Use case · De-risk Mergers and Acquisitions

See the target's real attack surface before close.

Security diligence usually ends with a questionnaire and a number that nobody verified. KeyCaliber reads the target's existing security tools and shows what is actually there — before the deal closes, and through the integration window when the combined estate is at its most exposed. Nothing to deploy in the target's environment.

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Three moments in a deal.

01

Before it closes

What the target is actually running

Diligence gives you a questionnaire, a policy binder and a number. None of it was produced by looking at the environment.

  • Their real asset count, taken from their own tools rather than from the spreadsheet someone assembled for the data room.
  • The internet-facing footprint, found from the outside in, including the hosts nobody mentioned standing up.
  • Shadow IT and unapproved AI already running in the business being acquired.
  • Gaps priced against what the affected systems are worth, so the findings arrive in the order a deal team cares about.
02

Through the integration

Two estates, one picture

The window between close and full integration is when the combined environment is least understood and most exposed. It is also when nobody can agree on how many machines there are.

  • Both environments in one deduplicated list, with each tool's view of an asset kept alongside the merged record.
  • The acquired systems no security tool is managing yet — the ones that fall between two IT organizations.
  • What connects to what across the new boundary, and what an intruder reaches from either side of it.
  • Findings ranked by business impact, so the riskiest integration work is the work that happens first.
03

Once the dust settles

What the combined estate can stop paying for

Every acquisition arrives with a security stack attached. Two endpoint products, two scanners, a firewall per business unit, and a renewal calendar nobody has reconciled.

  • Where two tools in the same category are both live, with the machines each one holds and the ones running both at once.
  • How much of the combined estate each product actually covers, rather than how much it was licensed for.
  • Which contract can lapse, and which one uniquely covers four hundred machines that would otherwise be left bare.
  • A neutral read. KeyCaliber connects to every tool in both stacks and sells you none of them.

The number in the data room is rarely the number.

Not because anyone is hiding it. The target's own teams are working from the same three consoles that disagree with each other, and nobody has ever had a reason to reconcile them.

Endpoints stated in diligence
4,200
Assets their own tools can see
6,850
Running no endpoint protection
900
Internet-facing hosts not in the diagram
37
Unapproved AI tools in use
11

Illustrative figures

Read-only access to the tools they already run. No agent, no proxy, no appliance, and nothing installed on a single machine in either estate. Connect in an afternoon, first picture in days — which matters when the diligence window is three weeks.

Find out what's really in the estate.

Connect read-only during diligence, or after close when two environments have to become one.

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