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Vulnerability Assessments

Breadth-first coverage of your attack surface, continuously maintained and prioritized by exploitability rather than by raw severity score.

A vulnerability assessment gives you breadth: continuous, prioritized visibility of what is exposed across your estate, validated by people rather than handed over as scanner output.

Coverage Is Not the Same as Noise

Most organizations do not lack vulnerability data. They lack a way to act on it. A scanner pointed at a reasonably sized estate will return thousands of findings, a substantial proportion of which are false positives, duplicates or technically true but practically unreachable. Handed over raw, that output does not reduce risk. It produces a backlog nobody clears and a quiet decision to stop looking.

Our assessments are built around the triage rather than the scan. AI-augmented discovery gives coverage that manual enumeration cannot reach, including the assets nobody remembers standing up, and then an operator establishes what is genuinely reachable, removes what is not, and prioritizes by blast radius rather than by severity score. A medium-severity finding on a domain controller matters more than a critical on an isolated kiosk, and a report that cannot tell the difference is not much use.

The external surface deserves particular attention because it changes without anyone deciding it should. A new subdomain, a staging environment left reachable, an expired certificate, a credential pasted into a public repository: each appears between assessments, which is why continuous discovery beats periodic snapshots.

  • Continuous external attack surface discovery and monitoring
  • Authenticated internal, cloud and pipeline assessment
  • Operator triage, so findings are exploitable rather than merely present
  • Prioritization by reachability and blast radius, grouped for efficient remediation

Assessments pair naturally with periodic penetration testing against the areas that matter most, and with maturity level assessments where you need to benchmark the program itself. Get in touch to discuss coverage.

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Vulnerability Assessments

Continuous visibility across your attack surface.

Coverage

What Our Vulnerability Assessments Cover

Wide coverage across every surface, with findings triaged by people so your team spends its time on what an attacker could actually use.

01

External Vulnerability Assessment

Continuous discovery and assessment of everything you expose to the internet, including the assets nobody remembers standing up.

Our methodology

AI-augmented attack surface discovery maps hosts, services, certificates, subdomains, cloud storage and credentials leaked through public repositories and breach corpora. Findings are triaged by an operator, so you receive exploitable exposure rather than an inventory.

  • Attack surface discovery
  • Shadow IT
  • Certificate monitoring
  • Credential exposure
02

Internal Vulnerability Assessment

Authenticated assessment across your internal estate, identifying the weaknesses that turn a single compromised workstation into a much larger problem.

Our methodology

Authenticated scanning across servers, workstations and network devices, combined with configuration and identity review. Results are prioritized by reachability and blast radius rather than by CVSS alone, because a medium on a domain controller matters more than a critical on a kiosk.

  • Authenticated scanning
  • Blast radius
  • Configuration review
  • Patch validation
03

Cloud Configuration Review

Assessment of AWS, Azure and Google Cloud configuration, where for many organizations the control plane now carries more risk than the network ever did.

Our methodology

Review of identity and access management, privilege escalation paths, cross-account and cross-tenant trust, storage exposure, secrets handling, logging coverage and workload identities, benchmarked against CIS foundations and provider guidance.

  • IAM review
  • CIS benchmarks
  • Storage exposure
  • Logging coverage
04

Source Code Review

Manual and assisted review of application source, finding the classes of flaw that testing from the outside is unlikely to reach.

Our methodology

Review focused on authentication and authorization logic, injection sinks, cryptographic use, secrets in code and history, and dependency risk with a software bill of materials. Findings reference the specific lines, so remediation is unambiguous.

  • Authorization logic
  • Secrets in history
  • Dependency risk
  • SBOM
05

CI/CD Pipeline Assessment

Assessment of the build and deployment pipeline, which holds enormous privilege and is defended far less often than the systems it deploys to.

Our methodology

Review of runner and workflow permissions, secrets handling, artefact signing and provenance, branch protection and third-party action risk. We test whether a contributor, a dependency or a compromised token could reach production.

  • Pipeline privilege
  • Secrets handling
  • Artefact provenance
  • Supply chain
06

Physical Security Assessment

Assessment of the physical controls protecting your premises, equipment and network ports, because a network is only as segmented as its building access.

Our methodology

Review and authorized testing of access control, tailgating resistance, reception and visitor process, unattended network ports, and the security of server rooms and communications cabinets across your sites.

  • Access control
  • Tailgating
  • Network ports
  • Visitor process
AI-augmented methodology

Machine Speed, Operator Judgment

Automation covers the volume so our operators can spend their time where human judgment wins. Every result is verified by an expert before it reaches you.

Our work aligns to recognized standards including the OWASP Testing Guide and ASVS, PTES, NIST SP 800-115, OSSTMM and MITRE ATT&CK.

How the platform works
01

Autonomous reconnaissance

Continuous mapping of your external attack surface, surfacing new exposures the moment they appear.

02

AI-assisted exploit chaining

Individual weaknesses connected into realistic, high-impact attack paths a real adversary would take.

03

Continuous validation

Findings reflect your live environment, not a stale snapshot, so you act on what is true today.

04

AI-accelerated reporting

Evidence turned into clear, prioritized guidance in a fraction of the usual time, every result human-verified.

How an engagement runs

A tested process, not a black box

Every StrikeCyber engagement follows the same disciplined path, so you always know where you are and what comes next.

  1. 01

    Scope & kick-off

    We agree targets, rules of engagement, timing and success criteria. No surprises, fixed scope, fixed price.

  2. 02

    Offensive testing

    AI-augmented reconnaissance and manual exploitation across your networks, applications, cloud and people.

  3. 03

    Real-time critical alerts

    Anything critical or actively exploitable is escalated the moment we find it, not weeks later in a report.

  4. 04

    Report & debrief

    A prioritized report with reproducible steps and a live debrief for your technical and executive stakeholders.

  5. 05

    Retest & validate

    Once you remediate, we retest to prove the fix holds. Typically one business day per component.

What you receive

Deliverables Built to Be Acted On

Reports engineers can execute against and boards can understand, backed by a live portal from kick-off to retest.

01

Prioritized findings

Every issue ranked by real-world risk and exploitability, not raw scanner severity, so your team fixes what matters first.

02

Reproducible evidence

Step-by-step proof and artefacts for each finding, so engineers can confirm, reproduce and remediate without guesswork.

03

Risk ratings & impact

Clear likelihood and business-impact ratings, mapped to CVE identifiers and the controls behind each weakness.

04

Remediation guidance

Practical, environment-specific fixes and hardening advice, written for your stack and your tooling.

05

Board-ready summary

An executive briefing that translates technical risk into business language for leadership and directors.

06

Live client portal

Track findings, remediation status and retests in real time, with critical issues escalated the moment we find them.

FAQ

Vulnerability Assessments FAQs

How is a vulnerability assessment different from a penetration test?

A vulnerability assessment goes wide: it covers your whole surface and tells you what is exposed and likely weak. A penetration test goes deep: it proves which of those weaknesses are exploitable and chains them into a demonstrated path to impact. Most organizations need both, running assessments continuously and penetration tests periodically against the areas that matter most.

Is this just a scanner with a report on top?

No, and that distinction is the whole point. Scanners produce volume, and volume without triage is how security teams end up ignoring findings entirely. Our assessments use AI-augmented discovery for coverage and then an operator triages what comes back, removing false positives and prioritizing by what is actually reachable and exploitable in your environment.

How often should we run one?

Continuously for external attack surface, because it changes without anyone deciding it should: a new subdomain, a forgotten staging environment, an expired certificate, a leaked credential. Internal and cloud assessments are commonly quarterly, and source code and pipeline reviews are best tied to significant releases or architecture changes.

Which compliance requirements does this support?

Vulnerability management is an explicit expectation in SOC 2, PCI DSS, HIPAA, NIST CSF, NIST SP 800-171 and CMMC, NYDFS Part 500 and FedRAMP, among others. Most of those regimes want evidence of both identification and remediation over time, which is why the tracking matters as much as the scanning.

Will this create a huge backlog we cannot action?

It should not, and if it does we have not done our job. Findings are prioritized by exploitability and blast radius rather than by raw severity score, and grouped so that a single fix addressing forty instances is presented as one piece of work rather than forty tickets. The goal is a queue your team can actually clear.

Can you assess environments we do not fully know about?

That is frequently the most valuable part. Attack surface discovery routinely surfaces assets that no longer appear in anyone's inventory: infrastructure from an acquisition, a marketing campaign site, a proof of concept that was never decommissioned. Those are also disproportionately likely to be the way in.

Ready to take the offensive?

StrikeCyber specializes in penetration testing and red teaming engagements that deliver actionable findings. Connect with us for a free consultation.

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