Vulnerability Assessment

Transforming weaknesses into strengths — a defensible remediation order, not a 400-page scanner dump.

A cybersecurity vulnerability assessment is an essential service that CyberTI® offers to help identify and evaluate vulnerabilities within your organisation's digital infrastructure.

By integrating with our advanced CyberTI® platform, we provide a thorough evaluation of your cybersecurity posture. Each assessment is followed by detailed reporting and tailored recommendations — and CyberTI® believes in proactive, continuous improvement rather than a once-a-year snapshot.

Terms on this page

EPSS
EPSSExploit Prediction Scoring SystemA data-driven model, scored daily by FIRST, estimating the probability that a published CVE will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.Full glossary →
KEV
KEVKnown Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogueCISA's published record of vulnerabilities confirmed to be under active exploitation. Presence in KEV is evidence, not prediction.Full glossary →
CVSS
CVSSCommon Vulnerability Scoring SystemA severity score describing how bad a vulnerability would be if exploited. Its own specification treats the base score as a ceiling, not a measure of risk in your environment.Full glossary →

Capabilities

What a vulnerability assessment covers

Authenticated and unauthenticated scanning

Both the outside view and what a credentialed user can reach, because they differ significantly.

Analyst triage

False positives removed by a human before the report reaches you.

Platform integration

Findings correlated against your attack surface in the CyberTI® platform for real context.

Trend reporting

Progress tracked across assessment cycles, so improvement is measurable.

Approach

Ongoing vulnerability management support

CyberTI® believes in proactive and continuous improvement in cybersecurity. An assessment is a starting point, not a deliverable to file away.

We stay engaged after the report: retesting remediated findings, tracking your exposure trend across cycles, and adjusting scope as your environment changes.

Prioritised

Findings ordered by what would actually hurt

Tooling produces a list. What makes an assessment worth commissioning is the judgement applied to that list afterwards.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

What is a vulnerability assessment?

A systematic process of identifying, classifying and prioritising security weaknesses across your digital infrastructure, so remediation effort goes where it reduces the most risk.

How is a vulnerability assessment different from a penetration test?

A vulnerability assessment is broad and identifies weaknesses across your estate. A penetration test is narrow and deep — a tester actively exploits weaknesses to demonstrate real-world impact.

Most organisations need both: the assessment for coverage, the test for proof.

How often should assessments be run?

Continuously, not annually. ASD's Essential Eight expects vulnerability scanning at least daily on internet-facing services and at least fortnightly elsewhere.

An annual assessment is the deep-dive layer on top of that cadence, not a substitute for it.

Has vulnerability management actually become more urgent?

Yes — and the shape of the problem has changed.

Exploiting a known software vulnerability has overtaken stolen credentials as the most common way attackers gain their initial foothold. That is a reversal of a pattern that held for most of the last decade, and it moves patching from a hygiene task to a frontline control.

Put plainly: the single most common way in is now a vulnerability someone already knew about and had not patched. That is also the most fixable of all the ways in — which is the point.

Are automated or manual assessments more effective?

Neither alone. Automated tooling gives coverage and consistency at scale; manual analysis removes false positives and catches issues no scanner is written to find. We use both.

How long does an assessment take?

Typically days to weeks, depending on the size of the environment and the depth of analysis required.

Does this apply to cloud-based systems?

Yes. Cloud environments are assessed for misconfiguration, excessive permissions and exposed services alongside traditional infrastructure.

What preparation do we need to do?

Very little. We need scope agreement, access details where authenticated scanning is in scope, and a point of contact. We handle the rest.

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