A typical mid-cap Private Equity fund may be tracking up to 100 potential acquisition targets at any one time. Monitoring these companies early provides visibility of long-term cyber security trends and helps identify critical risks that could affect a transaction (e.g. a database compromise) or undermine value (e.g. intellectual property loss).
Thomas Murray’s Orbit Security platform offers non-intrusive, continuous monitoring - without alerting the target company.

External Attack Surface Monitoring
- Automated, external monitoring of companies to detect breaches, vulnerabilities and misconfigurations that could be exploited by threat actors
- 0–1000 ratings
- Long-term trend analysis
- Benchmarking against sector peers
Dark and Deep Web Monitoring
- Gain a competitive edge by examining areas most others do not
- Continuous monitoring of dark and deep web sources to identify exposed company data — including client information, employee credentials and intellectual property — as well as emerging threats
- Monitor domains, sub-domains and named individuals


Cybersecurity Checklist for Private Equity
For private equity partners and portfolio managers focused on value creation, understanding and mitigating cyber security risk is critical. This 10-step checklist demonstrates how to identify and quantify cyber risk at both portfolio and company levels—turning an intangible threat into measurable financial value.
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