M&A Cyber Due Diligence
You're not just buying a company — you're buying its breaches, its technical debt and every credential its ex-employees still hold. We assess a target's real security posture before you sign, so cyber risk is priced into the deal instead of discovered after closing.
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What this means. An authorized Solvex administrator registered and approved this exact public identity. What it does not. Solvex has not inspected the account on the platform, and this is not the platform's own verification.
Solvex specialists never ask for your passwords, recovery phrases, one-time codes, or payments to a personal account. Work, scope and invoices are agreed in writing through the official channels on this site.
What's covered
- External attack-surface and exposure assessment of the target (passive, non-intrusive)
- Review of the target's security program, policies and compliance posture
- Breach-history and dark-web exposure investigation
- Technical-debt and security-architecture review from available evidence
- Assessment of data-protection liabilities (GDPR, sector regulation) transferring with the deal
- Post-closing integration risk analysis: identity, network and tooling merge risks
What you receive
- Due-diligence report: material findings, deal-relevant risks, estimated remediation effort
- Red-flag summary for the deal team within the transaction timeline
- Data-room question set and follow-up analysis of responses
- Post-acquisition 100-day security integration roadmap
- Support during negotiation on cyber representations and warranties
Evidence and reporting
How the work is kept honest- Evidence, frozen at issuanceFindings tie to something observed. When the report is issued, the evidence behind it is frozen in the same transaction and cannot be edited afterwards.
- A signed reportAn Ed25519 signature covers both the report content and the delivered file. Alter a byte of either and verification fails.
- Written scope firstAdvisory work runs to a written scope agreed before it starts, so what you receive is what was agreed.
Anyone holding a Solvex report can verify it publicly without seeing its contents.
Our boundaries
What this engagement does not do, stated before it starts.
- Pre-close assessment is passive and evidence-based — no intrusive testing of a company you don't yet own
- Findings reflect available evidence; a data room can't prove the absence of compromise
- We advise the deal team; legal and financial due diligence remain with your advisers
- Post-close penetration testing is a separate, authorised engagement
How this engagement runs
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Intake
Tell us the system, the goal and the constraints. If the work is not a good fit, we say so before anyone is invoiced.
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Scope and authorization
Written scope and signed authorization before anything is touched. Security testing runs only against systems you own or are contractually entitled to have tested.
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Investigation or build
Specialists matched to the work. Findings are proven by hand — scanner output is a lead, never a finding.
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Evidence
Every finding ties to something observed. When a report is issued, its evidence is frozen in the same transaction, so what backed the report cannot change afterwards.
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Delivery
A signed report: an Ed25519 signature over both the content and the file, with a short verification reference you can read down a phone.
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Verification and retest
Anyone holding the report can verify it publicly without seeing its contents. Fixes are retested as part of the engagement — “fixed” means we confirmed it.
Questions we are asked
- How fast can you turn this around? Deals move quickly.
- The red-flag summary typically lands within the first week; the full report follows within the diligence window agreed with your deal team. We've structured the methodology so the highest-impact checks run first.
- Can you assess a target without alerting them?
- The external exposure and breach-history work is passive and uses only public and licensed data sources, so it requires no contact with the target. Program and architecture review uses the data room once diligence access is granted.
- What do you do after the deal closes?
- The report includes a 100-day integration roadmap — the identity, network and tooling merge is where acquired risk usually becomes inherited breach. Many clients follow up with an authorised penetration test of the acquired estate once they own it.
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