M&A cyber diligence is the discipline that decides whether a strategic acquisition creates value or destroys it. A field guide to evidence-based diligence in 2026.

A serious executive tabletop is one of the highest-leverage investments a security program can make in 2026, and it bears almost no resemblance to the half-day theater most companies have settled for.

The question every CEO should be asking the CFO this year is not what the cyber budget is. It is whether the company has modeled, in dollars and in days, what the worst plausible cyber week would cost.