Industry

IT Support for Private Equity Firms

Intragreat Consulting supports private equity firms with security controls that protect deal information, fund operations, and closing processes — and documentation that stands up to LP and lender scrutiny.

Common Challenges

Wire fraud risk concentrated around closings and capital events
Confidentiality across data rooms, advisors, and counterparties
Access sprawl as deal teams, consultants, and portfolio contacts accumulate
Operational due diligence questionnaires from LPs and insurers
No dedicated internal IT or security owner

Practical Outcomes

MFA and Conditional Access enforced across the firm
Verified payment and wire confirmation practices supported by email security
Documented access reviews and offboarding
Faster, cleaner ODD questionnaire responses

How We Help

The risk concentrates around closings — so should the controls

Private equity firms face the same baseline risks as any professional firm, but with one important difference: the periods around closings, capital calls, and distributions concentrate enormous transaction value into short windows, with many external parties — counsel, lenders, advisors, counterparties — exchanging documents and payment instructions under deadline pressure. Attackers understand this rhythm and time their fraud attempts accordingly.

We help firms build controls that hold up under exactly that pressure: email authentication that makes the firm's domain difficult to spoof, mailbox monitoring that catches the forwarding rules attackers plant after a compromise, and documented wire verification procedures that the whole deal team actually follows — because the procedure that exists only in one controller's head does not survive a busy closing week.

Documentation that satisfies LPs, lenders, and insurers

Operational due diligence has become a standing feature of fundraising, and cyber insurance applications now read like security audits. Both ask for the same evidence: enforced MFA, managed and encrypted devices, periodic access reviews, vendor oversight, and an incident response plan. Firms that maintain these as living practices answer in hours; firms that do not face weeks of remediation at the worst possible time.

Our engagements establish the controls first, then the records: who has access to what and when it was last reviewed, how departing employees and consultants are offboarded, which vendors hold firm data and under what terms. The result is a security posture the firm can describe truthfully and verify on request — which is precisely what allocators are testing for.

FAQ

Common questions.

How do you reduce wire fraud risk during a closing?

Through layered controls: SPF, DKIM, and DMARC at enforcement so your domain is hard to spoof; anti-phishing and impersonation protection in Microsoft 365; alerts on new mailbox forwarding rules; and a documented callback verification procedure for any new or changed payment instruction. The technical controls reduce the attempts that get through; the verification procedure catches the ones that do.

Can you work alongside our fund administrator and existing vendors?

Yes. Most engagements involve coordinating with fund administrators, data room providers, and outside counsel rather than replacing them. Our focus is the layer those vendors cannot control: your firm's identities, mailboxes, and devices, and the access your vendors hold into your environment.

What does an operational due diligence readiness review involve?

We assess your current controls against the questions institutional LPs and insurers actually ask — identity, devices, email, access governance, vendor risk, and incident response — then deliver a prioritized remediation plan. After remediation, your questionnaire answers reflect controls that genuinely exist, with documentation to support them.

Free Review

Get a practical IT and security review.

We will review your Microsoft 365, email security, devices, and user access, then explain what should be fixed first.