Vulnerability Scanning
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Our vulnerability scanning managed service enables you to both proactively identify and fix weaknesses in your network and digital assets.
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What is Vulnerability Scanning?
Traditional vulnerability scanning is an automated technical discovery process, that empowers organisations to identify vulnerabilities in their digital estate which could be used by cyber threat actors to access or move across organisational systems.
At CyPro, our UK-based SOC (Security Operations Centre) features a Vulnerability Assessment team that combines automation with their expertise to identify and prioritise relevant vulnerabilities. Most importantly, they help manage and coordinate the remediation process, keeping your business secure in a rapidly-evolving cyber threat landscape.
Challenges Addressed by Vulnerability Scanning
Time To Remediate
Verizon’s 2024 Data Breach Incident Report found the average time to patch is 49 days – a window of opportunity for attackers to exploit weaknesses and breach your systems.
Regulatory Compliance
It is an explicit requirement of many regulations and standards (e.g. Cyber Essentials) to patch all critical and high severity vulnerabilities within 14 days of a patch being released.
Performance Degradation
Unpatched vulnerabilities can cause performance issues (such as lagging) and down time in affected systems, which can in turn impact on your day-to-day business operations.
Reputational Damage
Public disclosure of vulnerabilities can cause customers to question your commitment to cyber security and can reduce trust within your client base.
Technical Debt
There are valid reasons not to patch a vulnerability, e.g. system downtime. Long-term this hesitation leads to the accumulation of ‘technical debt’, amassing out-of-support operating systems that become harder and harder to fix.
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Benefits of Vulnerability Scanning
Our Vulnerability Scanning managed service not only identifies vulnerabilities but also helps you proactively remediate them.
Fast Patching Cycles
With automated vulnerability scanning, our team quickly identify vulnerabilities in your estate and immediately work with your team to start remediation to ensure that these are fixed effectively and without undue delay.
More Cost-Effective
Employing a full-time vulnerability manager can be expensive, particularly for small and medium-sized businesses. Our scanning service offers a more cost-effective alternative, without the overheads of hiring, training and retaining staff.
Compliance Readiness
With an outsourced vulnerability scanning team it is more straightforward for your business to meet its compliance requirements and cyber certifications, e.g. Cyber Essentials Plus. Furthermore, as regulations change so does our service securing your ongoing compliance.
Scalable Protection
Our vulnerability scanning service is designed to grow alongside your business. As your company expands and changes its infrastructure, we will update the scope of scanning, ensuring that your critical assets remain protected without any disruption.
Advanced Tools
Our vulnerability scanning service uses state-of-the-art vulnerability scanning tools with the capability to identify vulnerabilities across your infrastructure and prioritise detections in line with their severity score and contextualised with relevant threat intelligence.
Customer Trust
By implementing vulnerability scanning, you are able to demonstrate to clients and partners that you are committed to taking cyber security seriously. Public facing assets can be patched rapidly after updates are released reducing the risk of public disclosure and negative press interest.
Peace Of Mind
Knowing that potential security vulnerabilities are being identified and remediated across your estate allows you to focus on core business activities. You can rest assured that any potential vulnerabilities will be swiftly dealt with, allowing you to focus on innovation and growth.
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Case Study: UK AdTech Company
Client Challenge
A rapidly growing UK AdTech company was seeking to attain Cyber Essentials Plus accreditation in order to demonstrate cyber security commitment to their client base.
This required them to demonstrate that they had an effective process in place to identify and remediate high and critical vulnerabilities within 14 days of patch release.
The incumbent team needed expert support to effectively manage vulnerability remediation in a prioritised fashion.
Our Approach
CyPro deployed its UK-based vulnerability scanning team. Key components of the approach included:
- Vulnerability Scanning: Conducted vulnerability scanning across user endpoint devices, on-premise network devices and cloud infrastructure.
- Patch Automation: Worked with the client technology team to implement automated patching across the estate where possible in order to minimise demand on operational teams.
- Patch Management: Developed and implemented a Patch Management process for systems that did not support automated patching to ensure that they were remediated in line with requirements.
- Threat Intelligence Support: Implemented threat intelligence monitoring to identify vulnerabilities that posed a significant risk to the organisation – where required we were then able to expedite patching to address the risk in a timely fashion.
- Continuous Improvement: Established a feedback loop for lessons learned, allowing the team to improve patching processes iteratively over time.
Value Delivered
Shorter Risk Windows
Prompt detection and remediation significantly reduces the window of opportunity available for threat actor exploitation.
Less Human Error
Increased patch automation reduced the dependence on users to take manual action on system updates, which in turn reduced human errors.
Improved Resilience
Dramatically reduced the overall security risk, giving the board and investors confidence in the company’s operational resilience.
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Who Needs Vulnerability Scanning?
Vulnerability Scanning is no longer exclusive to large enterprises. As business eco-systems become more complex, identifying and remediating vulnerabilities is critical to ensuring that your business can protect its critical data and assets and continue to operate normally. Below, we highlight the types of businesses that would benefit the most from this service and those for whom it may be less critical.
- Small To Medium-Sized Businesses (SMBs): SMBs often face the same cyber threats as bigger organisations, but have less resources to quickly identify and remediate vulnerabilities that could be exploited. Threat actors commonly use vulnerabilities as a means of conducting their attacks so quickly finding and fixing these reduces the risk to the business.
- Fast Growing Companies: Companies undergoing rapid growth or scaling through mergers and acquisitions require security measures that can expand with them. Vulnerability Scanning ensures that their security scales as their operational environment and digital infrastructure grows, ensuring that they remain protected.
- Companies Targeted By Cyber Criminals: There are some industry sectors, such as finance, healthcare and telecommunications that have proven an attractive target for cyber criminals, largely due to the sensitive and valuable data they hold. Cyber criminals frequently leverage unpatched vulnerabilities to gain access to systems in order to undertake their attacks.
Who Doesn’t Need Vulnerability Scanning?
- Large Enterprises With Established Security Operations: Enterprises that have already invested in robust, in-house security operations and have dedicated teams handling vulnerability management may not require external vulnerability scanning, e.g., a global corporation with a mature IT security department .
- Companies With Minimal Digital Infrastructure: Very small businesses with limited online presence and digital resources, such as a local service provider (e.g., a small plumbing business), may only need basic cybersecurity measures rather than a full-scale 24×7 monitoring solution.
- Businesses Utilising High Volumes Of Software-as-a-Service: Companies that heavily rely on third party software, in which the vendor is responsible for addressing vulnerabilities may not need to procure an additional vulnerability management solutions.
Our Approach
We follow a methodical and client-centred approach, designed to seamlessly integrate with your existing business operations and scale with you as you grow.
Scoping & Discovery
In order to onboard your organisation onto the vulnerability scanning service, we being with an in-depth consultation. This allows us to understand your technical environment and compliance requirements in order to determine what scope and frequency of scanning is appropriate for your needs.
Scanning Configuration
Our team configures our specialist scanning tools to regularly scan your in-scope estate for vulnerabilities. These will be automatically scored according to NIST’s Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) and assigned a criticality score.
Threat Contextualisation
We understand that giving a vulnerability a severity score does not fully quantify the potential risk to your organisation, so we use our knowledge of your organisation and the wider threat landscape to determine the vulnerabilities that have the greatest potential to cause you harm.
Prioritised Remediation
Vulnerability scanning doesn’t end at the detection of vulnerabilities. Our expert team will work with your internal or outsourced technology teams to address and remediate vulnerabilities in a risk-focussed, prioritised way, rapidly reducing the likelihood of vulnerability exploitation.
Proactive Monitoring
Our team monitors and understands the wider threat landscape, in particular how attackers leverage vulnerabilities within their attacks . For example, if a vulnerability is being widely used to target organisations like yours, we will prioritise its remediation on your estate to reduce risk.
Continuous Improvement
We are committed to improving the service we deliver over time. We regularly review and update the service based on client feedback and in-line with technology developments to ensure a high quality of delivery.
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Your Team
Rob McBride
Rob leads our Cyber-Security-as-a-Service offering at CyPro and is a highly experienced CISO. Starting his career with a successful tenure at Deloitte, Rob has since built a distinguished career in cyber security, notably advising multinational corporations on their cyber resilience and leading security initiatives for financial institutions.
At CyPro, Rob leverages his extensive experience as a CISO across multiple industries including finance, telecommunication, travel, manufacturing, and energy. He is passionate about empowering small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) with cutting-edge cyber security solutions to safeguard their operations and drive sustainable growth.
Rob’s expertise and strategic vision are instrumental in delivering tailored, comprehensive security services to our diverse client base.
Additional Consultants
Jordan is an experienced and highly skilled senior SOC analyst who is certified as a GIAC incident handler (GCIH). He specialises in ensuring the efficient onboarding of clients to our SOC service, focusing on deploying detection rules tailored to each client’s specific threat landscape.
Jordan excels in identifying and responding to sophisticated cyber threats, leveraging his deep knowledge of threat detection tools and techniques to provide proactive protection.
Previously serving as a SOC Manager for the UK Home Office, Jordan brings extensive experience in managing large-scale security operations for critical government infrastructure. He is responsible for overseeing 24×7 monitoring, incident response, and the continuous improvement of detection strategies within our 24×7 SOC.
John is a highly skilled Security Operations Manager and a leader within our UK-based Security Operations Centre.
With a strong technical background, John excels at engineering SIEM tools and developing detailed incident response playbooks.
His ability to communicate complex security risks effectively to diverse audiences sets him apart.
John has extensive experience across multiple sectors, including a notable tenure as a Senior Security Analyst for the UK Government.
His expertise and leadership ensure robust security operations and proactive threat management for our clients.
Originating from Deloitte, Ellie brings a wealth of experience and expertise to her role as a Cyber Security Manager.
She specialises in the field of threat intelligence, enabling clients to proactively identify and respond to threats before they escalate into issues.
Technically adept and highly knowledgeable, Ellie excels at developing robust security strategies tailored to each client’s unique needs.
Known for her warm and collaborative approach, Ellie is a natural motivator and people person, making her a trusted partner in implementing and operating effective security controls.
With a degree in Cybersecurity specialising in Digital Forensics, Gianluca brings a robust academic foundation to the table. His educational background is complemented by hands-on experience in a Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) environment, where he has honed his skills in delivering Managed Detection and Response (MDR) and Managed Extended Detection and Response (MXDR) services to a diverse clientele across the globe.
In his role, he has demonstrated exceptional proficiency in blue team operations, excelling at identifying, analysing, and mitigating cyber threats. His expertise extends to fortifying organisational security through proactive defence strategies and comprehensive threat management. He is adept at leveraging advanced security tools and technologies to safeguard critical assets and ensure compliance with industry standards.
His commitment to continuous learning and staying abreast of the latest cybersecurity trends and threats underscores his dedication to protecting organisations from evolving cyber risks.
Comparison: Vulnerability Scanning vs Cyber as a Service
If deciding between Vulnerability Scanning and Cyber Security as a Service (CSaaS), it’s important to understand the distinct benefits each option offers.
Vulnerability Scanning
- Focused vulnerability identification and remediation.
- Vulnerability Identification – supports your organisation in identifying vulnerabilities in the estate and remediating them in a prioritised fashion.
- Advanced Scanning & Remediation – forms one component of the broader Cyber-as-a-Service offering (see more below) but when purchased on its own provides a much more advanced level of vulnerability scanning and remediation support.
- Who Is This Best For? Organisations who know they need vulnerability scanning only. They will already have existing capabilities around the other sub-services which Cyber-as-a-Service (CaaS) provides such as cyber risk management, training and awareness, disaster recovery, strategy and governance, etc.
Cyber Security as a Service (CSaaS)
- Team of experienced cyber security professionals, led by a dedicated vCISO and including a Cyber Security Manager and Security Operations Manager.
- Highly Scalable - the service level can grow in line with yours without significant jumps in costs.
- Includes 24×7 Security Monitoring – monitoring of suspicious events, incident response, disaster recovery, phishing campaigns, software testing, vulnerability scans, etc. This is important in order to identify, contain and limit the impact of a cyber attack and meet your 72hr reporting obligation to the ICO (UK data protection regulator).
- Who Is This Best For? Organisations with limited internal capacity/resources that still seek to mature a broad set of security controls, reduce operational security risk and achieve security certification such as Cyber Essentials, SOC 2 or ISO 27001.
Frequently Asked Questions
- What is a vulnerability scanning service?
This is a service that works with your organisation to promptly identify, prioritise and remediate security vulnerabilities across your infrastructure.
- What types of vulnerabilities are detected?
We will typically detect a wide-range of security vulnerabilities, although this will vary depending on the types of technologies in scope. Results include:
- Missing security patches
- Weak encryption protocols
- Insecure configuration
- Known software vulnerabilities
- How often should I scan my estate?
That depends on the criticality of the systems being scanned, your compliance requirements and the resources available for remediation activity. As part of the onboarding process we will work will you to define an appropriate cadence for your environment.
- Are the scans disruptive?
Most scans are designed to minimise impact to systems and are generally considered non-intrusive, however some scan types have the potential for some service degradation. Where this is a possibility we will work with you to schedule scans in off-peak periods.
- Do I need to install agents on my estate?
That will depend on the objective of the scanning. To conduct internal scans we may need to deploy an agent, however some scans can be conducted completely remotely.
- Can the scanning service be used for compliance audits?
Yes, vulnerability scans are often a key component of compliance audits and we will work with you during the onboarding process to ensure that the scope of the scan meets your compliance requirements.
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