Vulnerability Assessment
Understand your security posture — comprehensively and quickly.
Broad-coverage scan + manual validation of your attack surface. Faster and cheaper than a full pentest, but with manually verified findings instead of false-positive noise. Ideal as a baseline before an audit or for ongoing visibility.
ROE signed before any work · 30 minutes response
The problem
Scanners are cheap. Signal is not.
Raw output buries the signal
An unfiltered scan of any real estate returns hundreds or thousands of findings, and a large share are false positives. Someone still has to separate the real ones — and that someone is usually your busiest engineer.
CVSS alone misprioritizes the work
A critical on an isolated staging box can outrank a medium on your payment path. Severity scores without business-impact context send your team to fix the wrong things first.
Audit-driven timing leaves drift
A scan run once a year for the auditor says nothing about the other eleven months. Estates change weekly; posture visibility has to recur or it's a snapshot of history.
False positives erode trust in the process
After engineering chases the second phantom finding, reports stop being read. Unvalidated results don't just waste hours — they train your team to ignore the report that one day holds a real critical.
Scope of work
What's included
Everything below is delivered by senior engineers — no scanner-only reports, no junior hand-offs.
- Automated scanning across external and internal surfaces
- Manual validation to eliminate false positives
- Prioritized findings by exploitability and business impact
- Quarterly or monthly recurring option available
- Compatible with audit requirements (PCI-DSS, ISO 27001)
Methodology
How we run it
- 01Scope definition and authorization
- 02Automated scanning across surfaces
- 03Manual triage and false-positive removal
- 04Risk-prioritized reporting
Comparison
VA vs scanner-only services.
| Feature | AnySec | Generic firm | DIY |
|---|---|---|---|
| False-positive rate | <5% after manual triage | 30–70% from raw scanners | Whatever your scanner gives you |
| Business-impact context | Per-finding business rating | CVSS only | Tool default |
“Our auditor accepted AnySec's VA as-is. The previous Nessus-only deliverable would have been bounced for being raw scanner output.”
— Compliance Lead · EU regulated fintech
Deliverables
What you receive
- Prioritized vulnerability list with CVSS and business-impact rating
- Recommended remediation actions
- Audit-ready findings summary
Our commitments
Skin in the game.
- Every finding manually validated — no scanner-only entries
- Audit-friendly format accepted by major frameworks
- Same-week delivery available
FAQ
Questions we get asked
How is this different from a pentest?+
VA is breadth-first and faster. Pentest is depth-first and proves exploitability with chains. Most clients run VA quarterly and pentest annually.
How often should we run a vulnerability assessment?+
Quarterly is the baseline for most operators; monthly if you ship changes fast or sit in a regulated sector (casinos, fintech, crypto). Recurring VA plus one annual penetration test is the pattern we recommend for high-risk platforms.
Does a vulnerability assessment satisfy PCI-DSS or ISO 27001 requirements?+
It covers the recurring vulnerability-scanning and manual-validation component those frameworks expect, and the report is formatted to be accepted by auditors. The separate annual penetration-testing requirement is met by our Penetration Testing service.
Will scanning disrupt our production environment?+
No. Scanning is non-intrusive by default and scheduled with you. Any check that could affect availability is only run with explicit authorization, and never against production without your sign-off.
What does the deliverable actually contain?+
A risk-prioritized findings list with CVSS plus a business-impact rating, concrete remediation guidance per finding, and an audit-ready summary — every entry manually validated, so there is no scanner false-positive noise for your team to wade through.
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Vulnerability Assessment pairs with the rest of the AnySec catalog — offensive testing, 24/7 defensive operations, incident response, and resilient infrastructure, all delivered by the same EU-registered team.
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