Joey Victorino
Capability
Due Diligence & Reviews
Lead
Joey Victorino — personally led
Basis
Written scope · scoped after intake

Independent evidence, before the decision is priced.

Capital or accountability depends on technical claims nobody independent has tested — an acquisition, an incident the board is asked to close, a consequential recommendation. Everyone else at the table has a stake in the answer. I don’t.

A  Transaction technical due diligence

Technical and cybersecurity diligence for private equity, strategic acquirers, investment committees, and boards. The engagement tests technical reality against the investment thesis. Before capital moves, I answer:

01Has the environment already been compromised?
02What security exposure transfers at close, and what does it cost to retire?
03Does the architecture support management’s growth assumptions?
04What technical debt becomes the buyer’s problem on day one?
05What does the company own, versus license or depend on?
06Are the cost assumptions credible, or is the model carrying infrastructure the business does not need?
07Where is key-person dependency dangerous?
08What must be fixed before close, and what can wait 30, 90, or 180 days?
09What would have to be true for the thesis to hold, and which assumptions are doing the most work?

When AI is material to the valuation — a proprietary platform, a transformation plan, a cost model built on GPUs — the claim gets the same treatment. I build and secure this class of system in my own operating work; claims are tested against how these systems behave, not against the demo.

Deliverables: an investment-committee memo with the independent conclusion, the technical findings behind it, and the management questions to ask before you wire. Typically $25,000–$45,000+ depending on scope; expedited timelines available. For sponsors, a standing program covers the portfolio: baseline, periodic reviews, a diligence allocation for live deals, partnership-level reporting.

I performed acquisition-related security testing and technical examination at NCC Group before doing this work independently. Employers are not clients; confidential matters stay confidential.

B  Incident closure review

Before the board accepts closure, before regulators or customers are told, and before the insurance narrative hardens, an independent review tests whether the evidence supports contained, eradicated, closed. I examine the investigation record, the containment and eradication evidence, the scoping decisions, and what was not looked at. The written conclusion states whether closure holds, holds only with named conditions, or does not hold. Typically $20,000–$30,000+ depending on scope.

C  Executive decision review

One consequential decision — a committed contract, an architecture, a vendor claim — tested independently and answered in a signed memorandum: what the evidence supports, what it does not, and what to do next. $12,500 fixed, normally 3 to 5 business days. The same discipline covers a single technical claim before it is priced into a deal.

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