Vulnerability Assessment

For organizations who have not (or infrequently) conducted internal and external penetration testing, a vulnerability assessment can provide a quick snapshot of your current security posture.

Identify, Validate, Prioritize — Actionable Risk Insights

  • Comprehensive Vulnerability Scan

    Run automated scanners to uncover known vulnerabilities across your environment, including infrastructure, applications, and services.

  • Manual Validation

    Verify scan findings to weed out false positives and ensure reported issues reflect real-world risk. Avoid alert fatigue with clean results.

  • Risk Assignment

    Assign context-aware severity levels to each issue, providing prioritized remediation guidance based on your environment and exposure.

A vulnerability assessment typically includes an automated scan followed by manual validation to remove false positives and prioritize remediation efforts. This hybrid approach ensures that only relevant, actionable vulnerabilities are reported, saving time and minimizing distractions.

While not as deep as a full-scope penetration test, vulnerability assessments are ideal for identifying surface-level issues that pose real-world risks. They offer broad coverage, quick execution, and clear guidance on where to focus remediation efforts.

These assessments can be conducted from both external and internal perspectives, and optionally from authenticated or unauthenticated standpoints. Whether testing your infrastructure, services, or web applications, we tailor each assessment to your environment and goals.

Assessment Benefits

  • Hybrid approach: combines automated scanning with manual validation for accurate results
  • Manual review eliminates false positives and reduces alert fatigue
  • Broad coverage across infrastructure, web apps, and internal/external assets
  • Fast execution with actionable insights ideal for compliance or baseline security

Let's Identify Your Risks

Schedule a quick consultation to learn how a vulnerability assessment can help your team take the next step in maturing your security posture.

Vulnerability Assessment — FAQ

What to expect regarding scope, access, timelines, safety, and deliverables.

How is a vulnerability assessment different from a penetration test?▾
A vulnerability assessment focuses on breadth: discovering, validating, and prioritizing weaknesses across assets with targeted scanning and manual verification to reduce false positives. A penetration test focuses on depth, exploiting select issues to demonstrate real-world impact and chained attack paths.
Do you perform manual validation?▾
Yes, we manually validate and de-duplicate findings to eliminate noise before prioritizing remediation.
Will this disrupt production systems?▾
We tune scans to be safe and schedule them to minimize impact. High-risk checks and intrusive payloads are excluded or performed with explicit approval in maintenance windows.
How long does a typical assessment take?▾
Most environments take 1–2 weeks of scanning and manual validation plus reporting and a live debrief. Larger environments, assessments that require devices in multiple locations, or mixed on-prem/cloud scopes can extend timelines; we size this during scoping.
What access is required?▾
Internal, external (Internet-facing), and web application vulnerability scanning is typically performed from an unauthenticated standpoint. When required, we use authenticated scans (e.g., domain or local credentials) to dig deeper, In these instances, we can use a read-only service account for authenticated scanning network targets and standard user credentials or test accounts to improve coverage of web applications.
What deliverables do we receive?▾
A prioritized report with validated findings, affected assets, evidence, business impact, and clear remediation steps, mapped to severity. You also get an executive summary and a live debrief. A vulnerability assessment report does not show full exploitation, lateral movement, or attack chains. We can provide raw scanner output upon request.
Do you retest after fixes?▾
Yes. Post-remediation validation is always included with all of our services to confirm fixes, close tickets with confidence, and update the report status.