What’s changing
Diligence that prices risk into the offer
What it exposes
Inherited identity, cloud, and access you cannot see on day one
Why it matters to the business
A slower close — or terms written around what you did not find
Private Equity
Cyber risk shows up in the model — at close, and again at exit.
You inherit infrastructure you did not build. Buyers now price that risk into the offer. We start from the architecture each portco actually runs, then keep pressure on it through the hold period — so diligence, value creation, and the exit file are evidence, not a last-minute scramble.
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Why this matters now
The risk is moving. The emphasis has to move with it.
Cyber is no longer a questionnaire at signing. It is a line in the model — and the firms that treat it as a value-creation lever walk into exit with a story buyers will pay for.
What’s changing
Hold-period evidence, not a cleanup sprint
What it exposes
Gaps that compound across a portfolio with thin security teams
Why it matters to the business
Value creation you can show — or a scramble in the last two quarters
What’s changing
Buyers who read the cyber file
What it exposes
Whether residual risk is proven closed, or just ticketed
Why it matters to the business
Exit narrative and valuation, not a compliance appendix
What’s changing
Scale without a security-engineer army
What it exposes
Portcos that cannot staff continuous testing themselves
Why it matters to the business
A platform motion — Aludra and Portal — that the firm can actually run
In this environment
What we look for across a portfolio
The firm needs one way to see inherited risk. Each portco has its own architecture. We map both — then build the engagement around the deal calendar, not a generic assessment.
Inherited identity and access
Accounts, vendors, and privileges that arrived with the asset.
Cloud and application estates
What the portco actually runs — including what diligence missed.
Deal-speed and first-100-days windows
What has to be known before close, and what can wait until value creation.
Thin portco security teams
Where continuous testing has to come from the platform, not a new hire.
Firm-level visibility
What operating partners and the deal team can see without another slide deck.
The question we prove
Do we know what this portco inherited — and can an attacker use it before the hold period pays off?
We prove whether inherited identity, cloud, or a vendor path is actually exploitable — then keep testing it. The point is not a one-time report. It is evidence the next buyer can diligence.
The path we walk
A path from inherited access to the model
This is the progression that turns a portco IT problem into a value event. We find it, prove it, and keep it closed through the hold period.
01
Inherited identity
02
Unknown cloud / app
03
Privilege
04
Material incident
05
Valuation / exit impact
Valuation impact
Where Open Security meets the path
- Find
- Validate
- Prioritize
- Remediate
- Retest
What leadership sees
What a finding means for the deal
A vulnerability list is not an operating partner briefing. Whether it can become a material incident — and what that does to close or exit — is.
Consequence
Which portco, deal timeline, or exit narrative the path can actually hit.
Priority
Sequenced by valuation impact — not a generic severity score.
Regulation
Mapped to buyer diligence, LP questions, and the sector rules that portco already faces.
Ownership
Portco management, the operating partner, and the vendor still on the path.
Remediation
A fundable sequence inside the hold period — not a cleanup in the last quarter.
Leadership visibility
Portal so the firm sees residual risk across the portfolio in deal language.
Frameworks this maps to
Buyer diligence
Evidence a sophisticated buyer will actually read at exit.
SOC 2 / sector rules
Portco obligations that show up in the data room.
LP governance
A defensible answer before the next capital-raise question.
Your environment determines the engagement
The engagement this portfolio needs
Your environment determines the engagement — not a standard PE package. The fight to win here is the platform: Aludra for continuous validation at the portcos, Portal for the firm.
Service
Penetration Testing
Prove inherited paths at diligence and in the first 100 days — before they price into the model.
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Application & API Testing
The software and integrations a portco actually ships — especially when that is the asset.
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Red Team & Threat Simulation
Material-incident scenarios framed for operating partners, not a phishing score.
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Tabletops & Awareness
Hold-period and exit-readiness drills the deal team can sit in.
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Aludra
Continuous penetration testing at the portco — without staffing a security-engineer army at every asset.
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Portal
Firm-level visibility: residual risk, owner, and what still threatens close or exit.
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Sirius
The discovery map on day one of ownership — what you inherited before an attacker finds it.
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The work continues through the hold period
A diligence snapshot is not an exit file. Continuous validation, retesting, and readiness stay on the asset until the buyer reads the evidence.
Remediation inside the value-creation plan
Fixes sequenced so material paths close early in the hold — not in the sale window.
Retesting that becomes buyer evidence
The same inherited path, walked again, so the data room is more than a ticket export.
Tabletops for material incidents
Who calls the operating partner, what hits the model, and how fast the story holds.
Training the portco can actually absorb
Awareness sized for thin teams — not an enterprise program they cannot staff.
Continuous validation across the portfolio
Aludra keeps pressure on changing identity and cloud between assessments.
Proof, in this industry’s language
Mid-market sponsor
Hold period
continuous validation without a security-engineer army
Aludra kept pressure on inherited identity and cloud paths so the exit file was evidence — not a last-minute scramble.
Know what you inherited — before it prices the deal.
Talk through the portfolio with an operator. Diligence, hold-period validation, and an exit file buyers will actually read.