We live in a 21st century economy whose greatest asset is data. Acquiring large amounts of data from intellectual property to customer preferences is the opportunity presented by merger and acquisitions these days. At the same time, data’s importance means that managing cybersecurity risk on deals is now a critical concern for dealmakers. What would the impact have been to your organization had you acquired Colonial Pipeline a few months prior to the devastating ransomware attack that shut down their pipeline? How do we engage in a better process of cybersecurity due diligence on a deal?

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