Vulnerability Assessment
Comprehensive vulnerability assessments that identify and prioritise security weaknesses. Our proactive approach ensures your systems and networks are resilient against evolving cyber threats.
Vulnerability assessment services
A crucial component of a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy, vulnerability scanning looks for potential vulnerabilities across your networks and provides your IT team with a full list of findings so they can mitigate these risks.
Whether it’s an internal or external network vulnerability assessment, regular scanning can prevent the loss of sensitive data and protect your organisation from the devastating impact of a security breach.
Our vulnerability assessment services will provide your technical team with a list of all live connected systems active on your network. This information can be correlated against your company’s IT asset registry to identify unmanaged and potentially rogue devices within the environment.
Ongoing vulnerability management
We also offer comprehensive vulnerability management services that go beyond one-off scans to continuously test for system vulnerabilities and security flaws.
Our market-leading security operations centre (SOC) provides comprehensive vulnerability management services that encompass: internal vulnerability scanning, external vulnerability monitoring and agent-based scanning of remote and cloud devices.
Additionally, our vulnerability auditing is well-positioned to assess the effectiveness of your current patch management solutions and the patching of your Microsoft, Mac, and Linux operating systems, infrastructure, security, and other company applications.
Why are vulnerability assessments important?
Vulnerability assessments are a systematic way to uncover vulnerabilities and mitigate the impact of potential cyber threats.
As a direct outcome, your team will have access to a list of recommendations prioritised by the risk they pose to your organisation, empowering you to strengthen your network against attacks and reduce your exposure to threats.
The key benefits of vulnerability assessments include:
- Provides access to a single point of contact for your vulnerability management programme, strengthening your local IT team with specialist knowledge.
- Establishes best practice for routine cyber hygiene across your organisation; an important part of a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy.
- Ensures you stay ahead of the threat through a comprehensive set of proactive measures.
- Reduces the risk of known security vulnerabilities that could lead to successful cyberattacks and data breaches.
- Maintains compliance with cyber regulations, including GDPR, PCI, NIST and Cyber Essentials.
How are vulnerability assessments performed?
Our vulnerability assessment process is based on a structured, tiered approach that uses enterprise vulnerability scanning software.
We combine expert human analysis, grounded in decades of real-world experience, with enterprise-grade vulnerability assessment tools and software from multiple leading vendors for our assessment engagements.
Our external security scanners are cloud-hosted and can perform a thorough assessment of your external and client-facing systems by our team remotely.
For internal device assessments, our specialists conduct an on-site consultation or install software agents or hardware sensors that connect to our cloud vulnerability scanners. This allows our security analysts to quickly assess multinational organisations with global offices, reducing travel time and costs.
Reduce costs for your organisation by partnering with CloudTech24 to leverage our analyst resources for ad hoc and ongoing vulnerability management services, equipped with our licensed vulnerability assessment tooling.
Depth analysis and vulnerability scans
If you need a more in-depth analysis of your current cybersecurity posture to measure and understand the actual risk to your company, our vulnerability assessment services can be coupled with our thorough penetration testing services to provide full organisation coverage on an ongoing basis.
Vulnerability scans for SMEs
Our vulnerability scans are designed for small to medium-sized businesses and include a detailed vulnerability assessment report that presents security findings, risk identification, data validation, and remediation details in a simplified format.
This service includes a rescan to verify that any fixed vulnerabilities are resolved. Our expert security professionals will provide consultation and advice for addressing any identified vulnerabilities.
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Frequently asked questions about vulnerability assessments
Find the answers to common questions about our vulnerability assessment services. If you would prefer to speak to someone, give us a call and speak to one of our team members at our head office in Surrey.
Do you need a login to perform a vulnerability scan?
We provide both unauthenticated and authenticated vulnerability assessments. With authenticated assessments, our clients provide us with login credentials for their host and server systems, enabling us to log in to the target systems as an administrative user and perform a more comprehensive analysis.
What is a vulnerability assessment?
A vulnerability assessment is a security assessment performed by our expert team with enterprise vulnerability scanning tools that identifies all potential vulnerabilities on a network or computer system, but does not manually validate or exploit these findings. This is the difference between a vulnerability assessment and penetration testing.
What is included in a vulnerability assessment?
Our vulnerability assessments include scanning, manual checks, consultation and concluding vulnerability assessment report. All assessments include formal presentation and consultation with an experienced cybersecurity professional to assist with the output of the tooling.
What’s the difference between a vulnerability scan and a vulnerability assessment?
A vulnerability scan is used to identify vulnerabilities on a computer system, a vulnerability assessment includes scoping, reporting, Impact and actionable insight/consultation.
What is the difference between a vulnerability assessment and penetration testing?
Unlike a vulnerability scan that leverages automated scanning, a penetration test requires manual testing by skilled security professionals and is used to stimulate a real-life cyber-attack, exploiting vulnerabilities found and measuring the impact of exploitation.
How do you perform a vulnerability assessment?
Our vulnerability assessments are aligned to a structured process and frameworks Speak to a member of our team of security professionals for a vulnerability assessment tailored to your business.
Should vulnerability assessments be done on a regular basis?
It is advisable to have a regular check on your exposure to cyber threats. CloudTech24 also offer on-going vulnerability assessment, better known as VMS.
How much does a vulnerability assessment cost?
Costs of vulnerability assessments vary depending on the number of network hosts (IPs) that require testing and whether these are internal or external IT Systems.
Why are vulnerability assessments important?
Vulnerability assessments are important as they allow your business to identify and remediate potential flaws in your network security that can be leveraged to launch an attack against your business.
How often should a vulnerability assessment be performed?
We recommend all organisations perform vulnerability assessments at least once a year or more frequently depending on your organisation’s appetite to risk, if your business changes its infrastructure or develops its own applications then a thorough review of applications is required to identify security flaws – assessment should be performed at least every time there is a major change to your network infrastructure. CloudTech24 also provide ongoing vulnerability management.
Does GDPR mandate vulnerability assessment?
GDPR does not strictly mandate the need for vulnerability assessments; however, they are vital in maintaining security hygiene, reducing attacks and identifying any unwanted data exposure which could breach GDPR regulations. Vulnerability assessment is required to ensure compliance by some certification bodies such as PCI DSS and ISO 27001.
What is a vulnerability assessment checklist?
A vulnerability assessment checklist is part of the CloudTech24 documented process and frameworks that details each step required in order to perform a comprehensive vulnerability assessment and to ensure each assessment is performed to the high level of service that our clients expect.
How does CloudTech24 ensure that the vulnerability assessment process does not disrupt their clients’ cloud services?
CloudTech24 takes precautions to minimize any disruption to their clients’ cloud services during the vulnerability assessment process. They carefully schedule assessments during off-peak hours or low-traffic periods. Moreover, they utilize non-intrusive scanning techniques and collaborate closely with their clients to plan and coordinate the assessment, ensuring that critical systems and services remain operational.
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