Cye Launches Center of Excellence for Private Equity to Accelerate Cybersecurity Resilience Across Their Portfolios

The new practice combines expert-led agentic services with Cye's AI-native platform to help PE firms manage portfolio companies' cybersecurity programs and their exposure from due diligence through the holding period to sale.

HERZLIYA, Israel, Sept. 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Cye, a leader in cyber exposure management, today announced the launch of its Center of Excellence for Private Equity (PE), with a new operating model designed to help private equity firms assess, manage and reduce cyber exposure across their portfolios throughout the investment lifecycle.  

Private equity firms and their portfolio companies are increasingly high-value operational targets for attackers. They concentrate capital, sensitive deal data and interconnected third-party providers, creating opportunities to disrupt transactions, steal sensitive information and exploit shared services by portfolio companies to achieve blast-radius impact.

Yet cybersecurity is often managed through point-in-time assessments at individual portfolio companies, leaving PE firms without a consistent, portfolio-wide view of their security posture, their organizational exposure or cyber resilience improvement throughout their holdings.

"Cybersecurity is becoming a powerful lever for creating enterprise value - not just a cost center to manage," said Reuven Aronashvili, CEO of Cye. "When firms can understand cyber exposure consistently across their portfolios and actively reduce it, they turn cybersecurity into a measurable driver of long term value to protect investments and increase acquisition multiples".

The Center of Excellence acts as the central operating hub for portfolio cybersecurity, standardizing execution across investments and applying cross-portfolio insights and actions to strengthen decision-making, operational support and continuous exposure reduction.

Cye combines its expert-trained AI-native exposure management platform and M&A related services to deliver continuous, portfolio-wide oversight with a unified system of record and reporting:

• Pre-Deal Scouting:
  Provides an early view of a target's cyber exposure before formal due diligence, surfacing red flags that could affect valuation, deal terms, or the decision to proceed.
• 360-degree Due Diligence:
  Provides a comprehensive view of a target's cyber exposure before acquisition, identifying acquisition blockers, negotiation levers, and risks that could affect the transaction.
• 90-Day Cyber Onboarding and Uplift Program:
  Establishes a clear post-acquisition cybersecurity baseline posture, prioritizes actions needed to address critical gaps, giving newly acquired companies a focused path to improving their security posture.
• Continuous Exposure Management:
  Continuously identifies, prioritizes, and reduces cyber exposure across portfolio companies, combining validated exploitability with business impact and mitigation planning to focus resources toward the actions that can most effectively reduce portfolio risk.
• PE-Level Management:
  Gives PE firms a centralized view of cyber exposure and maturity across their portfolio, enabling them to compare companies, identify those with elevated or deteriorating risk, prioritize investment, and track progress at the group level.
• Exit Readiness:
  Demonstrates measurable improvement in cyber maturity and exposure ahead of exit, providing evidence of exposure reduction and helping strengthen the firm's position in the transaction.

Cye's CoE for Private Equity is available to private equity firms globally.

Learn more about Cye's Private Equity offering 

About Cye

Cye is an AI‑native exposure management platform that reveals real‑world exploitable attack paths and quantifies business impact in financial context. Cye enables organizations to prioritize and act accurately - remediate, mitigate, or accept risk - with clarity and confidence amidst the dynamic threat landscape. Learn more at cyesec.com

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