Cybersecurity
Vulnerability and exposure management
Finding vulnerabilities is the easy part. The hard parts are knowing which ones matter, getting engineering teams to fix them, and proving they are fixed. This practice covers all three.
Why most programs stall
A scanner can produce thousands of findings in an afternoon. A security team can read a few dozen a week. Teams that treat the scanner score as the priority end up patching things that do not matter while a reachable, exploited weakness sits in a ticket queue.
We prioritize using several inputs: severity (CVSS), whether the vulnerability is known to be exploited (the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog), the estimated likelihood of exploitation (FIRST EPSS), how exposed the asset is, and how much the business depends on it. EPSS is a model of exploitation likelihood across the internet. It is not a risk score for your company, and we do not present it as one.
Services
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Vulnerability assessment
Broad, authenticated scanning of networks, servers, endpoints and applications, with validation so the report lists real findings.
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Enterprise vulnerability management
Design and run a vulnerability management program: ownership, prioritization rules, ticket routing, exceptions and measurement.
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External attack surface management
Discover and monitor the domains, services, cloud assets and exposed credentials that make up what the internet can see of your organization.
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Security configuration assessments
Compare operating systems, databases, network devices and cloud services with hardening baselines such as the CIS Benchmarks.
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Continuous threat exposure management
Move from periodic scans and tests to a repeating cycle of scoping, discovery, prioritization, validation and mobilization.
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Remediation and validation
Help engineers fix what was found, then retest to confirm each finding is closed. Fixed, partially fixed or still open.
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Vulnerability intelligence lookup
Look up a CVE and see its CVSS severity, whether CISA lists it as exploited and its EPSS exploitation estimate, side by side.
The exposure management cycle
- Scope What is in the program
- Discover Assets and exposures
- Prioritize By real risk
- Validate Can it be exploited?
- Mobilize Hand work to engineers
- Monitor Recurring and retested
Questions people ask
Which scanner should we buy?
We work with Tenable, Qualys, Rapid7 and open-source tools such as Nmap. The best scanner is the one that has credentials to your assets and a team that triages its output. We can review what you already own before you buy anything.
Is a passed scan the same as being secure?
No. A clean scan means the scanner found no known issues in the assets it could reach. It says nothing about logic flaws, unknown assets or chained weaknesses.
Related
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Offensive security
Penetration testing for web, API, network, cloud and mobile, plus red teaming, purple teaming and social engineering assessments.
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Security operations
Threat hunting, detection engineering, SIEM consulting, SOC engineering, automation and threat intelligence.
Need to understand your security exposure?
Speak with a security expert
Talk through your environment and goals. We reply to scope the work before anything is tested.
Speak with a security expertPlan an assessment
Answer a few questions and get a structured preliminary scope you can send us.
Use the plannerUnder attack right now?
Call the US office and tell us what you are seeing. Do not wait for a form reply.
Incident response