When the target has no security team, we deploy one.
Close creates ownership of an environment you don't yet control. FieldOps puts experienced acquisition security practitioners into that environment—onsite or remote—to establish facts, contain risk and stand up the minimum controls integration depends on.
Acquisition Security Baseline Deployment.
A target may be strategically attractive and still be unsafe to connect. The baseline is the minimum necessary control set that must exist before the acquired environment receives enterprise trust—aligned to the CIS Critical Security Controls' essential cyber hygiene, documented, validated and exception-tracked.
B-01Asset & identity discovery
Establish what actually exists: devices, accounts, applications, cloud tenants, external services and who can access what.
B-02MFA & privileged-access baseline
Enforce multi-factor authentication, contain privileged accounts, and remove departed-user and orphaned access.
B-03Endpoint / EDR deployment
Deploy detection and response tooling and validate real coverage—not just license counts.
B-04Vulnerability scan & critical fixes
Scan the estate, remediate critical and internet-facing exposure first, and schedule the rest.
B-05Backup, logging & escalation
Validate that backups restore, logs exist somewhere central, and an incident on night one has a phone number attached.
B-06External exposure & remote access
Review internet-facing services, VPNs and vendor connections; close what shouldn't be open.
B-07Data & regulatory triage
Locate sensitive and regulated data, confirm immediate obligations, and flag compliance exposure for the deal team.
B-08Exceptions & the 100-day plan
Everything not fixed is documented as a tracked exception with an owner and a date—feeding directly into integration.
How a deployment runs.
FieldOps is built for the reality of newly acquired companies: partial documentation, stretched staff, and business operations that cannot stop for security.
Orient and access
Confirm scope with the deal team, establish safe administrative access, and brief target staff on what happens and why—FieldOps works with the acquired team, not around them.
Discover and stabilize
Run discovery across identity, endpoints, network and cloud. Contain the riskiest findings immediately: exposed services, unmanaged privileged accounts, missing MFA on critical systems.
Deploy the baseline
Stand up the control set—B-01 through B-08—validating each with evidence rather than assumption.
Report and hand off
Deliver the baseline attestation: controls established, validated coverage, documented exceptions, and the 100-day remediation plan with named owners.
Connectivity is a decision, not a default.
The most common post-acquisition mistake is granting enterprise trust to an environment nobody has verified. The baseline gives the acquirer an evidence-based answer to one question: is this environment safe enough to connect—and if not yet, what specifically remains?
Deployment options
- Onsite practitioners at the acquired location
- Remote deployment for cloud-centric targets
- Hybrid: onsite lead with remote engineering
- Standing capability for serial acquirers with a repeatable playbook
Closing soon on a target with no security team?
Tell us the close date and locations. We'll propose the deployment model and what the baseline will cover.