CYBER PORTFOLIO OVERSIGHT
Want to gain a competitive advantage, satisfy regulators, and attract and retain investments from LPs?
ACA has launched a NEW solution to help you build a cybersecurity portfolio oversight program to position your portfolio companies for success and:
• improve the ROI of risk management
• increase exit valuations
• manage operational expense
• increase (re)investment from LPs
• fulfill your oversight responsibilities with confidence
Complete the form to connect with us to learn about ACA Vantage for Cyber, the only cybersecurity product designed specifically for private equity, venture capital, real estate, and private debt portfolio oversight.
Protect your investments from cyber threats and reassure investors today!
Why Do I need a Cyber Portfolio Oversight Program?
- 55% of LPs state cybersecurity risk assessments at PortCos will be a ‘must have’ within the next few years
- 82% of ransomware attacks target organizations with fewer than 1,000 employees
- And, while 80% of firms engage in some form of cybersecurity oversight, the majority are inconsistent, difficult to maintain and poorly governed.
There is a growing disconnect between current practices and what LPs, GPs and regulators care about when it comes to cyber oversight.
Team this with growing cyber-threats and increasing investor pressure require private equity and venture capital firms to be ever more vigilant.
Firms need to act now!
What Are The Common Roadblocks?
When speaking with clients, we hear that they face the following challenges:
- Knowing which PortCos actually need attention
- Lack of cybersecurity expertise
- Reconciling PortCo assessments
- A lack of buy-in on the value-add of oversight
- Securing funding for oversight efforts
- Overcoming a hands-off management culture
Working with ACA helps you overcome these issues. We provide:
- Oversight program definition and development to build an oversight program that is formally governed, applied consistently, and designed to grow valuations.
- Investment-weighted risk assessment puts investor decision making front and center, enabling benchmarking and fund-level risk aggregation.
Benefits of ACA's Cybersecurity Portfolio Oversight Program
With ACA Vantage for Cyber, you’ll gain ongoing visibility to monitor and oversee your portfolio companies’ cyber health, empowering you to improve the ROI of risk management, create value, and manage operational expenses.
Our expert advisors will help you to:
Work with investor relations to leverage LP expectations in program design
Alight oversight to acquisition value drivers to smooth exit diligence and increase valuations
Leverage economies of scale across your portfolio to reduce costs for you and your portfolio companies.
Improve the ROI of risk management
Increase exit valuations
Manage operational expense
Increase (re)investment from LPs
Fulfill your oversight responsibilities with confidence
Protect your investments and gain a competitive edge
We will help you build an oversight program that’s:
Formally governed
Applied consistently
Designed to grow valuations
ACA's Cybersecurity Portfolio Oversight Program Features
- Your Executive Advisor will meet with you monthly to help build and run a value-creating oversight program
- A dedicated Engagement Manager will project manage all your interactions with ACA Aponix to make your job easier
- Simple how-to advice for common activities such as obtaining cyber insurance across the portfolio
- Support for quarterly board / leadership presentations
- Anytime help interpreting assessment and scanning results
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Portco RealRisk assessment, available in three intensities
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Holistic advice that puts attention where it needs to be
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Annual review of your investment goals with yout Executive Advisor to ensure we are calibrating our advice to your context
- Real-time access to all assessment and scanning results is available via Portfolio Oversight Portal
- Ability to analyze and organize findings, create board-ready reports
- Track cyber program improvement projects at your Portcos.
- Pre-acquisition due diligence
- Advisory hour blocks
- Custom report formatting and reporting
- And more...
Why ACA?
We specialize in cybersecurity risk assessments, data privacy compliance services, vendor and M&A diligence services, portfolio company oversight, network testing, and advisory services for companies of all sizes. Our award-winning solutions are designed to help firms uncover risks and identify deficiencies in their cybersecurity policies, procedures, and controls.
Through our executive advisory service, we help firms design and run cyber portfolio oversight programs that are tailored to their investment context, meet LP, sponsor, and regulator expectations, manage downside risks, and grow the valuation of investments.
ACA has helped more than 100 private equity, venture capital, and hedge funds improve cybersecurity oversight of their investments.
End-to-end cybersecurity program for financial industries
Our award-winning technology, ComplianceAlpha, and proprietary “RealRisk” assessment methodology, provide continuous cybersecurity monitoring across the portfolio, making it easy for firms to understand where risks lie at their portfolio companies. Findings are available in real-time within a portal, giving operating partners and sponsors easy and digestible results to help guide and prioritize further action steps.
Improve the ROI of risk management, increase exit valuations, and manage operational expenses. Contact us today!
Suitable For:
Private Equity
Venture Capital
Real Estate
Private Credit
Private Debt
Complete the form to connect with us to learn about ACA Vantage for Cyber.