cyber risk

Digital Transformation: The journey to integrate people, technologies and new ways of working.
Presented by Willis Towers Watson, a Partner of the M&A Leadership Council

We are pleased to invite you to the second edition of Willis Towers Watson’s M&A Forum which will be held in Toronto on October 4. This full-day conference will be dedicated to human capital challenges faced within digital transformation and will provide an opportunity for participants to share experiences among peers.

Time to Move from Compliance to Risk Assessment
By Kristin Winford - Managing Director of Transformation and Growth for BDO, an M&A Leadership Council Partner

As the recent WannaCry and Petya cyber-attacks have demonstrated, cyber risk continues to pose a significant threat to organizations across the globe. Cybersecurity is a critical business function, yet, paradoxically, cyber risk is often insufficiently examined – or even overlooked – during the merger and acquisition (M&A) due diligence process. This often results in the acquiring company unwittingly assuming risk and placing assets in jeopardy.