MANAGED VULNERABILITY SCANNING SERVICE
Our managed vulnerability scanning services helps you to identify new vulnerabilities and misconfigurations across your networks and applications. This is a fundamental component to the security manual testing program ensuring continuous checks to help remediate security risks and achieve a strong security posture.
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What is vulnerability scanning?
The purpose of vulnerability scanning is to identify security vulnerabilities affecting an organisation. It provides input to the vulnerability assessment process where vulnerabilities are assessed and categorised in terms of actual risk to the organisation.
Vulnerability scanning is a vital component of a cyber security testing program offering constant identification of new vulnerabilities in IT systems. The issues discovered are presented in easy to understand formats with actionable guidance. This input is essential to quantify and categorise risks before approaching risk remediation.
A fully managed vulnerability scanning solution offers constant checking and our consultants expertise offers a handy approach to tactical risk remediation rather than getting consumed by a lengthy report and large volumes of scan data.
What is Managed Vulnerability Scanning Service process?
The main objective of managed vulnerability regularly scanning is to provide constant insight into vulnerabilities and misconfigurations on an ongoing monitoring basis.
Vulnerability assessment is a component of vulnerability management that is a time-limited exercise aimed at finding vulnerabilities in your environment. Vulnerability scan and management is an ongoing process that is more comprehensive and aimed at continuous identification and security vulnerabilities.
The vulnerability scanning tools consist of thousands of checks and signatures used to probe open ports, services, collect information and discover comprehensive coverage of vulnerabilities that threat actors could use. The presence of false positives is a downside to this process, whoever, taken care of by adding human edge to the process where all issues are manually checked against the targets in scope. Issues range from simple information leakage to broken access controls or a lack of important patches.
Vulnerability scanners are broadly divided into two main categories, i.e. Network vulnerability scanner and Web applications vulnerability scanner. This vulnerability scanner identifies issues related to services in an internal network (inside a perimeter) or over the internet (external) across operating systems and services. Scanners also exist for a number of specialist subcategories such as cloud infrastructure because misconfiguration of cloud platforms is the number one threat to cloud security.
An internal vulnerability could be exposure of database to the entire company, an open share, etc. A web application vulnerability scanner detect vulnerabilities across the application components such as checking against OWASP Top 10 application and API security issues.
The process of vulnerability scans is the one that takes in all your known software vulnerabilities and feeds them into the risk remediation process, making it an effective way to assess risks for a business. When you make the mistake of buying vulnerability scans disguised as assessments, they’re not really a vulnerability scan in your business context – they’re only running automated tools, providing scan results with no expertise or insight on how these could affect us if they were exploited by cybercriminals.
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Vulnerabilities identified by our scanning service
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Operating system, known vulnerabilities and web server security weaknesses
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Insecure user passwords, policy controls and configuration issues
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Denial of service vulnerabilities
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Authentication, segmentation and sensitive data leakages
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OWASP/Web application security weaknesses
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Access control and network security across internal networks or cloud based assets
Why Cyphere Managed Vulnerability Scanning?
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Prioritise and assess the newly identified assets
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Maximising in-house team efficiency to focus on addressing than discovering risks
- PCI DSS, ISO 27001, GDPR Compliance support
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Gain continuous visibility of your assets across the estate
- Constant support for risk remediation from security experts
- Good cyber hygiene with reduced risk exposure
The benefits of managed vulnerability scanning
- Reduced risk of attack
- Faster identification and remediation of vulnerabilities
- Improved compliance posture
- Greater visibility into the security posture
- Increased efficiency in vulnerability management processes.
New vulnerabilities are continually emerging, this can leave organisations exposed to emerging issues in the window between tests. When it comes to protecting your organization from cyberattacks, managed vulnerability scanning is a critical piece of the puzzle. By identifying and remediating vulnerabilities in a timely manner, you can reduce the risk of an attack and improve your organization’s compliance posture.
A fully managed vulnerability scanning service to reduce your attack surface
Network & Infrastructure Penetration Testing
- Protect your business against evolving network & infrastructure threats
- Check services, patching, passwords, configurations & hardening issues
- Internal, external, network segregation & device reviews
- PCI DSS, ISO 27001, GDPR Compliance support
- Helps shape IT strategy & investments
Web Application & API Pen Testing
- Assess real-world threats to web applications
- Validate secure design best practices against OWASP Top 10
- Timely check to avoid common pitfalls during development
- Ensure strong authentication, authorisation, encryption mechanisms
- Find loopholes to avoid data leakage or theft
Mobile Penetration Testing
- Assess real-world mobile app security vulnerabilities
- Validate secure design & configuration best practices
- Increased flexibility and productivity of users through secure mobile offerings
- Ensure strong mobile app authentication, authorisation, encryption mechanisms
- Find mobile app or device loopholes to avoid data leakage or theft
- PCI DSS, ISO 27001, Compliance Support
Cloud Penetration Testing
- Better visibility on cloud process aligning
- Secure validation of internal and third party integrations
- Support ever changing regulatory/compliance requirements
- Ensure strong authentication, authorisation, encryption mechanisms
- Demonstrate data security commitment
- Less is more – reduced costs, servers and staff
Digital Attack Surface Analysis
- Attack surface analysis to identify high risk areas and blind spots
- Improve your security team’s efficiency
- Streamline your IT spends
- Lower Risks and Likelihood of Data Breaches
