Client
Global alternative asset manager
Industry
Financial services and alternative investments
Primary goal
Streamline cybersecurity and privacy frameworks
Technologies
KPMG Assessment Platform and KPMG Assessments AI
MAKE cyber streamlined
The global alternative asset manager recognized the need to streamline the cyber assessment process across its portfolio companies. This is how KPMG in Canada helped implement a comprehensive self-assessment to ensure a consistent and integrated view of cybersecurity.
Single assessment
Eliminates duplication across frameworks and requirements
Automated execution
Speeds data collection and improves consistency
Standardized insights
Enable a unified view of cyber risk across the portfolio
Scalable approach
Supports growth without increasing assessment complexity
Client transformation journey
- Before
- During
- After
Complex, manual processes limiting a unified view of risk
A global alternative asset manager faced increasing complexity in assessing cybersecurity and privacy risk across its portfolio companies. Each portfolio company was subject to different frameworks, regulatory requirements and levels of cybersecurity maturity.
Conducting multiple assessments across numerous standards was inefficient and difficult to scale, limiting the firm’s ability to gain a consistent view of cyber risk and ensure that portfolio companies were cyber secure.
The organization wanted to streamline cybersecurity and privacy assessments, moving from multiple rounds of evaluation to a single, comprehensive assessment program that could address multiple frameworks at once.
Automating assessments and replacing fragmented processes to drive scale, speed and consistency
KPMG worked closely with the client to implement the Super Assessment Program, consolidating multiple cybersecurity and privacy assessments into a single, integrated “assess once, satisfy many” approach. The objective was to provide a consistent, unified view of cyber risk across the organization’s portfolio while reducing duplication and inefficiencies.
The solution was enabled by KPMG’s Assessments AI, integrated with the firm’s internal assessment tool or KPMG’s Assessment Platform.
Using a phased delivery approach, KPMG supported the full life cycle of the program:
- Plan: Identified key stakeholders across cybersecurity. Privacy domains and aligned scope with organizational goals and priorities.
- Design: Developed a tailored question superset aligned to the firm’s assessment requirements and triaged portfolio companies to generate actionable insight
- Execute: Leveraged automation to conduct assessments efficiently and consistently across the portfolio.
- Analyze: Reviewed documentation including policies, processes and reports to evaluate control effectiveness and maturity.
A unified, scalable approach enabling clearer insight into cyber risk
Today, the organization operates with a streamlined assessment program that provides a consistent and integrated view of cybersecurity and privacy risk across their portfolio companies. Multiple, fragmented assessments have been replaced with a single, automated process.
The new model helped reduce duplication, improve efficiency and support more consistent evaluation across frameworks and regulatory requirements. Portfolio operations teams can now execute assessments at scale while gaining deeper, more comparable insights across portfolio into cybersecurity capability and maturity.
In this case study, this approach has enhanced visibility into cyber risk and strengthened risk-based decision-making across the portfolio.
It also provides a scalable foundation for continued growth, allowing new and existing portfolio companies to be assessed consistently without increasing complexity.
Governance and reporting have been strengthened as well, helping leadership proactively manage cyber risk with confidence through both portfolio-level and investment-level insights – including comparative analysis across portfolios, geographies and industries.
How we make the difference for this global alternative asset manager
By combining deep cybersecurity, privacy and regulatory expertise with intelligent automation, KPMG helped this organization move beyond fragmented assessments toward a more unified, scalable model. Through an “assess once, satisfy many” approach, and we helped simplify how cybersecurity risk is evaluated across an entire portfolio of companies.
Connect with KPMG to explore how a streamlined, scalable assessment approach can help unlock greater insight and efficiency and reduce cyber risk across your portfolio and your organization.
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