Vulnerability Assessment Service

Cipher Storm vulnerability assessment service provides in-depth examination of internal and external security controls placed within your organization’s IT infrastructure. Our unique testing approach will identify all threats posing serious exposure of your network and data assets and allow us to introduce improved security policies and procedures. With an increasing diversity in network technology and services, regular assessments are required to identify any potential threats and vulnerabilities that might lead to new attack surface and let the attacker to access your network. Our Vulnerability Assessment service provides a low-cost technical security infrastructure evaluation. This service will not only evaluate the key technical infrastructure risks, but also assess with the requirements towards industry compliance and standards and deliver the comprehensive report with prioritized remediation strategies.

Our internal infrastructure assessment criteria provides the assurance to the internal systems by analyzing user or group permissions to specific business resource, process restrictions, enforced policies and generic network traffic to identify any known vulnerabilities and misconfigurations. Similarly, assessing the infrastructure from off-site will demonstrate a complete image of integrity of your business assets and thus ensure that the perimeter defenses are proactive. In both criteria each host on the network will be rigorously tested against multiple attack vectors to assess their reactive measures. During the vulnerability scanning phase, it is mostly viable that the external hosts offering outbound services would be more susceptible to direct attacks which may give rise to penetrate inside the corporate network infrastructure. Cipher Storm consultant advices on all present security vulnerabilities found during the scanning and discovery phase and those which are the results of deviation from best practices that may reveal the client’s information assets.

Cipher Storm unique testing process and selected tools and techniques enable the organizations to detect network devices, operating systems, application services and identify vulnerabilities in an automated fashion. Our integrated vulnerability management process helps the client to resolve the most critical vulnerabilities that could impact the business, more efficiently and with cost effective resources. At the end, a detailed report will highlight the necessary countermeasures to be taken to reduce corporate risk and to conform to industry compliance and standards.

Penetration Testing vs. Vulnerability Assessment
Penetration testing is considered different from vulnerability assessment in a way that penetration testing process is more intrusive and aggressive while trying all technical methods (exploits) to break into client’s live production environment. However, vulnerability assessment provides flexibility in identifying and quantifying all set of vulnerabilities in non-invasive manner that pose serious threats to the client network infrastructure.

Vulnerability Management
Cipher Storm research team manages up-to-date database of vulnerabilities via industry known sources to provide authentic and true assessment to its clients. These involve:

Our Vulnerability Assessment Process

Cipher Storm - Vulnerability Assessment Process

• Discover the network components (routers, firewalls, servers, IDS/IPS)
• Classification of assets according to their business importance.
• Assess the applications and network architecture for known vulnerabilities.
• Assign the risk scores for each vulnerability (low, medium, high) and execute mitigation policy accordingly (hardening the systems, apply patches, enforce security policies).
• Identified vulnerabilities will be analyzed and assessed carefully to maintain industry standards and compliance.
• Develop a detailed report with findings, recommendations and remediation procedures to help integrate with client’s risk management system.

Features

• Find the check points leading serious threats to the corporate network or applications from internal or external gateways.
• Test all set of network components, such as, applications, routers, switches, firewalls, IDS/IPS, backup devices, hosts.
• Assess the existing risks and threats exposing your network to malicious adversaries.
• Perform thorough vulnerability analysis to exercise and understand the possible extent of damage.
• Industry leading support to remediate the identified vulnerabilities to protect your business.
• Assess your network from industry standards and compliance perspectives.
• Reduces the cost of business disruption from known incidents come through existing vulnerabilities.
• Improve the security policies and emergency response planning within your organization.
• Detailed documentation on identified vulnerabilities, risk matrix and mitigation policies with definite explanation.

Benefits

• A complete overview of organization’s security posture by assessing the perimeter defenses and internal network infrastructure.
• Ensure the business continuity process with legitimate security procedures in place.
• Reduces the downtime occurred due to application or network vulnerabilities.
• Advice on proactive defensive mechanisms that defend and react against attacks.
• Assessment to be carried out according to industry standards and business objectives.
• Prevent financial loss due to unreliable business systems and protect your market reputation.
• Meet the compliance requirements that require vulnerability assessment.
• Compliant with industry regulations and certifications (ISO 27001, HIPAA, OSSTMM, OWASP).