Corporations around the globe are dealing with sophisticated cyberattacks involving nation-states and organized cybercrime syndicates. Recent studies have shown that cybercriminals can penetrate 93% of company networks, often in just two days.

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Data breaches and ransomware attacks on public companies tend to get more attention, but the risks are just as great for private equity firms. Their portfolio companies—often mid-market and less cyber-sophisticated—are also frequent targets.

PE firms and leaders need to be deeply engaged in the cyber resiliency of internal operations, portfolio companies, and transactions. Understanding today’s threats and essential risk management measures is critical to preserve and create value.

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Benefits

Zscaler helps private equity firms and portfolio companies by

Mitigating and controlling cyber risk with a turnkey, cloud native security as a service solution

Increasing cyber resiliency to better detect, prevent, and respond to cyberthreats

Improving EBITDA and digital value creation by consolidating disparate point solutions to simplify network and security stacks

Accelerating time to value for platform, add-on, and carve-out transactions with rapid integration to achieve scale and time to market

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Why It Matters

PE firms face new risks

Financial services are 300x more likely to be attacked than other industries

68% of business leaders believe their companies’ cyber risks are growing

92% of US businesses have seen cyberthreats grow with increased WFH

Data breaches now cost an average $3.86 million globally—$8.64 million in the US

Zscaler is the clear strategic choice for private equity firms

85%

reduction in your exploitable attack surface

50%

reduction in time to value during add-ons/tuck-ins

30-50%

reduction in legacy network and security infrastructure

70%

reduction in operational complexity via cloud native security as a service

Private equity engagement roadmap

Assess

Identify core PE firm/PortCo assets to protect

Secure

Deploy Zscaler to secure your environment/enable integration

Enhance

Boost the security and cyber maturity of PE firms and PortCo

Innovate

Identify value creation opportunities and drivers

Use Cases

We work with 6 of the top 10 global private equity firms to:

Modernize and accelerate secure transformation journeys

Protect their most critical assets—employees and investors

Enable their workforce to focus on deal value vs. operations

Identify value creation and optimization opportunities

We also work with hundreds of PE-backed portfolio companies to:

Integrate

Rapidly integrate tuck-ins and add-ons to accelerate time to value

Protect

Protect and preserve deal value by securing PortCo environments

Optimize

Optimize and simplify PortCo network and infrastructure landscape

Position

Position PortCos for smooth eventual exit with modernized security infrastructure

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Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures

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Securing Private Equity Investments, Increasing Cyber Resiliency, and Accelerating Deal Value with Zscaler

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Mitigate Cyber Risk While Increasing Deal Velocity for Private Equity Firms & Portfolio Companies

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Keynote Interview: Zero Trust for Private Equity Firms

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Zscaler for Private Equity: Buy Side Carve-out Stand-ups

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