C3SA helps investors, acquirers and leadership teams understand cyber, privacy, technology and resilience risks before they become transaction surprises or post-close liabilities.
Our work is designed around practical outcomes, not activity for its own sake.
Internet-facing assets, leaked credentials, dark-web indicators and public attack surface.
Governance, controls, architecture, operations and evidence maturity.
Sensitive-data handling, residency, contractual obligations and privacy exposure.
Identity, cloud, endpoints, applications, integrations and concentration risk.
Prioritized security integration and remediation roadmap.
Concise risk framing for boards, investors and deal teams.
Scope is agreed with the deal team and scaled to the access and timeline available.
An outside-in view of the target that needs no access to its systems: internet-facing assets and vulnerabilities, leaked credentials, dark-web mentions and indicators of past compromise. Useful early, before the target opens its data room.
What you get
A review of the target's security governance, controls, architecture, operations and evidence, through documents and management interviews, to judge whether its stated maturity holds up.
What you get
How the target collects, stores and shares personal and sensitive data, where it resides, what contractual and regulatory obligations apply, and any history of breaches or complaints.
What you get
Identity, cloud, endpoints, applications and integrations, including technical debt and dependency on single providers that may affect integration or valuation.
What you get
A sequenced plan for bringing the acquired organization up to your security standards, with the first 100 days focused on the risks most likely to cause an incident.
What you get
Findings framed for the decision: which risks are material to the deal, which affect price or terms, and which can be fixed after close.
What you get
Engagements can be targeted, project-based or part of a broader transformation program.
A merger, acquisition, investment, partnership or major supplier decision can carry hidden cyber risk: an undisclosed breach, weak controls, unexpected data obligations or expensive remediation. C3SA examines the target's security program, exposed assets, material incidents, data handling, third-party dependencies and remediation costs within an agreed scope.
Because C3SA also delivers remediation and integration, the post-close roadmap is realistic about effort and sequencing, and C3SA can carry it out.
As early as possible. An outside-in exposure review needs no access to the target and can inform whether to proceed before the data room opens.
It depends on the stage. External review needs none. A program review needs documents and management interviews. Targeted technical validation needs agreed access and the target's consent.
Yes. The same approach applies to major suppliers and partners where a failure would affect your operations or data.
A merger, acquisition, investment, partnership or major supplier decision carries hidden cyber risk.
C3SA examines the target's security program, exposed assets, material incidents, data handling, third-party dependencies and remediation costs within an agreed scope.
Decision-oriented findings, critical risks, questions for the counterparty, and an integration or remediation roadmap.
