Acquiring a company means acquiring its security posture — including gaps, vulnerabilities, and incident history you may not see during standard due diligence. RLM conducts independent security assessments that give deal teams and CISOs the visibility they need to quantify risk and plan remediation.
RLM provides independent, vendor-neutral advisory that gives deal teams and integration leaders the technology clarity they need to make informed decisions and execute with confidence.
We evaluate the target's security architecture — endpoint protection, network security, identity management, email security, and cloud security controls — benchmarking against industry frameworks and the acquiring organization's standards.
We identify missing or inadequate security controls — unpatched systems, unmanaged endpoints, weak access controls, and unmonitored network segments — quantifying the risk each gap represents and the cost to remediate.
We review the target's incident history, breach disclosures, and security event patterns — assessing whether past incidents indicate systemic weaknesses or were isolated events that have been properly addressed.
We inventory security tools across both organizations — EDR, SIEM, firewalls, vulnerability scanners, and email gateways — identifying overlap, integration challenges, and the rationalization path for the combined security stack.
We evaluate the security team's capabilities, staffing levels, operational processes, and incident response readiness — identifying where the combined organization will have gaps and where talent overlap creates consolidation opportunities.
We build the prioritized remediation roadmap — critical fixes that must happen before or immediately after close, medium-term integration milestones, and the target security architecture for the combined organization.
Start with a no-cost security review — we'll evaluate the target's controls, identify the gaps, and quantify the remediation cost.
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