“We engage Compello Partners for diligence and post-close integrations. They understand the PE playbook and focus early on the critical areas that impact investment decisions.”
Partner, Mid-Market Private Equity Firm ($1B AUM)
Private EquityYour portfolio companies get examined by customers, auditors, insurers and, at exit, a buyer’s diligence team. We find the risk, defend every company around the clock with 24/7 MDR, and keep the evidence audit-ready, so security adds to the exit story instead of discounting it.
Our private equity cybersecurity services are designed to protect the value of your investment. Our team will identify the risk before you buy, bring every company up to one standard after close, and monitor each business 24/7/365 through the hold, so you can exit with a security record that holds up to buyer diligence.
Portfolio security heat map
Platform company
Add-on 1
Add-on 2
Newest add-on
We review applications, infrastructure, security and the IT organization at each company, led by senior operators rather than a junior audit team.
Every finding is scored and placed on one portfolio heat map, then marked to remediate, accept or transfer, so the sponsor sees where the risk sits at a glance.
A sequenced plan with owners and legally defensible policies that the sponsor can hold each company to, and that we can carry out.
Each add-on arrives with its own tools, gaps and habits. We bring them all onto one cybersecurity standard: 24/7 monitoring and response, a fractional CISO accountable for the program, and one board-ready view of risk across the portfolio.
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Platform company
Add-on 1
Add-on 2
Compello Partners
Monitors, defends and governs every company to one standard
Platform company
Add-on
Add-on
Every company, including the next add-on, runs to the same standard
Everything your portfolio needs to stay secure and stay audit-ready, unified in one state-of-the-art program.
Managed detection and response on every endpoint, watched around the clock by a security operations center. Threats are contained as they happen, not found in next quarter’s review.
24/7/365 detection, monitoring and response
Incident and breach response, with specialist legal counsel brought in when needed
Tight help desk and security SLAs for accountability
A senior CISO who owns the security program, sets the roadmap and reports to the board, without the cost of a full-time hire. Interim cover when a deal or an audit needs it now.
Security strategy, governance and an annual roadmap
Risk reporting and quarterly reviews for the sponsor
Interim CISO through a carve-out, audit or leadership gap
Stolen logins and misconfigured cloud services are among the most common ways in. We lock down identity first, then secure the cloud and Microsoft 365 environments the business runs on.
MFA and Conditional Access, enforced company-wide
Cloud and Microsoft 365 security hardening
Security awareness training and phishing simulation
A senior-led review of applications, infrastructure, security and the IT organization, ending in a heat map and a prioritized roadmap. Every risk is marked to remediate, accept or transfer.
Security risk assessment, heat map and roadmap
Information security program and legally defensible policies
Vendor risk assessment and business continuity planning
AI tool and Shadow AI risk review
Find the weak points before an attacker, or a buyer, does. Scheduled scanning keeps the picture current, and penetration testing proves what an attacker could actually reach.
Monthly network and application vulnerability scanning
Penetration testing, with remediation support
Application security testing and source code review
The frameworks your customers, regulators and partners ask for, from the first gap assessment to a clean audit. We prepare the evidence and stay with the company through the audit.
SOC 2, ISO 27001, HITRUST, PCI DSS and FFIEC
CMMC Level 1 and 2 readiness (NIST 800-171)
Gap assessment, remediation and audit evidence prep
Know where personal and sensitive data lives, who can reach it and which laws apply, then put the controls in place to prove it’s handled correctly.
HIPAA, GDPR and GLBA compliance
PII inventory and privacy impact assessments
Data governance across US and global privacy laws
Insurers want proof of controls before they quote or renew. We close the gaps underwriters look for and pull the evidence together, so renewal doesn’t bring surprises.
Readiness review ahead of the application or renewal
Remediation of the controls insurers ask about
Evidence organized for underwriters
You don’t need to sign up for everything at once. Pick the moment that matters now, and we’ll build from there with one team and one security program.
“Is our firm ready for the next LP cyber questionnaire?”
LPs now probe cyber posture in operational due diligence, and regulators expect incident response and vendor oversight. We run the firm’s own IT and security, then extend the same standard across the portfolio.
LP cyber-readiness review and DDQ support
Incident response plan and wire-fraud controls
Managed IT and security for the firm
“What security risk are we buying?”
Before you sign, we review the target’s applications, infrastructure, security and IT organization, so cyber risk is priced into the deal and the first 100 days are already planned.
Security risk assessment and heat map
Red flags for the deal team before signing
Remediation roadmap for the first 100 days
“Can the new company stand on its own security?”
A carved-out business leaves its parent’s security behind. We write the policies, stand up the controls and provide an interim CISO so the TSA can end on schedule.
Information security policies, drafted and implemented
SOC 2 audit readiness
Interim vCISO through the transition
“How do we bring every add-on up to one standard?”
Each acquisition arrives with its own gaps. A fractional CISO integrates information and data security across the platform, so every company meets the same bar.
Fractional CISO to lead the integration
Identity, endpoints and monitoring on one standard
Certifications carried through, such as CMMC Level 2
“A key customer wants our SOC 2 report.”
When a contract depends on SOC 2, CMMC or PCI DSS, we run the gap assessment, close the gaps and prepare the evidence, so the audit lands on time.
Gap assessment against the framework
Remediation and policy build-out
Audit evidence prep and auditor support
“Our insurer sent a security questionnaire.”
Underwriters want evidence before they quote. We close the control gaps they look for and help the company answer with confidence.
Readiness review before renewal
Control gaps closed ahead of the application
Evidence organized for underwriters
“Will our security survive the buyer’s diligence?”
Buyers run cyber diligence too. We review the company the way a buyer will, fix what they’d find and have the documentation ready before the data room opens.
Buyer-style security review
Remediation before the data room opens
Policies, audit reports and evidence organized
Every framework answers to someone with leverage over the business. We work out which ones apply to each company, then take it from gap to audit.
Security reviews before they sign, and again at every renewal.
Privacy and data protection rules for financial and personal data.
Cybersecurity requirements across the defense supply chain.
The standard behind every business that takes card payments.
Assurance that protected health information is handled correctly.
Proof of controls before coverage is quoted or renewed.
Measure the company against the framework’s controls and size the work.
Close the gaps with policies, controls and technical fixes.
Assemble the evidence auditors and assessors will ask for.
Support through the audit, then keep it current for the next one.
“We engage Compello Partners for diligence and post-close integrations. They understand the PE playbook and focus early on the critical areas that impact investment decisions.”
Partner, Mid-Market Private Equity Firm ($1B AUM)
Private Equity“Compello isn’t a typical consulting group. They take the ‘Partner’ title seriously… they position us for our best future.”
CFO, $250M PE-Backed Financial Services Firm
Financial Services“Since partnering with Compello, I don’t hear about IT problems anymore. Their approach has streamlined our operations, saving us time and money.”
CFO, Healthcare Provider
Healthcare
As fractional CISO to a PE-backed financial services company since 2020, we led it to a clean SOC 2 report and keep the program current through every audit cycle.
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When a breach hit a PE-backed manufacturer with no security program, we guided leadership through the investigation, rebuilt its defenses and now run its security around the clock.
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Cutting an agricultural parts distributor’s PCI scope from SAQ-D to SAQ-A removed most of its audit burden while a new security program went in.
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It covers security across the whole investment: cybersecurity due diligence before you sign, security for carve-outs and integrations, 24/7 managed detection and response through the hold, compliance readiness and audits, and a security record that holds up at exit.
We run it as one program across the platform company and its add-ons, led by a fractional CISO and reported to the sponsor.
Both. We assess and advise, and we also run it day to day: 24/7 MDR and SOC monitoring, incident response, vulnerability scanning, and the fractional CISO who owns the program.
The team that finds the gaps is the team that closes them and keeps them closed, so findings don’t get handed to a new vendor.
In practice, very little: both give a company senior security leadership without a full-time hire. We provide fractional CISO leadership for the ongoing program, and interim CISO cover for a defined need, such as a carve-out, a merger integration or an upcoming audit.
SOC 2, ISO 27001, HITRUST, PCI DSS, FFIEC and CMMC Level 1 and 2 (NIST 800-171), plus privacy laws including HIPAA, GDPR and GLBA.
For each, we run the gap assessment, close the gaps, prepare the evidence and support the company through the audit.
Monthly network and application vulnerability scanning, penetration testing, application security testing, and architecture and source code review.
Testing feeds the same heat map and roadmap as the rest of the program, so findings get fixed rather than filed.
Buyers run cyber diligence, and the gaps they find can turn into price reductions, escrows or delays. A company with a current security program, clean audit reports and organized evidence gives a buyer less to discount.
Our exit readiness review looks at the company the way a buyer will, early enough to fix what they’d find.
Everything your private equity firm needs to create value with IT, from diligence to exit.
IT due diligence, carve-outs and TSAs, merger and add-on integration, and the PMO to run it.
Fractional and interim CIO, CTO, CISO and VP Ops.
Managed cybersecurity (MDR, SOC and vCISO), pen testing and compliance readiness.
Lean, supply chain and sourcing work that lifts EBITDA.
Bring Shadow AI under control with portfolio-wide policy, then build the AI use cases that pay off.
Help desk, NOC and Microsoft 365 on one portfolio standard.
NetSuite implementation, managed support and health checks.
Start with a security baseline: a senior-led assessment of each company’s risk, scored onto one heat map with a roadmap your team can act on.
