Know what you’re buying before the risk becomes yours.
The day a deal closes, the target’s security becomes your liability. A questionnaire and a data room tell you what they attest, not whether they’re already breached or how easily they could be. We test it, before you sign.
A checklist tells you what they attest. Not what an attacker would find.
Diligence runs on self-reported questionnaires and a data room. Point-in-time, and silent on the thing that matters: could a real attacker reach what the deal is built on, and are they already inside? Inherit that unknowingly and it becomes your breach, your disclosure, your write-down.
An honest read, before the signature.
A clear picture of the target’s real exposure: what’s reachable, what may already be compromised, and what it will cost to fix. In time to price it, plan for it, or walk away.
That picture comes from one thing: testing the target the way an acquirer rarely gets to.
honest read before you sign
One evidenced assessment of the target’s real posture, in time to act on it, not after the deal is done.
Knowing the exposure is half of it; carrying it through the integration is the rest.
Three levers, one outcome.
Test the target for real
With permission, a red team or penetration test answers the question diligence can’t: what an attacker could actually reach inside the company you’re buying.
Red team engagements →02Read the whole programme
A program review turns the target’s posture into a maturity picture and a costed remediation plan, the number you bring to the deal model.
Program review & vCISO →03Baseline the combined surface
After close, Incenter maps and watches the merged estate continuously, so integration doesn’t open a gap nobody’s looking at.
See Incenter →years finding what diligence checklists miss.
Senior operators who test the way an acquirer rarely gets to: independent, and answerable only to the finding.
What the diligence surfaces:
- Whether the target is already compromised
- The exposure you’d inherit, costed for the deal model
- A day-one plan for the risk you’re taking on
Put the levers to work, and the before-and-after looks like this.