Cybersecurity Risk Assessment and Remediation For Merger & Acquisition(M&A)
Identity centric cybersecurity is one of the most important factors in the final success of an M&A deal. Why? Security professionals are traditionally not given the liberty to conduct their own assessments prior to M&A execution. This often lead to a dramatic increase in cyber risks through compromised identities. Any orphan or unused account presents a cyber risk vulnerability waiting to be exploited by hackers. Marriott’s acquisition of Starwood Group was marked with one such incident hackers stole data of approximately 500million customers. The attackers remained in the system after Marriott acquired Starwood in 2016 and were not discovered until September 2018.
SecurEnds helps buy-side and sell-side organizations create a comprehensive cybersecurity, access and entitlement review program. Using SecurEnds feature :
- Create single source of truth by connecting to single or multiple HR systems such as ADP etc
- Easily connect enterprise applications (Microsoft, Oracle, SAP etc), files (unstructured data) etc.
- Connect custom applications using database,web-api, script based flex-connectors
- Match identities with user credentials across healthcare systems using pattern matching fuzzy logic.
- Set up attribute based access review campaigns for heartbeat accounts and service accounts.
- Schedule onetime or delta reviews across applications, group of application or attributes.
- Send reminder emails to reviewers , review and managers.
- Integrate with service management systems (ServiceNow, Jira etc) to trigger employee termination workflow
- Generate proof of compliance reports for auditors.
- Easy to drill down Identity MindMaps to see “who has access to what data”
Organizations that make recurring strategic purchases can use SecurEnds software during the due diligence and post acquisition Identity Access Management integration. Our software with its flexible deployment models tailored to fit a variety of environments and industries helps organizations internal M&A group build a repeatable program. We also offer a pre-configured instance in a fully managed private cloud environment. A team of highly-skilled cybersecurity professionals using our industry software offer 24 hours a day, 365 days a year identity governance and remediation program.
