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Acquisitions can change ownership of security teams, systems, and data, creating risks around access, integration, compliance, and incident response.

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An acquisition is the purchase of a company, business unit, or technology by another organization, transferring control of its people, systems, and data. In information security, the event matters because the buyer may inherit unfamiliar networks, cloud services, software, credentials, suppliers, and unresolved security issues.

Before integration, security due diligence should identify exposed systems, critical vulnerabilities, active threats, prior incidents, and obligations governing personal or regulated data. After closing, teams must control access between environments, remove unnecessary accounts, verify asset ownership and logging, and bring inherited systems into vulnerability-management and monitoring processes. Connecting legacy infrastructure too quickly can create new attack paths, while poorly planned changes can hinder detection or incident response. Privacy and compliance reviews should confirm that data use, retention, and cross-border transfers remain lawful under the combined organization.

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US security agencies say the tools can give hackers control of ICS and SCADA devices Hackers have created custom tools to control a range of industrial control system (ICS) and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) devices, marking the latest threat to a range of critical infrastructure in the United States, according to several government agencies.…

More from The Register 15 Apr 2022, 1:31 a.m. Acquisition America Critical Infrastructure Government ICS Malware Operational Technology

The U.S. government on Wednesday warned of nation-state actors deploying specialized malware to maintain access to industrial control systems (ICS) and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) devices

More from The Hacker News 14 Apr 2022, 4:52 p.m. Acquisition Advanced Persistent Threat America Compromise Government ICS Malware Nation State Operational Technology Warning