A vulnerability assessment is a process of identifying vulnerabilities in network components, including the operating system, web applications, systems, servers, web server, etc.

Querensics vulnerability testing helps to identify the category and criticality of vulnerability in your organization. The ultimate goal of vulnerability scanning includes scanning, examing, evaluating, and reporting vulnerabilities in the network.

Advantages of Vulnerability Assessment

By conducting vulnerability assessments querensics will help to:

  • Identify known security issues before potential attackers find the vulnerability and exploit it.
  • Provide the opportunity to address the issues and avoid serious damage to the organization’s assets
  • Assists in updating or creating a detailed structure of the organization’s network.
  • Identifies rogue machines on the network and avoids unnecessary risks to the organization.
  • Helps create an inventory of network resources which are useful when tracking systems
  • Assists  in generating a blueprint of their overall security posture.
  • Provide additional assurance to IT managers on the state of the security system

Types of Vulnerability Assessment

Internal Vulnerability Assessment

Internal Vulnerability Assessment:  Examines the security of the Internal network

An internal vulnerability assessment recognizes the vulnerabilities in the internal network. It evaluates the network for the presence of internal vulnerabilities. The assessment will include:

Host and service discovery: Discovering all accessible systems and services running. This includes live hosts detection, service enumeration, and application fingerprinting.

Vulnerability Identification and verification:  Vulnerability scans are performed on discovered host and the services in order to identify any vulnerability present

Internal Vulnerability Assessment

External Vulnerability Assessment:  Examines the security of the servers facing the internet.

An external vulnerability assessment evaluates the security profile of an organization from the perimeter of the network.

Interested in our Vulnerability Assessment Services?

The vulnerability assessment services of Querensics are compliant with the current international security standards that are sure to help organizations assess the security and robustness of their systems and products.