A Portfolio-Wide Cyber Assessment
A middle-market Private Equity firm conducts a cybersecurity assessment across its portfolio of 21 companies in the financial services, industrials, healthcare, consumer, and defense sectors.
Background
- The Private Equity firm needed a team of cybersecurity experts to conduct a cybersecurity health assessment and report to ensure it understood areas of risk across its portfolio as the threat of cyberattacks increased amid the COVID-19.
Our Approach
- The PIP team performed a portfolio-wide Cybersecurity Health Evaluation to understand the risk posture of the firm’s portfolio and developed a high-level report outlining the security controls and threats that required further investigation and attention.
- Scope Identification: PIP and the Private Equity firm worked in partnership to identify the necessary resources and experience needed to complete the cybersecurity assessment.
- Cybersecurity Assessment: The team developed and distributed a cybersecurity health survey across the Private Equity firm’s 21 portfolio companies to understand significant areas of risk across each organization, in addition to the Private Equity firm.
- Report and Action-Plan: Following the survey, the PIP team developed a visual cybersecurity assessment ranking each company’s risk posture by size, industry, and current security measures, in addition to tailored remediation plans focused on the five companies identified as high risk.
Results
Through its assessment, PIP provided the Private Equity firm with a visual security assessment and roll-up report, ranking the current level of risk for each individual portfolio company based on size, industry, and current security protocols, in addition to tailored action plans for the five high risk companies identified.
- 21 Portfolio Companies
- 1 Portfolio-wide Cybersecurity Assessment
- 5 Companies Identified as High-Risk
