Vulnerability assessment and management (VA/VM) is a continuous program that discovers, validates, and prioritizes security weaknesses across your networks, hosts, applications, and cloud - then tracks them through to remediation against agreed SLAs. CyberXplore runs authenticated and unauthenticated scanning, but goes further with senior-led manual triage to strip out false positives and rank findings by real exploitability and business impact, not just raw CVSS. The result is a risk-based, audit-ready view of your exposure with recurring assessments and clear ownership of every fix.
NIST SP 800-40CVSSEPSSCISA KEVISO 27001PCI DSS
Why CyberXplore
Senior-only testers (OSCP, CRTP, CREST)
ISO 27001 & ISO 9001 certified
Free retest + attestation letter
Tailored scope and quote in 24 hours
Why it matters
Tens of thousands of new CVEs are published every year - a point-in-time scan is out of date within weeks, leaving exploitable gaps open between assessments.
Raw scanner output is noisy: without expert triage, teams drown in false positives and 'critical' ratings that don't reflect real exploitability in your environment.
Attackers weaponize newly disclosed flaws within days, so unmanaged remediation backlogs and missed patch SLAs directly widen your window of exposure.
Frameworks like ISO 27001, SOC 2, and PCI DSS require a documented, repeatable vulnerability management process with evidence of timely remediation.
Aligned with industry standards: NIST SP 800-40 · CVSS · EPSS · CISA KEV · ISO 27001 · PCI DSS
Our methodology
01
Asset Discovery & Scoping
We build an accurate inventory of in-scope IPs, hosts, web apps, and cloud assets, then define scan windows, credentials, and rules of engagement so nothing critical is missed or accidentally disrupted.
02
Authenticated & Unauthenticated Scanning
We run external (unauthenticated) scans to see what an outside attacker sees, plus authenticated scans with valid credentials to detect missing patches, weak configurations, and exposure that only surface from the inside.
03
Manual Validation & False-Positive Removal
Senior testers manually verify findings, eliminate false positives, and identify issues scanners miss - so your team spends effort on confirmed, exploitable weaknesses rather than noise.
04
Risk-Based Prioritization
We rank each finding using CVSS, exploit availability (EPSS/known-exploited data), asset criticality, and business context - giving you a true 'fix this first' order instead of an undifferentiated list.
05
Remediation Tracking & SLA Management
Every vulnerability is assigned an owner, severity-based SLA, and status. We track progress to closure, support your engineers with fix guidance, and surface overdue items before they become incidents.
06
Recurring Assessment & Verification
On a scheduled cadence - monthly, quarterly, or continuous - we rescan, confirm fixes are effective, and report trends so your exposure shrinks measurably over time.
What we test
External (internet-facing) and internal network vulnerability scanning
Authenticated host and configuration assessment (Windows, Linux, network devices)
Missing patches, outdated software, and end-of-life components
Insecure services, weak protocols, and exposed ports
Security misconfigurations and hardening gaps (CIS benchmarks)
Web application and API surface-level vulnerability scanning
Cloud and virtualization configuration weaknesses (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Default, weak, or shared credentials and exposed secrets
Known-exploited vulnerabilities (KEV) and high-EPSS exposure
Risk-based prioritization mapped to asset criticality and business impact
What you get
Validated vulnerability register with false positives removed
Executive risk summary with trend and exposure metrics over time
Per-finding remediation guidance with severity-based SLA targets
Remediation tracking dashboard or report mapped to owners and status
Recurring assessment schedule with verification rescans of closed items
Audit-ready evidence for ISO 27001, SOC 2, and PCI DSS programs
Sample deliverable
What you'll see in your report
Every engagement ends with a clear, prioritized report: severity-rated findings with CVSS scores, affected assets, and remediation status - plus a free retest. The figures below are illustrative.
Cumulative figures across our team's combined engagement history
Shared under NDA · details anonymized
“We scaled from one assessment a year to continuous testing without adding headcount. Findings land in our backlog with reproduction steps our developers can act on the same day.”
0 criticals at retest
DE
Director of Platform Engineering
Global e-commerce retailer · 1B+ requests / month
Retail / eComm
Certifications held by our testers
OSCP
CRTP
CREST
CEH
eWPTX
ISO 27001
ISO 9001
Frequently asked questions
A vulnerability assessment is breadth-first: it scans broadly to discover, validate, and prioritize known weaknesses across many assets on a recurring basis. A penetration test is depth-first: testers actively exploit and chain a smaller scope to prove real-world impact. Most mature programs use both - continuous VA/VM for ongoing hygiene and periodic pentests for deep assurance.
