Discerno Cyber

Discerno Cyber provides AI-native cybersecurity diligence for M&A built around two ideas deal teams already understand: focus and sequencing, to deliver value earlier in the process before terms are set. Focus starts with the deal thesis. What are you buying, and what cyber failure could impair that value? An IP acquisition, AI capability, customer-data play, acqui-hire, roll-up, or platform expansion should not receive the same cyber review. Discerno maps the thesis to the assets at risk, likely failure modes, material controls, and evidence needed to support a deal decision. Sequencing means the analysis deepens as deal certainty increases. Early in the process, buyers need fast, low-cost signal from public information and available target materials before leverage disappears. As the deal advances, Discerno expands into SOC 2, PCI, SIG and other trust documents, questionnaires, interviews, and deeper control review. The point is not to run a full cyber assessment earlier. The point is to run the right analysis at the right depth at the right time. Every stage produces deal-relevant output: technical finding - business impact - deal-term input. That can mean a valuation discount, purchase price adjustment, escrow holdback, indemnity, representation and warranty, termination trigger, or post-close remediation plan. Discerno is powered by responsible AI and grounded in doctoral research on thesis-driven cybersecurity due diligence. AI lets us process more evidence earlier with appropriate context. Our proprietary methodology keeps this work reviewable, repeatable, and tied to the transaction. Cyber diligence should not be a late blocker or generic remediation report. It should help buyers protect the thesis, spend diligence dollars in proportion to deal certainty, and change terms before leverage is gone. Incremental Diligence - Scoped to the thesis. Staged to the deal. Built for the people who price it.