Vulnerability assessment: continuous discovery, prioritization, and remediation you can prove.
Most businesses cannot say what vulnerabilities exist on their network right now, which is exactly the question a SOC 2 auditor, a cyber insurance underwriter, or an enterprise customer's security questionnaire will ask. Vulnerability assessment is the foundation layer of every security program: continuous identification of known vulnerabilities, prioritized by exploitability and business impact, and tracked through remediation. We deliver one-off assessments and ongoing continuous-monitoring programs, remotely, anywhere in the United States.
- 6Discovery scopes
- ContinuousOr one-off
- CVSSPrioritization
- TrackedTo remediation
Six discovery scopes across your attack surface.
External attack surface
Internet-facing IP space, exposed services, public-facing web applications, DNS misconfiguration, certificate hygiene. Discovers what an attacker can see without credentials, which is also what your cyber insurer's scanning vendor sees before quoting your renewal.
Internal network
Servers, workstations, network devices, printers, IoT. Credentialed scanning for accurate version-and-patch identification. Discovers what an attacker could exploit after a single phishing click gives them an insider position.
Web applications
Authenticated and unauthenticated web application scanning. OWASP Top 10 categories, with business-logic flaws that automated tools cannot catch flagged for manual review rather than silently omitted.
Cloud configuration
Azure, AWS, and Microsoft 365 tenant configuration. Public storage buckets, weak conditional access, exposed administrative interfaces, identity-provider misconfiguration. Cloud findings are where most US mid-market breaches actually start.
Endpoint configuration
Endpoint hardening, missing patches, weak local policies, unauthorized software, USB controls. Assessed at scale through Intune or equivalent endpoint management rather than machine by machine.
Network device configuration
Firewall rule audits, switch and router configuration, wireless controller hardening, and configuration drift from your secure baseline. The devices nobody has reviewed since installation are usually the oldest findings.
Four reasons IT leaders choose GR.
CVSS-prioritized, business-impact-weighted
Vulnerability scanners produce volume. We add prioritization: CVSS severity adjusted for your business context, which assets carry sensitive data, which face the internet, and which support critical operations. The output is actionable, not just exhaustive.
Remediation tracking, not just discovery
Most vulnerability programs find issues and never close them. We track every finding through remediation with status updates, re-scan to verify closure, and burndown reporting. The metric that matters is mean-time-to-remediate, not count-of-vulnerabilities.
Continuous-monitoring option
Annual scans miss vulnerabilities that emerge between cycles. The continuous-monitoring engagement scans monthly, alerts on critical new findings within 24 hours, and produces monthly burndown reports written for leadership, not just engineers.
Evidence your auditor and insurer can use
Reports are written to serve as compliance evidence: control mapping for SOC 2, HIPAA risk analysis, PCI DSS, and NIST 800-171 where relevant, and the recent-assessment documentation cyber insurance applications increasingly require. One engagement, several audiences.
Six triggers for a vulnerability assessment.
Compliance baseline
SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI DSS, and NIST 800-171/CMMC programs all expect periodic vulnerability assessment evidence, with findings tracked to remediation.
Pre-acquisition due diligence
Acquiring a business? Assess its IT environment to understand inherited security debt before close, while it can still change the price.
Post-incident validation
After a near-miss or an incident, scan to verify the exploited gap is closed and to find the adjacent ones.
Pre-launch validation
Before launching a new web application or cloud workload, baseline its security posture while fixes are still cheap.
Cyber insurance underwriting
Underwriters increasingly require recent vulnerability-assessment evidence, and external scan findings show up in your quote whether you knew about them or not.
Continuous-monitoring program
Mature security programs run continuous scanning as the foundation layer under penetration testing and detection.
Three security-discovery activities compared.
| Feature | Vulnerability assessment | Penetration testing | Security audit |
|---|---|---|---|
Method | Automated + curated | Manual + tooling | Documentation + interview |
Output | Prioritized CVE list | Verified attack narratives | Compliance gap report |
Duration | 1-5 days | 1-3 weeks | 2-4 weeks |
Scope breadth | Broad | Defined and deep | Compliance-mapped |
False-positive rate | Moderate | Very low | N/A |
Relative cost | Lower | Mid | Mid |
Best for | Continuous hygiene | Annual baseline, pre-launch | Compliance evidence |
From scoping to remediation tracking, five steps.
- 1
Scope and authorization
2-3 days
Define scope: which IP ranges, which applications, which cloud tenants. Credentials for credentialed scans, timing windows, and a signed authorization letter. Output: a written scope both sides have agreed.
- 2
Discovery and scanning
3-7 days
Automated scanning across scoped assets, with credentialed scans where authorized for accurate findings. Timing agreed in advance so production is never surprised.
- 3
Manual review of findings
2-3 days
Every high-severity finding is manually reviewed to remove false positives before it reaches the report. Confirmed false positives are excluded with documented rationale, not silently dropped.
- 4
Prioritization and reporting
3-5 days
CVSS scores adjusted for business context. A written report with an executive summary, technical findings, a prioritized remediation roadmap, and a re-scan schedule, plus a debrief presentation.
- 5
Remediation tracking and re-scan
Ongoing
Findings tracked through remediation with status updates. Re-scan after each remediation cycle to verify closure, and month-by-month burndown reporting on what remains open.
What buyers ask before engaging.
Services that pair with vulnerability assessment.
Penetration testing
Manual exploitation that verifies which discovered vulnerabilities are actually exploitable.
Cybersecurity audit
The broader security posture review, including compliance-framework gap analysis.
Microsoft Sentinel SOC
Detection capability for vulnerabilities being exploited in real time.
Book a vulnerability assessment and get a written, prioritized report.
A 1-2 week assessment scoped to your attack surface. Output: a written report with a prioritized remediation roadmap, a debrief presentation, and a re-scan schedule. Continuous monitoring is available as an upgrade when you want the foundation layer running year-round.
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