The financial and organizational realities of two organizations merging or a smaller company being acquired by a larger one are profound. It’s critical to understand how to value, assess, protect and properly transition assets. Conducting thorough and reasoned cyber due diligence is an often overlooked but critical step in the cadence of M&A groundwork to a successful transaction.

“Having spent five years at Wickr I was ready for a set of new challenges. It’s been really rewarding and fun to address a lot of the possible issues of the day in my role at Wickr,” DeTrani told Corporate Counsel. “But focusing on threats that exist within enterprises and how to help solve those threats is where I saw myself spending more time in the future. That’s why it made sense to transition to Nisos.”

Cyber services and investigations firm Nisos has raised $6 million in funding from Columbia Capital. Jason Booma, a Partner at Columbia, is joining Nisos’ board of directors, along with David Northington, who was most recently managing director at Accenture.

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