Top 4 - Mergers & Acquisitions Compliance Services
Cyber Due Diligence
The problem: When you acquire a company, you acquire its cyber risk — every unpatched system, every hidden breach, every compliance gap becomes yours the moment the deal closes. Traditional financial and legal diligence ignores the one liability that can quietly erase the value of the entire transaction: the target's security posture. Buyers who skip it routinely discover the problem after the wire clears, when there's no leverage left to renegotiate.
The Knox solution: The Knox Corps conducts rigorous cyber due diligence on the target — assessing its security posture, vulnerabilities, breach history, and compliance standing — so you walk in knowing exactly what you're buying, with the leverage to adjust price, demand remediation, or walk away.
Inherited Liability (Compliance Risk Assessment)
The problem: A target's regulatory violations don't vanish at close — they transfer to you. Inheriting an unaddressed HIPAA, PCI, GLBA, or privacy-law gap can mean fines, enforcement actions, and remediation costs that land squarely on the acquirer's books, often dwarfing what diligence would have cost. Most deals never quantify this exposure until it's a problem.
The Knox solution: We evaluate the target's compliance standing across every framework that governs it, quantify the inherited regulatory liability in dollars and timeline, and hand you a clear remediation picture — turning a buried risk into a negotiated line item.
Compromise Assessment
The problem: Attackers routinely sit undetected in a network for months. Acquire a company that's already breached, and you inherit the intruder — plus the breach-notification obligations, litigation, and cleanup that follow. The target may not even know it's compromised. Closing the deal doesn't close the door the attacker walked through.
The Knox solution: The Knox Corps runs a compromise assessment on the target environment before close — hunting for active threats, intrusions, and indicators of compromise — so you don't wire funds for a company that's already under attack.
Post-Merger Integration Security
The problem: The riskiest moment in any deal is integration. Merging two networks, identity systems, and security cultures creates access sprawl, misconfigurations, and gaps that attackers actively watch for — M&A activity is a known breach trigger. A deal that closed clean can still be compromised during the messy work of combining environments.
The Knox solution: We plan and secure the integration — unifying access controls, hardening the combined environment, and aligning both organizations to a single security standard — so the value you paid for isn't lost in the merge.
