Capabilities
Vulnerability Scanning
Recurring authenticated and external scans across your cloud, network, and application surfaces. Findings triaged and prioritised, not exported and forwarded.
DELIVERED THROUGH
A Cloudsapio vCISO engagement
engagement levels
Advisor · Consultant · Leader
TYPICAL CADENCE
Monthly or quarterly, depending on framework and change rate
tHE PROBLEM
Your auditor wants evidence.
SOC 2 and ISO 27001 both expect regular vulnerability scanning with evidence that findings get triaged and fixed. Most companies buy a scanner, run it, and end up with a few thousand findings nobody has time to read.
The auditor wants to see that findings were assessed and closed, not that a tool ran. Your engineers want to know which three things to fix this sprint, not which four hundred exist. And a raw scanner output cannot tell the difference between a critical flaw on an internet-facing service and the same CVE on a host that has no route to it.
WHAT YOU GET
Deliverables
Authenticated internal and external scans on a recurring schedule, covering cloud, network, and web application surfaces. Findings are triaged, deduplicated, cross-referenced against your architecture, and delivered with a remediation order your team can act on.
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Scope and asset inventory confirmation
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Authenticated and external scans across network, cloud, and web application surfaces
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Triaged findings with CVSS scoring and exploitability context
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Cross-reference against your asset inventory to cut false positives
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Remediation priority with recommended owners
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Trend reporting across scan cycles, showing what closed and what recurred
fit
Who is this for
Companies with SOC 2 or ISO 27001 requirements for regular scanning, and growth-stage teams with no in-house scanning tooling or nobody with time to triage what it produces.
HOW IT WORKS
The engagement step-by-step
01
Discovery call (30 min)
What your framework requires, what you already scan, and what your environment looks like.
02
Scoping
We confirm the asset inventory, the external footprint, and the credentials needed for authenticated scanning. You get a fixed scope and price before anything runs.
03
Baseline scan
The first cycle usually produces the largest finding count. We triage it fully so you start with a real picture rather than a backlog.
04
Triage and report
Findings are deduplicated, scored, checked against your architecture for exploitability, and ordered by what actually matters. Each one gets a recommended owner.
05
Remediation support
We work with your engineers on the fixes that need context, and retest to confirm closure.
06
Ongoing
Subsequent scans run on the agreed cadence with trend reporting, so you can show your auditor the programme is operating rather than that a tool exists.
The questions that come up on every first call.
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How is this different from penetration testing?
Scanning is broad, automated, and recurring. It finds known vulnerabilities across your whole estate. A penetration test is a person attempting to chain weaknesses into a real attack path, scoped to a target and run occasionally. Most frameworks expect scanning continuously and a pentest annually. They answer different questions and neither replaces the other.
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How often do we need to scan?
Depends on your framework and how fast your environment changes. Quarterly is a common floor for audit purposes; monthly suits teams shipping frequently or running significant internet-facing infrastructure. We recommend a cadence on the first call.
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What does authenticating scanning means?
An authenticated scan logs into the system with credentials and sees what is actually installed, rather than inferring from the outside. It finds substantially more and produces far fewer false positives. Most auditors expect it for internal systems.
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Will this disrupt production?
Standard scanning is non-intrusive and we schedule it around your operations. We agree any potentially disruptive checks with you before they run.
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Does this satisfy our SOC 2 or ISO 27001 requirement?
The scanning does, provided the findings get triaged and closed and you can evidence it. That last part is where most programmes fail an audit, and it is why every cycle here ends with packaged evidence rather than a raw export.
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