Cybersecurity Due Diligence
Cyber diligence for buyers and sellers, delivered on the deal clock. Findings come priced in dollars, with a remediation timeline you can negotiate into the purchase agreement.
Cybersecurity due diligence is the review a buyer or a seller runs on a target's security program during a transaction: what has already been breached, what is exposed now, what the company promised customers in contracts, and what it will cost to bring the environment to the acquirer's control baseline. BD Emerson runs it on buy-side and sell-side deals in two to four weeks. Findings arrive as dollars and a remediation schedule, not a risk register. Every material item carries a cost range, an owner, and a place in the model or in the purchase agreement.
M&A cyber due diligence covers nine workstreams, scoped to the deal size and the clock. A confirmatory review on a small add-on runs narrower than a platform deal with 400 employees and three cloud accounts, and we tell you which workstreams we are cutting before the work starts.
We start from the thesis and the calendar: deal size, what the target sells, what data it holds, and the date the deal team needs an answer. Scope is cut to fit that date, in writing, before work starts.
SOC 2 reports, penetration test reports, policies, incident records, insurance binders, and the security terms buried in customer contracts. We read a SOC 2 report knowing what the testing covered, because we perform SOC 2 examinations ourselves through our CPA attest arm.
Two to four sessions with whoever owns security, IT, and engineering. We ask what actually happens, then ask for the artifact that proves it. Most of the findings that move price surface here.
Identity configuration, cloud console, endpoint coverage, logging, and backups, reviewed directly where the target grants access and reconstructed from evidence and screen shares where it does not.
Each material finding gets a remediation cost range, an internal effort estimate, and a timeline. We name what drives the range: headcount, tooling, and whether the fix triggers a customer notification or a contract change.
A priced findings register, a one-page summary the investment committee can read, and a remediation plan split into pre-close, Day One, and first-year work. Delivered on the date agreed at scoping.
We work through the findings with counsel and the deal team: representations, indemnity, escrow, and any price adjustment the numbers support. The remediation plan then goes to whoever owns integration, so nothing restarts after close.
BD Emerson performs SOC 2 examinations directly through its CPA attest arm. We know what the testing covered, what the system boundary left out, and which exceptions actually matter to a buyer.
A remediation cost range, an effort estimate, and a date on every material finding. The deal team can put it in the model, hold it in escrow, or fund it at Day One. A risk register supports none of those decisions.
Financial, tax, technology, and cyber diligence run by the same firm, so findings reconcile to one model instead of four vendors' reports, and nobody re-interviews the target's CTO twice.
The remediation plan becomes the integration workplan. Whoever owns security after close inherits a sequenced list with costs and owners, and we can execute it or supply fractional security leadership until the target has its own.
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BD Emerson helped us simplfiy our compliance management.
BD Emerson did such a phenomenal job. What started as privacy support quickly became a full partnership across compliance, engineering, and even business operations. They’re embedded with our team. They understand our product. They move fast. They’re simply invaluable.
Great consulting firms for scaling security, compliance, and appsec.
Outstanding partner in Technical and Cyber Due Diligence
Appsec maturity and application hardening.
BD Emerson helped us simplfiy our compliance management.
BD Emerson did such a phenomenal job. What started as privacy support quickly became a full partnership across compliance, engineering, and even business operations. They’re embedded with our team. They understand our product. They move fast. They’re simply invaluable.
We had a hard time finding the right company to partner with in support of our compliance journey. Some vendors sell the idea that they do the work, but then you end up doing everything. The ambiguity is what killed our last project. BD Emerson’s team has such great technical knowledge and understands the standard so well that they made us comfortable with moving fast. This has led to us closing major enterprise customers that were previously out of reach because of security and compliance.
Lead an enterprise initiative to overhaul the organization's technology stack from ecommerce, corporate tech, and corporate security.
Supported ISO 42001 exercise and served as internal auditor.
Rubrik's privacy and compliance team began with the backbone of BD Emerson. BD Emerson supported building out the privacy program, GRC (ISO 27001, SOC 2, CMMC, FedRAMP), and the appsec function.
We needed a partner who could move quickly, without sacrificing precision. BD Emerson brought the expertise, structure, and speed we were looking for. Their team became an extension of ours, embedding themselves across the organization, guiding us step by step, and giving us confidence in areas we hadn’t tackled before. The internal audit they conducted was so detailed that even the external auditors called it out. Achieving ISO 27001 with zero nonconformities says everything you need to know about the quality of the partnership.
We had a hard time finding the right company to partner with in support of our compliance journey. Some vendors sell the idea that they do the work, but then you end up doing everything. The ambiguity is what killed our last project. BD Emerson’s team has such great technical knowledge and understands the standard so well that they made us comfortable with moving fast. This has led to us closing major enterprise customers that were previously out of reach because of security and compliance.
Lead an enterprise initiative to overhaul the organization's technology stack from ecommerce, corporate tech, and corporate security.
Supported ISO 42001 exercise and served as internal auditor.
Rubrik's privacy and compliance team began with the backbone of BD Emerson. BD Emerson supported building out the privacy program, GRC (ISO 27001, SOC 2, CMMC, FedRAMP), and the appsec function.
We needed a partner who could move quickly, without sacrificing precision. BD Emerson brought the expertise, structure, and speed we were looking for. Their team became an extension of ours, embedding themselves across the organization, guiding us step by step, and giving us confidence in areas we hadn’t tackled before. The internal audit they conducted was so detailed that even the external auditors called it out. Achieving ISO 27001 with zero nonconformities says everything you need to know about the quality of the partnership.
BD Emerson didn’t just help us meet our compliance goals; they integrated security and privacy into the core of our operations. I highly recommend BD Emerson to anyone seeking SOC 2 or GDPR compliance, or simply looking to enhance their security team and boost customer trust in their product and services. Their dedication and expertise have been invaluable to our success.
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BD Emerson understood our business requirements and worked side-by-side with us. The policies and controls we developed together not only meet compliance standards but improve how we operate day to day.
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From day one, BD Emerson brought urgency, clarity, and a sharp understanding of what truly matters to our business — earning and keeping customer trust. They went beyond helping us meet compliance requirements; they helped build a foundation for secure, scalable growth. That kind of partnership is rare.
BD Emerson didn’t just help us pass an audit—they helped us build a sustainable culture of security.
BD Emerson was essential in helping our company navigate the daunting process of leveling up our security infrastructure. BD Emerson’s impressive expertise and confidence throughout the process helped our team exceed HIPAA and SOC 2 Type 1 standards quickly, distilling what can be an overwhelming process into a streamlined, organized effort. From day one they began adding value and getting us on course. With their help we delivered on a massive security overhaul with both extreme efficiency and thorough attention to details. Because of BD Emerson’s support, we’ve increased our clients’ trust in Titan Intake and the life-changing work it accomplishes for those seeking specialist referrals.
BD Emerson didn’t just help us meet our compliance goals; they integrated security and privacy into the core of our operations. I highly recommend BD Emerson to anyone seeking SOC 2 or GDPR compliance, or simply looking to enhance their security team and boost customer trust in their product and services. Their dedication and expertise have been invaluable to our success.
BD Emerson understood our business requirements and worked side-by-side with us. The policies and controls we developed together not only meet compliance standards but improve how we operate day to day.
From day one, BD Emerson brought urgency, clarity, and a sharp understanding of what truly matters to our business — earning and keeping customer trust. They went beyond helping us meet compliance requirements; they helped build a foundation for secure, scalable growth. That kind of partnership is rare.
BD Emerson didn’t just help us pass an audit—they helped us build a sustainable culture of security.
BD Emerson was essential in helping our company navigate the daunting process of leveling up our security infrastructure. BD Emerson’s impressive expertise and confidence throughout the process helped our team exceed HIPAA and SOC 2 Type 1 standards quickly, distilling what can be an overwhelming process into a streamlined, organized effort. From day one they began adding value and getting us on course. With their help we delivered on a massive security overhaul with both extreme efficiency and thorough attention to details. Because of BD Emerson’s support, we’ve increased our clients’ trust in Titan Intake and the life-changing work it accomplishes for those seeking specialist referrals.
