Vulnerability scanning that combines our highly accredited experts with leading security technology
In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, the number of vulnerabilities discovered daily is overwhelming, leaving organisations exposed to cyber-attacks. Staying ahead of these vulnerabilities is a necessity.
With LRQA’s expertise, your organisation gains the confidence of knowing that vulnerabilities are managed effectively, compliance requirements are met, and risks are mitigated.
Our Managed Vulnerability Scanning approach
Our Managed Vulnerability Scanning service deploys leading vulnerability scanning and management technology, with options for on-premise or cloud-based deployment, to aid you in identifying, investigating, prioritising, mitigating and responding to vulnerabilities within your environment and attack surface.
Proactive threat management
Backed by our offensive security and threat intelligence teams, we ensure that you stay ahead of emerging threats and vulnerabilities.
Compliance support
We are a PCI SSC-approved scanning vendor, helping you meet industry-specific compliance requirements with ease.
Scanning of infrastructure with technology
We use Gartner-recognised technology to provide comprehensive scanning for your infrastructure, web applications, and cloud environments.
Expert remediation
Our certified team works with you to prioritise and remediate vulnerabilities efficiently, ensuring your environment remains secure.
Benefits of Managed Vulnerability Scanning
There are many benefits to having our Managed Vulnerability Scanning service in place, including:
- Improved security and control
- Fast identification of vulnerabilities before external threats can take advantage of them
- Continuous threat visibility and reporting across your environment
- Elimination of blind spots across your environment
- Contributing to compliance, governance, and data protection requirements
- Operational efficiencies with repeatable, automated, efficient scanning
- Vulnerability prioritisation so you understand what to remediate first
- Enhancement of your existing patch management program
Why work with us?
Specialist expertise
Our cyber security experts hold multiple vendor certifications and accreditations as well as highly respected industry accreditations from CREST, the PCI SSC, ISC2, BCI, Chartered Institute of IT, and NCSC CHECK.
Industry leadership
We lead and shape industry on advisory boards and councils including the PCI SSC Global Executive Assessor Roundtable and CREST councils in the Americas, Asia, EMEA and the UK. We are certified by a range of governing bodies including the payment card industry and are approved as a Qualified Security Assessor.
Everywhere you are
Operating in over 55 countries, with more than 250 dedicated cyber security specialists and over 300 highly qualified information security auditors across the world, we can provide a local service with a globally consistent dedication to excellence.
Award winners
We have been recognised for the breadth and depth of our services – including the TEISS Award for Best Penetration Testing Service in 2024, Enterprise Threat Detection and Cloud Security awards at the Security Excellence Awards 2024 and the Stratus Award for Best Managed Cloud Security Service.
FAQs
What is vulnerability scanning?
Vulnerability scanning is the examination of IT systems and networks to identify security weaknesses that can leave an organisation exposed and vulnerable to a cyber threat. It 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 your vulnerabilities within your environment could give an attacker the opportunity they need to gain access to your systems.
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 regularly and repeatedly to generate a report based on risk exposure. It 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 automated and involves human interaction with a targeted scope. Penetration testing is normally performed infrequently, a few times a year, to a set schedule. Both vulnerability scanning and penetration testing are critical to ensure a comprehensive view of threats and vulnerabilities your organisation could be facing.
The world leader in CREST accreditations
We are proud to be the only organisation in the world with a full suite of accreditations from The Council of Registered Ethical Security Testers (CREST).
Our team of consultants have achieved the highest accreditations for Penetration Testing, Red Teaming, Incident Response services and Threat Intelligence. In addition, we were also the first organisation to be CREST accredited for our Security Operation Centre services.
Providing Security Testing to a leading UK financial investment company
This client had previously experienced a high number of vulnerabilities, from which LRQA 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.
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