ILLUSTRATIVE FINDING STRUCTURE / DILIGENCE READOUT
Shadow API & uninventoried cloud surface outside the data room
- Observation
- Certificate transparency and reverse-DMARC enumeration surface legacy acquisition subdomains and a staging GraphQL gateway absent from the seller’s asset inventory.
- Evidence
- Passive DNS chain, TLS certificate lineage and non-intrusive schema verification artifacts attached to the engagement ledger.
- Deal materiality
- Expands the inherited attack surface and requires pre-completion decommissioning or specific indemnity coverage before connecting corporate identity.
- Remediation
- Consolidate the apex domains, decommission the gateway before close and monitor certificate transparency after close.