Both Sides of the Deal

The same eight-domain method from both sides of the table.

M&A Cyber Due Diligence Kit — the buyer's side. A 3–4 week engagement: 46 phased requests, four interview tracks, a passive external attack-surface check, the red-flag model with anchored scoring that outputs cost-to-cure in basis points of EV and a proposed escrow multiple, findings in deal-team voice, starter reps and warranties mapped to the findings that justify them, and a funded 100-day plan.

Sell-Side Cyber Exit Readiness Kit — the seller's side, six to eighteen months earlier. The buyer's-eye pre-mortem scoring the company today and at launch, escrow avoided set against programme cost, the 41-artifact data room, the remediation programme, and the disclosure builder that decides fix, disclose or price per finding.

Why both. The two kits are written against each other: the disclosure schedules in the sell-side kit are structured around the eight buyer representations in the buy-side kit, so preparing for a process and running a diligence are the same document read from opposite ends. A sponsor is usually on both sides within the same year — buying add-ons for one platform while preparing another for exit — and an operating partner who knows exactly what a buyer will price is a better buyer too.

For a fractional CISO, the pair is two distinct engagements off one method: a four-week diligence and a twelve-month readiness programme.

Delivered as two separate ZIP downloads.