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A unique cyber insurance facility for portfolio companies.

Cyber risk is no longer just an operational concern. For private equity sponsors and portfolio companies, it can affect diligence speed, deal value, operating performance, and exit readiness. A cyber incident can disrupt transactions, delay growth plans, increase unplanned costs, and reduce valuation at the point of exit.

CyberPort® helps private equity sponsors and portfolio companies understand, measure, manage, and respond to cyber risk across the investment lifecycle. The platform combines risk transfer, analytics, modeling, claims advocacy, and cybersecurity services to help clients focus on the risks that matter most.

Why CyberPort

CyberPort is built for the realities of private equity ownership. Instead of treating cyber as a one-time diligence exercise, it supports a lifecycle approach — helping deal teams, operating partners, and portfolio company leaders make faster, better-informed decisions from pre-close through exit.

It brings together:

Proprietary coverage options designed for sponsors and portfolio companies

Dedicated cyber claims advocacy and incident support

Portfolio-wide analytics and modeling to guide decisions

Cybersecurity and loss control support to help improve resilience

Improved financial efficiency through clearer risk narratives and portfolio purchasing

CyberPort benefits and features across the investment cycle:
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Cyber diligence aligned to deal speed

Cyber risk has become a material transaction issue. Once a deal is in the market, both sponsors and targets can face increased phishing, intrusion, and information security exposure.

CyberPort supports rapid current-state assessments that prioritize speed without sacrificing insight. It helps teams:

  • Understand where a target stands before close
  • Leverage any available existing analyses 
  • Frame findings against relevant regulatory and industry dynamics
  • Identify issues that could affect execution, valuation, or post-close planning

Actionable insights for portfolio risk management

During the hold period, cyber incidents can disrupt operations, damage client trust, and create reputational pressure that affects future exit options.

CyberPort combines analytics, services, and insurance solutions to help sponsors and portfolio companies:

  • Prioritize the most important cyber controls and investments
  • Improve underwriting outcomes through stronger risk visibility
  • Strengthen resilience over time with actionable insights
  • Support potentially better claims outcomes and faster recovery if an incident occurs

For portfolio companies, CyberPort can improve breadth of coverage, placement efficiency, and incident response readiness through a proprietary policy structure tailored to portfolio needs.

Protect value at the point of sale

Cyber preparedness is a critical part of exit readiness. Weaknesses or undisclosed incidents uncovered during buyer diligence can delay transactions and reduce valuation.

CyberPort supports value protection at exit with:

  • Cybersecurity reporting designed to support diligence
  • External privacy and dark web scanning
  • Structured reporting to facilitate transactional risk insurance procurement
  • An exit protection facility of up to US$100 million to help protect value during the period between deal announcement and transaction completion

Cyber insurance and risk management for portfolio companies

Cyber insurance is a key part of a resilient cyber risk program — but not all policies and solutions are the same. Coverage terms, supporting services, and claims handling can materially affect outcomes.

CyberPort is designed to improve:

  • Coverage breadth and terms
  • Placement efficiency, including streamlined excess placement options
  • Reinstatement options after a claim
  • Support for unique cyber exposures
  • Claims advocacy and loss control services
  • Recovery for cyber-related business interruption events

Actionable analytics and cybersecurity support

CyberPort includes analytics and loss control support to help clients make confident decisions about where to invest and how to measure progress.

It combines:

• Fund- and portfolio-level modeling

• A digital cyber self-assessment tool that serves as a single-entry point to deeper analytics and insights

• Cybersecurity and loss control support from experienced professionals

• Insights that help contextualize cyber risk and prioritize investments

Explore CyberPort more deeply

Read more to learn about how CyberPort can help both private equity firms and portfolio companies optimize their cyber risk exposure across the investment lifecycle.

Why Marsh

As specialists in enterprise risk and in cyber, we can help you take an enterprise-wide approach in building your cyber resilience. Together, we identify your risks, and work with you to develop a program tailored to your circumstances. We inform your approach and decision-making process with our more than 25 years of cyber experience and data-driven insights. By doing so, your path to cyber resilience can be more productive and predictive and your outcomes more efficient and effective.

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