight into the latest emerging threats. Our unique portfolio-wide dashboard view prioritised the highest-priority issues for remediation by portcos, while giving topco full visibility into their risk exposure and remediation progress.
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Cyber due diligence
A European private equity company asked S-RM to conduct cyber due diligence prior to their acquisition of a 5,000 person FMCG company. Our foundational due diligence was completed in a tight deal timeframe and uncovered significant weaknesses in the cyber security governance at the company, resulting in a renegotiation of the valuation.
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Portfolio-wide tabletop exercising
A UK-based private equity firm with a portfolio spread across Europe and North America was looking to improve the resilience of its portcos to cyber incidents. We worked with topco to develop an executive leadership cyber crisis tabletop exercise proposition, and then delivered an exercise to every portco, with each engagement tailored to the individual needs of each company. Running the programme at scale enabled us to offer competitive pricing, delivering both a significant value-add for portcos and greater cyber assurance for topco.
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