Please join us on Friday July 10, 2026 for Super Cyber Friday.

Our topic of discussion will be “Hacking M&A: An hour of critical thinking about the questions nobody asks before signing.”

Joining David Spark, producer of CISO Series for this discussion will be:

Karl Mattson, founder and managing director, Squared Circle Ventures

In preparation for our discussion, think about the following:

What's the gap between what a target discloses during diligence and what your incident response team finds three months after close?

How does inherited security debt get priced into acquisition valuation when the security team isn't part of the negotiation?

How do you assess a target's real security culture during a diligence window that's designed to produce a green light?

Who owns access governance during the 18 months when two directories coexist and both teams assume the other one is handling it?

What compliance obligations transfer at signing, and which ones have grace periods that counsel assumes exist but regulators don't honor?

How should security leaders handle the gap between what legal says was disclosed and what a forensics team would find?

Why do CISOs routinely find out about acquisitions after term sheets are signed, and what does that say about how seriously security is taken at the deal table?

How do you push back on a strategically valuable acquisition when the security risk is real but the business case is politically untouchable?

It all starts at 1 PM Eastern/10 AM Pacific. At the end of the hour [2 PM Eastern/11 AM Pacific] we'll switch gears to our meetup where everyone will get a chance to chat face to face.

We play games during the show, and some players can win prizes! Players in the US can receive prizes as gifts; those outside the US can win gift cards.

Super Cyber Fridays are open discussions where all viewers and listeners are welcome to become participants. Before the scheduled event, connect your webcam and microphone (avoid Bluetooth). During the discussion, if you have a question or comment, let it be known in the chat room and our producer will do his best to get as many of you into the conversation. We look forward to you joining us.

"Hacking M&A" - Super Cyber Friday