Price cyber risk before you sign.
The M&A Value Calculator translates your target’s cyber profile into deal language: risk band, financial exposure ranges, hidden follow-on costs and the observed purchase-price band — based on documented cases and public industry data.
About 3 minutes · no registration · runs in your browser · all inputs as bands
encountered a critical cyber issue during an M&A process that put the deal at risk.
Forescout study 2019, 2,779 respondents
of M&A professionals factor cyber readiness into target valuation.
(ISC)² study 2019, 250 US M&A professionals
purchase-price reduction in the Verizon–Yahoo case after disclosure of security incidents.
SEC filing, February 2017
Five inputs on the transaction — all values as bands, no exact figures required.
No score theatre. Ranges with sources.
Most risk calculators produce a single number from a black box. This model does the opposite: every constant has a public source, every assumption is declared, every output is a range — the way an investment committee expects numbers.
Loss bases and likelihood weights rest on continuously maintained standard sources — including IBM Cost of a Data Breach 2025, Verizon DBIR 2026, Sophos 2025 and SEC-, ICO- and FTC-documented precedents. Report years are disclosed in the result.
A single point value would be dishonest on this data basis. All monetary values appear as conservative ranges; the more questions you cannot answer, the wider they get — visible through the Blind Spot Index.
The result translates risk into the quantities deal teams work with: enterprise-value bands, escrow and indemnity mechanics, W&I references, day-1 priorities.
The calculator assesses the structure of your deal — not the actual target. It does not replace an assessment; it shows where one should start and what is at stake.
Behind the model stands the assessment methodology of Woodlands Advisory: founder-led mandates, delivered by a curated team of senior practitioners across cloud, identity, AppSec and compliance — structurally complemented by law-firm partners and external forensics.
Many clients combine multiple services – for maximum impact.
Growth needs security. Not someday – now.
Whether you face a transaction, need a certification or want to professionalise your security strategy – Woodlands delivers predictable results at boutique speed.
20 minutes. Confidential. No obligation.