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Vulnerability Scanning

Continuously monitor your attack surfaces with automated and manual vulnerability scanning across your infrastructure, applications, and cloud environments.

Why Continuous Vulnerability Scanning?

New vulnerabilities are discovered daily. A point-in-time assessment provides a snapshot, but your security posture changes constantly — new systems are deployed, configurations drift, and software is updated. Continuous vulnerability scanning ensures you maintain visibility into your security posture and can respond quickly when new threats emerge.

For organisations pursuing Cyber Resilience Act compliance, ongoing vulnerability management is a core requirement. Vulnerability scanning provides the foundation for meeting these obligations.

Our Scanning Services

External Attack Surface Scanning

We continuously monitor your internet-facing assets including web applications, APIs, mail servers, DNS infrastructure, and exposed services. Scans identify:

  • Outdated software versions with known CVEs
  • Misconfigured services and open ports
  • Weak SSL/TLS configurations
  • Exposed credentials and sensitive information
  • DNS and email security issues (SPF, DMARC, DKIM)
  • Shadow IT and unknown assets

Web Application Scanning

Automated scanning for OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities including:

  • SQL injection and command injection
  • Cross-site scripting (XSS)
  • Broken authentication and session management
  • Security misconfigurations
  • Sensitive data exposure
  • XML external entity (XXE) attacks
  • Server-side request forgery (SSRF)

Internal Network Scanning

Identify vulnerabilities within your internal network including workstations, servers, IoT devices, and network appliances. We scan for:

  • Unpatched operating systems and applications
  • Default credentials
  • Network segmentation weaknesses
  • Legacy protocols and services
  • Privilege escalation opportunities

Cloud Infrastructure Scanning

Continuous security posture monitoring for AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud environments:

  • Misconfigured storage buckets and databases
  • Overly permissive IAM policies
  • Unencrypted resources
  • Compliance violations (CIS benchmarks, NIST, PCI-DSS)
  • Container and Kubernetes vulnerabilities

IoT Device Scanning

Specialised scanning for connected devices and embedded systems:

  • Firmware vulnerabilities
  • Insecure communication protocols
  • Hard-coded credentials
  • Outdated libraries and dependencies
  • Physical attack surface issues

Vulnerability Management Workflow

  1. Discovery — Automated scans run on a scheduled basis (daily, weekly, or continuous)
  2. Analysis — Our team triages findings, validates true positives, and assigns risk scores
  3. Prioritisation — Vulnerabilities are prioritised based on exploitability, asset criticality, and business context
  4. Reporting — You receive actionable reports with remediation guidance
  5. Verification — Once patched, we re-scan to confirm successful remediation
  6. Trending — Track your security posture over time with metrics and dashboards

Deliverables

  • Initial comprehensive vulnerability assessment report
  • Continuous monitoring dashboard with real-time vulnerability status
  • Weekly or monthly executive summary reports
  • Critical vulnerability alerts (immediate notification)
  • Remediation verification and validation testing
  • Trend analysis and security posture metrics
  • Compliance-ready evidence for regulatory audits

Scanning vs. Penetration Testing

Vulnerability scanning and penetration testing are complementary services:

  • Vulnerability Scanning — Automated, continuous, broad coverage. Identifies known vulnerabilities at scale. Best for ongoing monitoring.
  • Penetration Testing — Manual, periodic, deep analysis. Validates exploitability and chains vulnerabilities together. Best for point-in-time assurance.

We recommend combining both: use scanning for continuous visibility, and conduct penetration tests quarterly or after significant changes.

Integration & Automation

Our vulnerability scanning services integrate with your existing tools:

  • Slack, Microsoft Teams, or email for critical alerts
  • Jira, ServiceNow, or other ticketing systems for remediation tracking
  • CI/CD pipelines for shift-left security testing
  • SIEM platforms for centralised security event correlation
"You can't fix what you don't know about. Continuous vulnerability scanning provides the visibility you need to stay ahead of attackers."
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Frequently Asked Questions

It depends on your risk profile and regulatory requirements. We typically recommend:

  • External scans — Weekly or continuous
  • Internal scans — Weekly or monthly
  • Web applications — After every release (CI/CD integration) plus weekly
  • Cloud infrastructure — Continuous (real-time monitoring)

For high-risk environments or regulated industries, continuous scanning is the gold standard.

Our scans are designed to be non-invasive and safe for production environments. We use rate limiting, schedule scans during maintenance windows if needed, and avoid exploit-based tests that could cause disruption. If you have particularly sensitive systems, we can adjust scan intensity or conduct scans in staging environments first.

Unauthenticated scans simulate an external attacker with no credentials. They identify vulnerabilities visible from the outside.

Authenticated scans use provided credentials to scan from an insider perspective. These catch more vulnerabilities including missing patches, misconfigurations, and privilege issues that aren't visible externally.

We recommend both: unauthenticated scans for your external attack surface, and authenticated scans for internal assets.

Yes. Every vulnerability report includes clear remediation guidance with step-by-step instructions. If your team needs additional support, we offer remediation consulting, verification testing after patches are applied, and ongoing advisory services. We can also help you build internal processes for vulnerability management.

Regular vulnerability scanning is required or strongly recommended by many frameworks including PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, NIST Cybersecurity Framework, CIS Controls, and the Cyber Resilience Act. Our reports provide audit-ready evidence of your ongoing security monitoring, remediation efforts, and security posture improvements over time.