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Key Takeaways Vendor due diligence assesses a third party’s risk before you grant access to data, systems, or customers. The 2026 Verizon DBIR found that third parties were involved in 48% of confirmed breaches, up 60% in a single year. Diligence depth should scale with vendor criticality. No team can deep-dive every supplier, and treating … Read more
Due diligence: two words that are at the heart of virtually every business dealing. In a capital-raising phase for your company, potential investors or venture capital firms no doubt want to have a pretty clear picture of your company’s assets and liabilities, both financial and otherwise. The due diligence performed by a venture capitalist (VC) … Read more
A trade sale is one of the strategies commonly used when a company is looking to divest its interest in a particular asset. As the name suggests, it involves finding a particular buyer to trade with. Once a buyer is found, the controlling interest in the asset in question is handed over in exchange for … Read more
Anyone who takes the time to create a PDF file usually wants the contents to be protected to some extent. If you didn’t care about anyone tampering with the document, you would simply share the Word document or Excel spreadsheet. Unfortunately, today changing the contents of a PDF is something anyone can do using Microsoft … Read more
Audit logs are a vital tool for ensuring the software and systems an organization relies upon are all operating smoothly and effectively. Audit logs can be generated automatically at specific time periods, automatically when an event triggers a log to be generated, or they can be generated manually by a database administrator or network manager. … Read more
by David Weedmark For years, VDRs have been the standard for mergers and acquisitions. The same qualities that make them ideal for organizing, accessing and sharing sensitive information in a secure and confidential manner during M&As have also made them ideal for investment banks to manage their own information and banking transactions (M&A transactions). … Read more
There are two things information security consultants are all-too-familiar with seeing: The look of despair on a client’s face just after they’ve suffered a network security breach. How that same client appears when their network security gaps are remediated, and they discover new ways for secure document sharing. Just like with any technology, security measures … Read more
Cybersecurity for business is a complicated topic. It always has been. But all too often, people believe cybersecurity is simply a few antivirus and security programs being in place and little more. In all reality, a lack of proper knowledge surrounding cybersecurity is often one of the biggest factors in any breach. The 2020 State … Read more
In the world of M&A, one of the most important processes is that of the Q&A period (also commonly referred to as “due diligence”). Because the due diligence phase of the deal is vital to the entire process, it generally is the most complex and time-consuming portion of the transaction. This is because it allows … Read more
Audit logs are a vital tool for ensuring the software and systems an organization relies upon are all operating smoothly and effectively. Audit logs can be generated automatically at specific time periods, automatically when an event triggers a log to be generated, or they can be generated manually by a database administrator or network manager. … Read more
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