Keeping your cloud environments secure during a merger or acquisition
2025-07-01 , Room 1

Acquiring another company can be hard. Acquiring another company with an existing cloud environment can be even harder.

The organization you are acquiring will almost certainly be doing some things differently than yours in the cloud. Their cloud environment could be less mature than yours (or more mature for that matter). Best practices can change over time. Other factors that are not specific to your cloud environment can still impact it. All of these things can introduce new security risks to your cloud environment, and some of them in ways you may not expect.

In this talk, we will discuss some of the possible complicating factors when migrating another organization's cloud environment to your own, and strategies for mitigating them.

Isaac is a security engineer with a background in a variety of areas of security, including cloud security, automation, threat intelligence, and anti-phishing. He has worked for Proofpoint and Capital One in various security roles.