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Managed Vulnerability Scanning

Understanding your assets, risks, and threats

Being able to identify your vulnerabilities before they are exploited is crucial in today’s connected world. Every year, thousands of vulnerabilities are discovered and organizations scramble to stay on top of them.

LRQA Nettitude is an award-winning cybersecurity organization with unparalleled capability in delivering vulnerability management services. With our global Security Operations Centres (SOCs) we provide 24/7 services that secure our clients and detect and respond to sophisticated cyber threats, providing assurance that your organization is protected.

What is managed vulnerability scanning?

Vulnerability scanning is the examination of IT systems and networks to identify security weaknesses that can leave an organization exposed and vulnerable to a cyber-threat.

Vulnerability scanning is completed by a highly specialised software tool that interrogates IT systems to collect data which is then compared to a database of known flaws or vulnerabilities.

Vulnerability scanning is a fundamental component of any security testing program for identifying existing or new vulnerabilities and misconfigurations across your systems.

Failing to understand and remediate the vulnerabilities you have within your environment could present an attacker the opportunity they need to gain access to your systems.

Managed Vulnerability Scanning Lifecycle
Vulnerability Scanning vs Penetration Testing

Vulnerability scanning vs Penetration testing

What are the differences between vulnerability scanning and penetration testing?

Vulnerability scanning identifies vulnerabilities within an environment and is much wider in scope than penetration testing. It is used to estimate how susceptible the environment is to different vulnerabilities. Vulnerability scanning uses automated tools that scan an environment on a regular and repeatable basis to generate a report based upon risk exposure.

Vulnerability scanning does not try to exploit the vulnerabilities and is normally non-intrusive.

Penetration testing goes beyond vulnerability scanning. It attempts to identify and then actively exploit unknown weaknesses or vulnerabilities within an environment and is much more rigorous than vulnerability scanning, penetration testing is not normally an automated process and involves human interaction to a targeted scope. Penetration testing is normally performed infrequently, a few times a year, to a set schedule.

Both vulnerability scanning and pen testing are critical to ensure a comprehensive view of threats and vulnerabilities your organization could be facing.

Benefits of managed vulnerability scanning

There are many benefits of having vulnerability management capability in place to help protect your environment and provide a proactive stance against threats to your organization:

  • Improved security and control
  • Fast identification of vulnerabilities before external threats can take advantage of them
  • Continuous threat visibility and reporting across your environment – all of the time
  • Eliminate blind spots across your environment
  • Contributes to meeting compliance, governance, and data protection requirements
  • Operational efficiencies – scanning is repeatable, automated, and efficient meaning you get repeatable results
  • Vulnerability prioritization – know what to remediate first
  • Patch management – vulnerability scanning can enhance and evolve your existing patch management program

Managed vulnerability scanning service features

LRQA Nettitude’s Managed Vulnerability Scanning service provides the most highly accredited expertise combined with Gartner Magic Quadrant leading security technology to deliver industry-leading protection for your organization.

Our approach is proactive, and threat led; informed by our offensive and threat intelligence teams to shape our defensive stance and protect against the latest industry threats, providing in-depth unrivalled detection and alerting capability where it is needed most.

Managed Vulnerability Scanning Service Features
SOC Services - Case Study - Leading UK Investment Company

Case Study – Providing SOC services to a leading financial investment company

This client had previously experienced a high number of vulnerabilities, from which LRQA Nettitude was able to help. The services implemented provided the client with a proactive and threat-led approach; informed by our offensive and threat intelligence teams to protect against the latest industry threats.

“From scoping through to conclusion, our experience with LRQA Nettitude has been excellent…”
– Client

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