A vulnerability assessment is an analysis of vulnerabilities, with the aim of identifying the IT system's weaknesses before hackers can get hold of them.
Hackers are constantly search the internet for vulnerabilities, therefore if you don't want your company to become a victim, you need to be the first to identify these openings. To manage your vulnerabilities effectively, you must take a proactive strategy, and doing a vulnerability assessment is an essential first step.
There is difference between believing you are vulnerable to a cyberattack and understanding precisely how you are vulnerable, since you cannot avoid one if you don't know how you are weak. This gap is what the vulnerability assessment seeks to close.
The best method for assessing a network's or online application's security needs and requirements is a vulnerability assessment. It offers a thorough analysis of both possible and current vulnerabilities, including software bugs, flawed system setups, inadequately strong defenses, and more. The amount of risk that each asset is exposed to is estimated using this approach. All threats that are discovered are disclosed along with their gravity and suggestions for a fix.
Global IT Solutions employs an approach that combines the usage of specialist tools with the OWASP Testing Guide v4 and OSSTMM v3 standards. The methods employed and the controls assessed vary and are greatly influenced by the technology of the asset under review.
We perform a vulnerability assessment by working through the following steps:
We help you decide what you want to scan, which isn’t always as simple as it sounds. We provide visibility into your IT infrastructure and connected devices including Mobile Devices, IoT Devices, Cloud-Based Infrastructure through automated discovery tools.
Once we know what you've got, we help you to prioritise vulnerability assessment scans on Internet-facing servers, Mobile Devices, Customer-facing applications, Databases containing sensitive information, and get them covered, in the same order.
We use Vulnerability scanners to identify vulnerable devices and software in your infrastructure by identifying Open ports & running services, Software versions, Configuration settings etc. The scanner also sends specific probes to identify certain vulnerabilities by sending safe exploits to identify common vulnerabilities such as 'Command Injection' or 'Cross-site Scripting (XSS)', or the use of default usernames and passwords, to name a few.
After the vulnerability scans are complete, we provide you with an assessment report and label all potential vulnerabilities based upon their severity. We also assist you in planning for remediation, focussing on the most severe vulnerabilities first on public-facing systems. We also make sure that the rest are not ignored as hackers chain several mild vulnerabilities to create exploits to target assets storing sensitive data.
A vulnerability scan offers a glimpse of the vulnerabilities that are currently present in the IT infrastructure of your company. New deployments, configuration adjustments, recently found vulnerabilities, and other things, can soon make the infrastructure exposed once more. Because of this, vulnerability management must be an ongoing effort rather than a one-time task.
Regular vulnerability assessments are critical to a strong cyber security posture and considering the number of vulnerabilities that exist and the complexity of an average company’s digital infrastructure, even one unpatched vulnerability places your company at risk. The difference between a failed attack or an expensive and humiliating data breach or ransomware infection can be made by identifying these vulnerabilities before an attacker does.