Leading cyber risk solutions company Resilience recently announced the launch of its “Private Equity Cyber Risk Program,” a new offering designed to help private equity (PE) firms manage cyber exposure across their portfolios. It connects Arc, Resilience’s cyber risk management platform for complex organizations, with bespoke insurance endorsements through carrier partners to address structural coverage gaps across the investment lifecycle.
Private equity firms operate in a fundamentally different risk environment than traditional enterprises. Security leaders are responsible for dozens of portfolio companies, each with distinct systems, controls, and reporting structures. Some report directly to the PE firm while others sit beneath additional parent entities that further obscure oversight.
As firms scale through acquisitions, divestitures, and shared infrastructure, that risk becomes increasingly concentrated and interconnected. Yet most still rely on fragmented, point-in-time assessments at the individual company level, with little to no regular flow of security data back to the firm.
In a constantly evolving threat landscape, this visibility gap is where exposure compounds—the distance between what was assessed at onboarding and what’s actually true today widens silently. Meanwhile, PE firms are operating within insurance models not designed for this level of complexity.
“Private equity risk transfer needs expose structural gaps in standard cyber policies. Coverage often lags behind acquisitions, Transition Service Agreements (TSA) create ambiguity, and broad control group definitions can extend unanticipated liability across entities. We’ve engineered our underwriting approach to address those gaps directly, providing immediate coverage for new acquisitions, explicit TSA support, and tighter control group definitions aligned to portfolio risk,” said Maria Long, Resilience’s Chief Underwriting Officer.
Resilience’s Private Equity The Cyber Risk Program is built to address insurance coverage at each stage of the deal lifecycle. At the first stage, the acquisition, the product provides immediate and retroactive coverage through carrier partners for newly acquired portfolio companies, including transitional services agreement support with clear liability carve-outs, while Arc enhances diligence with expedited cyber risk reports and premium indications, pre-close liability quantification to surface technical debt, and continuous vulnerability and dark web monitoring during onboarding.
During the hold period, the tool extends coverage for voluntary shutdowns, third-party service interruptions, and a 270-day restoration period, supported by 24/7 claims response and access to preferred legal and forensic panelists, while Arc delivers a centralized portfolio risk dashboard to rank entities by criticality, validate security programs, guide investment decisions, streamline renewals, and continuously monitor exposures.
At exit, tightly scoped control group definitions and continued vicarious liability coverage help PE firms cleanly sever exposure and protect valuation through close, supported by indemnification protections including forensic accounting assistance, while the Arc offering generates exportable “State of Cyber Risk” reports to validate security maturity and support valuation at exit.