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Industry Voice: Private equity’s cyber dichotomy

by Alice Murray 20 September 2018

Agio CEO Bart McDonough outlines private equity’s paradoxical relationship with cybersecurity, and explores the four largest threats facing the industry today.

While the private equity industry sees clear value to investing in cybersecurity firms, it has been paradoxically slow to adopt the cybersecurity services and governance offered by their portfolio companies. Now more than ever, limited partners including pension funds and endowments are demanding fund managers assess, report and mitigate cybersecurity risks in their firms as a prerequisite for providing any capital to invest.

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