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Value Preservation Advisory

Reduce Risk and Maintain Value

In private equity, “value preservation” refers to the strategic actions taken by a firm to maintain the current value of their portfolio companies, especially during challenging market conditions.

As your Value Preservation Ally, we partner with you to identify and manage cybersecurity, compliance and technology risks, and making proactive adjustments to protect against potential losses, essentially aiming to “preserve” the existing value of the investment.

Our Value Preservation Advisory services include a comprehensive and proactive risk management approach to eliminate business impacting cyber incidents, maintain regulatory compliance and safeguard information assets.

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Manage Risk Proactively

Assess the Situation
Prioritized, business focused security risk remediation plans focused on preserving enterprise value.

Mature Security Posture
Identify gaps in risk so you know the best way to bolster capabilities and stay compliant.

Continuous Compliance
Real-time monitoring and reporting for continuous compliance.

Increase Cyber Resilience
Proactively prepare to respond to a cyber incident and restore operations with greater confidence.

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Value Preservation Advisory at a Glance
Protect – Detect – Respond

Risk Assessments
Designed with an emphasis on its ability to defend against and respond to modern cybersecurity threats, our risk assessments deliver a detailed review of the information security program—from policies and procedures to technical controls, including people, processes and technologies. Clients receive an executive summary level report to communicate the security posture and critical risks to senior management and the remediation plan to close the gaps affecting its information assets and to mitigate the risk of suffering a security breach.

Compliance and Control Assessments
Our experts have in-depth knowledge of the compliance and regulatory expectations from their prior roles as practitioners that bring years of frontline experience with real-world compliance matters. This unique vantage point ensures we assess strengths and risks in the context of your operational priorities, risk tolerances and threat landscape to stay ahead of regulatory requirements and protect your business from potential risks of noncompliance. Clients receive an executive summary level report to that provides pragmatic insights for proactive or remedial strategies that strengthen and improve your cyber resiliency.

Cybersecurity Insurance Readiness and Optimization
Based on our vast experience in assessing risk assessment throughout the investment lifecycle from due diligence to remediating gaps to pre exit planning, our experts collaborate with you to prepare and ready your organization with a tailor-made risk and cybersecurity program that optimizes your cybersecurity insurance premiums. By taking proactive and purposeful approach, we help you to establish appropriate security controls while demonstrating to insurance providers that your organization is committed to maintaining a cyber resilient environment.

Penetration Testing and Vulnerability Management
A vulnerability scan is an automated process that identifies security weaknesses, while a penetration test (pen test) is a simulated attack that attempts to exploit those weaknesses. Both are important for cybersecurity defense. With a routine pen testing cadence, your organization can reduce cyber risk by finding vulnerabilities and addressing them before cybercriminals can compromise your infrastructure, systems, applications or personnel. Our vulnerability scans are a preventive measure that identifies and reports potential security weaknesses before they can be exploited. Our experts simulate real-world attacks to uncover vulnerabilities in your system, helping you patch weaknesses before they can be exploited ensuring your network and data are secure.

Third Party Audits and Reviews
In today’s interconnected world, your vendors’ security is your security. IT Ally’s specialized service conducts thorough IT security audits for your third-party vendors, identifying vulnerabilities and ensuring compliance with industry standards. We help ensure that your business partners – or companies you refer your customers to – hold the same high standards you have when it comes to data security. We can certify that these third parties are handling sensitive data in accordance with regulatory guidelines and industry standards.

Cloud Security Review
Combining our knowledge of cloud environments including interactions between your users and critical cloud services, we focus on reducing accidental data exposures, as well as preventing unauthorized actors from gaining access. We ensure that your cloud security program provides continuous validation and governance of your cloud environment and integrate overall security best practices with measures that are customized to your organization’s specific cloud architecture and risk tolerance.

Policy Development and Incident Response Planning
Our expert service crafts customized cybersecurity policies that align with your business needs and industry standards in a variety of areas, including information asset management, acceptable use policies, data classification, threat and vulnerability management and third-party management. We accelerate your ability to establish a strong security foundation and incident response plans to ensure your business remains resilient in the face of unexpected disruptions in critical operations and unauthorized access of sensitive data by a threat actor.

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Your Value Preservation Ally

We’re here to help you protect and preserve the existing value of your investment. Contact us today to learn more.

Business Advisory

Joseph Dunsmore, Lead Growth Advisor

Michael Fillios,
Founder and CEO