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Autonomous AI Platform for Continuous Verification of Externally Testable ITGC & Cyber Due Diligence for Professional Firms

~ Visualizing Off-Balance-Sheet Cyber Liabilities in M&A & Proving Duty of Care with Objective Proof ~

IT Audit & DD Coverage

100%

Shifting from manual point-in-time sampling audits to 100% automated verification of the identified target population.

Value Add (New Revenue)

Premium DD

Provide advanced M&A cyber risk evaluations directly as high-margin advisory services.

Legal Defensibility

Automated Evidence

Automatically preserve cryptographically verifiable primary technical evidence logs to objectively prove management's duty of care.

INDUSTRY CHALLENGES

Three Major Challenges Professional Firms Face

Addressing the complexity of modern IT auditing and lack of visibility in M&A cyber risk

01

Formalized IT Auditing & Limits of Sampling

Annual checklists or simple questionnaires fail to detect rapid cloud updates or shadow IT. Relying on sample audits makes the basis of audit opinions highly vulnerable.

➔ LogosCyber continuously inspects all public assets monthly to secure objective evidence.
02

Overlooking "Off-Balance-Sheet Cyber Liabilities"

While legal and financial due diligence are thoroughly executed, critical API vulnerabilities and data leaks of the target are often missed, resulting in severe post-merger integration (PMI) financial losses.

➔ Run non-disruptive scans to evaluate target system vulnerabilities before M&A sign-off.
03

Difficulty Proving "Duty of Care" Post-Incident

When security breaches occur, proving in court or shareholder lawsuits that the management team acted with due care and implemented sufficient controls is extremely difficult.

➔ Proactively compile and preserve primary technical evidence logs and AI-proven logical proof daily.
AUDIT MECHANISM

From Point-in-Time to Continuous Auditing

Transitioning from manual sampling audits to monthly automated full verification

Traditional IT audits evaluate controls only at a single "Point in Time." Any configuration drifts, newly exposed APIs, or cloud misconfigurations made right after the audit go unnoticed for up to 364 days, creating a critical "audit blind spot."

Traditional Auditing Annual ITGC Audits (364 days of blind spots)

Vulnerabilities and API drifts remain unnoticed until the next annual review, resulting in exposure risks.

LogosCyber Continuous Audit 30-Day Cycle Automated Full Audit & Evidence Preservation

Automatically detect and preserve objective evidence of any control deviation within a maximum of 30 days.

TIMELINE COMPARISON

Audit Done (Jan)
⚠ Vulnerability Unnoticed (364 Days Blind Spot)
Incident Occurs (Dec)
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
(Captured)
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Dec
Max 30 days detection lag with automated packaging of primary technical evidence.
VALUE CREATION CYCLE

Next-Generation Legal Risk Management

Shifting from post-incident liability investigations to proactive control and evidence preservation

01

Continuous Risk Extraction

AI automatically maps out and discovers all target domains and API vulnerabilities monthly.

02

Remediation Guidance

Issue actionable instructions and guides for the client to remediate risks based on objective scanner data.

03

Automated Evidence Storage

Log AI validation trails, test scripts, and exact HTTP packet dumps into an cryptographically verifiable primary technical evidence database.

04

Enhanced Quality & Premium DD

Deliver high-margin advisory services and due diligence packages without scaling consultant headcount.

FINANCIAL ROI

Advisory Margins and Cost Savings

Slashing audit costs while creating new high-value advisory streams

IT Audit Labor Reduction

70%

Automate manual evidence gathering and compile reports with single-button operations

New Premium DD Margin

High Margin

Perform cyber DD internally on M&A targets without relying on third-party security vendors

Legal Defensibility

Raw Evidence

Unalterable logs ready for court or regulators, reducing external forensic costs

Business Improvement Areas Traditional Methods LogosCyber Platform
① Supporting Technical Verification of ITGC Checking controls manually via sampling. Heavy labor costs and lower margins. Substantially reduces hours while scaling coverage to 100% automated verification of the identified target population.
Monthly daemon collects proof and creates audit-ready drafts in one click.
② M&A Cyber DD In-sourcing Outsourcing cyber assessments to specialist boutiques, incurring heavy fees and timeline delays. Keep high-margin advisory revenues inside your firm.
Instantly map target vulnerabilities simply by inputting target domains.
③ Forensic & Litigation Readiness Gathering logs reactively post-breach takes weeks. Difficult to prove past state or "duty of care." Unalterable logs stored daily, enabling immediate defense formulation.
Generate objective proof of proper security controls matching audit specs.
BUSINESS USE CASES

Three Core Use Cases for Professional Firms

Expanding capabilities and maximizing advisory value without adding headcount

CASE 01

M&A / Investment Cyber Due Diligence

Input a target company's domain. Without requiring their internal credentials or causing load, the scanner maps all exposed APIs and cloud subdomains. This identifies "off-balance-sheet cyber liabilities" before transaction sign-off, providing leverage for valuation discounts or identifying deal-breakers.
CASE 02

Continuous Technical Verification in ITGC Audits

Audit client systems automatically on a monthly schedule. Move away from document-only annual sampling. Instantly catch configuration drifts or unmanaged cloud instances as "delta reports," supporting human auditors to maintain a continuous 100% verification coverage of the identified target population.
CASE 03

Litigation Defense & Proving Duty of Care

When data leaks occur, regulatory investigations or class-action suits focus on whether the board acted with due care. LogosCyber's pre-compiled, cryptographically validated raw HTTP logs provide the most resilient defense to prove that proper security checks were continuously executed.
AUDIT-GRADE LOGS

Audit-Grade Evidence Log Outputs

Sample format of preserved cryptographically verifiable primary technical evidence logs (RAW HTTP EVIDENCE)

Auditors retain absolute control over the audit conclusion. Based on the scope defined by human auditors, the AI agent formulates hypotheses, while a deterministic execution engine conducts safe technical scans. The resulting request/response payloads, timestamps, and hashes are logged in a cryptographically verifiable database, providing the primary technical evidence needed to support the auditor's professional judgment.

autonomous_audit_reasoning.log
Execution Target: api-gateway.target-ma-company.co.jp
[AUDITOR_SCOPE] Control Objective: CC6.3 (Logical access controls over public endpoints)
[AI_HYPOTHESIS] H1: "GraphQL API endpoint permits unauthenticated schema introspection (ITGC Vulnerability Hypothesis)."
[RUST_ENGINE_VERIFICATION] Safe non-destructive probe dispatched via proxy_guard. Status: 200 OK (38ms)
[AI_RISK_MAPPING] Technical Finding: Introspection Exposed (Potential Control Exception for CC6.3)
RAW_HTTP_EVIDENCE (Primary Technical Evidence)
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: 2026-08-24 07:50:00 JST
Content-Type: application/json
Connection: keep-alive
{"data":{"__schema":{"types":[{"name":"UserAccount"},{"name":"PaymentProfile"},...]}}}
[DIFF_ANALYSIS] Compared with previous baseline: NEW EXPOSURE DETECTED (M&A Risk Level: Critical)
[AUDITOR_REVIEW] Review Status: Awaiting Auditor Professional Judgment & Audit Conclusion
COMPLIANCE ALIGNMENT

Continuous Collection & Verification of Technical Evidence for ISO 27001 & SOC 2 Assessments

Direct alignment with Control A.8.8 (Management of technical vulnerabilities) and A.8.28 (Secure coding)

CONTROL A.8.8

Technical Vulnerability Management

Automates vulnerability mapping and response checking on exposed subdomains monthly. Instead of simple alert dumps, the engine outputs logical proof (Supported/Falsified) along with raw communication trace logs, supporting human auditors with timely response logs required by audit frameworks.

CONTROL A.8.28

Secure Coding Principles

Monitors both in-house and outsourced applications for structural defects (broken auth, exposed APIs) through continuous DAST scanning. Captured request/response payloads serve to complement the verification of secure coding practices as a non-destructive technical DAST validation.

SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE & OPSEC

Audit-Grade Security Architecture

Non-destructive execution control (OPSEC Kill-Switch) and complete data isolation

AI Specs & Rust Engine

AI is completely decoupled from traffic execution. The LLM generates YAML-based scan specs, and a deterministic Rust engine executes them, preventing AI hallucinations and enforcing rate limits, request budgets, scope enforcement, and circuit breakers directly within the execution engine to avoid target system degradation (Safety-by-Design).

② OPSEC Kill-Switch

During sensitive M&A stealth evaluations, a network watchdog (proxy_guard.rs) instantly kills all traffic if the proxy connection drops, preventing scanner IP exposure or accidental hits.

③ Massively Parallel Engine

A high-efficiency Rust runtime capable of running monthly audits across thousands of target domains simultaneously, natively integrating official Nuclei CLI binaries.

④ Air-Gapped / Private LLM

Optionally deploy within closed networks or on-premise environments. Target M&A data and scanning logs never leave the firm's strict governance boundaries.

ENTERPRISE PRICING & LICENSING

Licensing & Enterprise Pricing Plans

Firm-wide infrastructure integration and individual M&A deal licenses

M&A Cyber DD Blanket License

Tailored for FAS and transaction advisors

¥100M / Year (excl. tax)
  • • Run cyber due diligence across all target firms handled by the practice
  • • Up to 50,000 deal-scan slots per year
  • • Access to REST APIs
  • • Export automated primary technical evidence logs for audit/legal review
RECOMMENDED (TOP PLAN)

Firm-Wide Continuous Audit Platform

Integration for major accounting, audit, and legal networks

¥300M / Year (excl. tax)
  • ✔ Unlimited monitoring for all audit clients & legal retainers
  • ✔ Automated external attack surface mapping (EASM)
  • ✔ Monthly recurring automated audit queues
  • ✔ Automatic delta risk extraction reports
  • ✔ White-labeled ITGC technical verification reports generated automatically
  • ✔ Full API integration with internal audit databases
  • ✔ Unlimited user accounts for partners and associates

Pilot Validation PoC

Evaluate using 10 historical target cases

¥5M / One-time (excl. tax)
  • • Discover off-balance-sheet risks on 10 historical M&A targets (2-month run)
  • • Verification fee is fully refunded upon main contract signature
  • • Review exact output formats and evidence quality prior to purchase

Premium DD Advisory Revenue Simulator

Input your estimated annual M&A cases to estimate new advisory revenues by in-sourcing cyber DD.

New Advisory Revenue Estimation (Calculated at ¥3M per deal) ¥0 JPY / Year
FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Answering initial questions regarding integration and safety

ROADMAP & CONTACT

Request a Live Demonstration or PoC Run

Bring LogosCyber's continuous audit infrastructure online in as little as 2 months. We support 30-minute online walkthroughs of the active scanner, API-log setups, and legal evidence extraction. Contact us to coordinate PoC parameters or to review M&A cyber DD margins.

Step 1 Demo & PoC Months 1-2: Validation
Step 2 Workflow Alignment Pre-launch customization
Step 3 Licensing Activation Active scanning begins
Step 4 White-Label Support Automated client reporting