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Vulnerability Management Services
Vulnerability Management Services: Essential for Your Business and Your Peace of Mind
Your business is built on technology; don’t let it be your downfall. If you need to comply with regulations or are looking to safeguard your growing business, regularly validating the strength of your system and network security can help you avoid costly mistakes, including:
What is Vulnerability Management?
Vulnerability management is like a personal trainer for your IT environment and components — purpose-built scanning tools identify weaknesses in your applications, servers, switches, workstations and more, and tailored reports provide critical insights on appropriate corrective actions and level of urgency. The end result: Your business is stronger and more secure.
Meet Compliance Standards
Essendis has experience helping clients earn compliance with the following regulations:
HIPAA/HITECH
HITRUST
ISO/IEC 27001
SOC 1 (SSAE 16/SSAE 18)
Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS)
SOC 2 (AT-101)
California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)
Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS)
Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS)
EU-US Privacy Shield
Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA)
Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP)
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA)
NIST CyberSecurity Framework (CSF)
NIST SP 800-53
CMMC 2.0
Swiss-US Privacy Shield
Controlled Scanning & Testing
Identifies and can exploit weaknesses to determine potential impact on your business.
Report with Findings
You receive a detailed report with the results.
Report Analysis
A security advisor can analyze and explain the report and potential impact; then, they’ll help prioritize next steps.
Network & Systems Repair
The Essendis consulting team, in collaboration with Essendis’ advisory team, can fix identified issues.
Re-scanning and Testing
Demonstrates success after fixing identified issues, while also looking for new vulnerabilities that may have developed.
Business & Financial Security
You have peace of mind, knowing that your business is secure and compliant with regulations.
Your One-Stop Shop for Network Security Services & Engineering
From testing and scanning to implementation, Essendis cybersecurity and technology professionals will keep your business lock-step with evolving technology and protected from harmful attacks.
Using sophisticated security scanning and testing tools, our security advisory team not only interprets scanning results, but helps you prioritize and understand what those results mean for your business; then, our engineers fix identified issues.
À La Carte Security Scanning
Services are available individually or in combination, and can be conducted once or on a recurring schedule.
Configuration Scanning
During configuration scanning, whole networks, servers and switches are assessed to provide assurance that they are set up correctly to reduce your risk of a security breach. Regular scanning manages configuration drift, i.e., the changing of security settings over time.
Vulnerability Scanning
Vulnerability scanning crawls your networks to find weaknesses that may result in an attack.
Penetration Testing
Penetration testing automatically attempts to exploit network vulnerabilities to demonstrate the impact of a potential security breach.
Web Application Scanning
Web Application Scanning, often referred to as Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST), systematically executes each potential action a user may take within a web application to expose weaknesses in the user interface.
Source Code Scanning
Source Code Scanning, often referred to as Static Application Security Testing (SAST), scans source code to identify insecure development practices and malicious development, including backdoors or external transmissions.
How Our Vulnerability Management Program Works
Vulnerability management works best as a continuous cycle, not a once-a-year event. We start by discovering and scanning the assets you actually run — servers, workstations, network gear, cloud workloads and web applications — so your inventory reflects reality before anyone starts fixing things.
Findings are then prioritized by risk rather than by volume. Instead of handing you a spreadsheet of raw CVSS counts, our advisors weigh exploitability and business impact, so your team knows which handful of issues genuinely threaten uptime, revenue or sensitive data.
From there you get remediation guidance your engineers can act on, followed by verification scanning that confirms the fix held. Reporting is built for the people who ask the hard questions — your executives, your insurers and your auditors — with the documentation and evidence trails they expect to see.
Because scanning is one piece of broader security advisory and management services, it pairs naturally with penetration testing services when you need proof that a weakness is truly exploitable, and with managed cybersecurity services when you would rather have the whole cycle run for you. Defense contractors preparing for CMMC can pair recurring scanning with a CMMC readiness assessment to connect technical findings to the specific control requirements they need to meet.
See how unmanaged vulnerabilities become breaches:
Protect and Grow Your Business
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