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When looking to make an acquisition, assessing the target's cyber hygiene is as important as determining its financial health and market potential. Yet infosec leaders are often brought in late in the M&A lifecycle.

To truly harness the power of M&A in support of business expansion, it is imperative to embed cybersecurity considerations right from the initial due diligence phase and carry them seamlessly through to integration.

People never come to work expecting a cyberattack, so it feels surprising and random when it happens. But cyberattacks are “predictable surprises” that exploit weaknesses in organisational strategies and capabilities. Prepared enterprises do not dismiss cybersecurity as a random event but focus on building strategic capabilities to anticipate and respond to cyberattacks. How can companies prepare and prevent a crisis from becoming a catastrophe?

Threats are limitless, and resources are not. Therefore, leading enterprises have turned to a different approach: focusing their resiliency efforts around their highest value at risk. The most advanced enterprises use qualitative and quantitative risk management methods to identify the greatest cyber risks to their most important assets and processes. Armed with this insight, they prioritise their investments accordingly. What’s the ideal roadmap to a risk-led resilience strategy?

Planes, power plants and even pipelines now all rely on digital technology as the worlds of IT and OT converge. Attacks and disruptions on these companies and organisations can lead to catastrophe and have exponentially increased in the last few years. Securing operational technology from cyber threats is now an inescapable necessity. As adversaries ramp up their attacks and methods, the industry needs to move beyond compliance to cyber resilience.

Very few companies still have their operations supported solely by private data centres. Today, most enterprises use at least one public cloud provider, with many in a multi-cloud setup. That shift to the cloud comes with strategic opportunities and changing demands on security and resilience, skills and talent. Enterprises need to design resilience in everything from secure architecture to dedicated technologies to secure the journey to the cloud.

Even if an enterprise has done all it can to protect itself from cyber attacks, it is still vulnerable to attacks and disruptions through the supply chain. As a result, third-party risks have become one of the most pressing cybersecurity challenges. Although it seems a daunting task, with potentially thousands of 3rd and 4th parties in the supply chain, enterprises can take steps to build cyber resilience and break the domino effect if an attack occurs.