Managing IT through an M&A process is one of the most complex challenges. This is because companies will typically need to move at least some of their applications to a different data center or to the cloud following the merger or acquisition. They may also need to merge duplicate applications, or replicate applications to new entities, and decommission the unnecessary ones to streamline operations and costs. In turn, this means that security policies will need to be changed or migrated to support the new connectivity, applications, servers and security controls – and all without creating security risks, outages or compliance violations. This creates a mass of complexity which, if not planned and implemented properly, can have a very serious impact on business operations.

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