Vulnerability Assessment

Stay one step ahead of potential threats by identifying vulnerabilities in your systems.

What's a Vulnerability Assessment and what's its purpose?

The vulnerability assessment service usually includes a detailed evaluation of potential weaknesses and their level of risk for the organization. It is a process that attempts to identify, categorize, and report security holes that exist on websites, applications, networks, devices, and more.

This procedure is typically automated and includes different types of vulnerability scanners. It is used to detect security issues and errors such as SQL injection, XSS, outdated operating systems, security updates not installed, poor access control management in applications, and other common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs).

Process

During a vulnerability analysis, some of the activities that may be carried out include:

- An initial meeting and planning phase
- Identifying which IT systems and components need to be evaluated, such as storage, servers, and network devices (prioritizing them based on their service and internet exposure)
- Evaluating common software vulnerabilities, weaknesses in system configuration, network vulnerabilities, and more.
- Analyzing the results and identifying specific weak points that may be relevant to a particular organization.

A detailed report is prepared with analytical information about the vulnerabilities that were found, including their severity and risk rating, possible mitigations to address these issues, and ways to help the organization improve the security of its system.

Approach and frequency

Vulnerability assessments can be conducted in various ways: via internal assessments, external assessments, and at different frequencies: either on a specific point in time or regularly.

When doing an internal assessment, systems are analyzed from the inside, providing a detailed view of weak points and security practices to improve. In contrast, external assessments seek out vulnerabilities that attackers could exploit from the outside. External assessments provide a report on the security vulnerabilities of systems that the organization has publicly exposed.

Scans can be performed at specific points in time or at regular intervals, such as monthly, quarterly, semi-annually, or annually.

Periodic vulnerability assessments are essential for maintaining effective and up-to-date security in an organization. Point-in-time assessments can detect security issues that were not found during periodic assessments and help prevent external threats.

Each type of assessment has its own advantages and disadvantages and should be selected based on the security objectives and needs of the organization.

Reporting

Unlike other organizations, we do not include the results of automated tools without prior processing (only as an annex).

During the process, the most critical and high vulnerabilities are filtered to work on their recommendations and create the final document in the agreed language.

The resulting report has a format similar to the following:

    Executive Summary
    Scope and Planning
    Findings
    Annex

Note: each vulnerability is analyzed by the cybersecurity specialist.