Vulnerability Assessment
Systematic scanning to identify and prioritise known weaknesses.
What this assessment covers.
Understanding your exposure across infrastructure, applications, and cloud assets is the foundation of any security program. DERISK’s Vulnerability Assessment service performs systematic scanning to identify known security weaknesses and misconfigurations across your entire estate.
The assessment provides a prioritised view of your exposure, enabling teams to address the most urgent risks first. All findings feed directly into the DERISK PTaaS platform for tracking, remediation, and ongoing validation through re-scans that confirm fixes and surface newly emerging vulnerabilities.
How we test.
A structured, expert-led methodology from initial reconnaissance through to real-time reporting and remediation guidance.
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Asset Discovery & Enumeration
We identify and catalogue every asset in scope — servers, applications, cloud resources, and network devices — to ensure nothing is missed during scanning.
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Automated Vulnerability Scanning
We run comprehensive vulnerability scans across all discovered assets to identify known weaknesses, missing patches, and common misconfigurations.
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Service & Configuration Enumeration
We enumerate running services, open ports, and configuration details to understand the exposure of each asset and identify insecure defaults.
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Result Triage & Prioritisation
We filter out false positives and rank genuine vulnerabilities by risk and business impact so your team knows exactly what to fix first.
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Findings published to the DERISK PTaaS portal with risk ratings
All triaged findings flow into the PTaaS portal with CVSS scores and risk ratings, giving you a centralised view of your entire exposure.
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Remediation tracking & re-scan validation
As your team fixes findings, we re-scan to confirm remediation and surface any newly emerging vulnerabilities, keeping your posture up to date.
Why teams choose us.
Expert-led, manually validated, and delivered through the DERISK PTaaS platform for continuous visibility and rapid remediation.
Outstanding Features
- ✓Broad coverage across network infrastructure, web applications, and cloud environments
- ✓Prioritised, risk-based findings delivered through the DERISK PTaaS platform for end-to-end tracking
- ✓Ongoing validation through re-scans
- ✓Seamless integration with remediation workflows
Why Choose Our Service?
- ▸Comprehensive visibility: Identify known weaknesses and misconfigurations across your entire estate
- ▸Risk-based prioritisation: Focus remediation effort on the vulnerabilities that matter most
- ▸Seamless tracking: All findings flow into the DERISK PTaaS platform for collaborative remediation
- ▸Ongoing validation: Re-scans confirm fixes and surface newly emerging vulnerabilities over time
Frameworks & standards.
Testing is aligned with industry-recognised frameworks and standards to ensure comprehensive, repeatable coverage.
What you receive.
Everything you need to understand, prioritise, and remediate findings — delivered through the platform with ongoing validation.
Vulnerability Assessment questions.
What is the difference between a vulnerability assessment and a penetration test?
A vulnerability assessment identifies and prioritises known weaknesses at breadth across your estate. A penetration test proves exploitability in depth by chaining those weaknesses the way an attacker would. Most organisations need both: assessment for coverage, penetration testing for proof.
How are findings prioritised?
By real risk, not raw CVSS: severity is combined with exploitability, asset criticality and business context so remediation effort goes where it reduces the most exposure.
How often should we run one?
Continuously, rather than quarterly. Your environment changes weekly, and an assessment that is three months old describes an estate that no longer exists.
How are findings delivered?
Every engagement runs through the DERISK PTaaS platform, so findings appear live rather than in a PDF weeks later. You get real-time results, collaborative remediation, on-demand retesting, remediation tracking and native Jira and Slack integration.
Often scoped together.
Attack Surface Pentest
Discover every exposed asset before attackers do.
DAST
Continuous automated scanning of your live web applications.
Configuration Review
Identify misconfigurations and harden your systems against attack.
Network Pentest
Simulate real-world attacks across your external, internal, AD, and wireless networks.
Ready to secure your assets with Vulnerability Assessment?
Get in touch with DERISK to schedule an assessment or learn more about how our expert-led testing can strengthen your security posture.
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