Today's organizations are embracing new technologies to enhance operational efficiencies and deliver improved experiences to their customers. But this puts them at increased risk of cyber threats. Private equity funds investing in organizations are seeking to better understand and quantify cyber risk in order to better determine the viability of a target company and create value by improving a portfolio company's cybersecurity.

In this episode of Risk in Context, Marsh's Paul Knowles, David Hau, Jeff Bird, and Allison (Allie) Pan discuss the cyber-related challenges that private equity funds may come across, including difficulties linking a target's cybersecurity posture to financial decision-making, and the importance of collaboration to improve an organization's cyber hygiene as a value-creation strategy.

You can access a transcript of the episode here.

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