Vulnerability Assessments

NCSC-approved scanning for Cyber Essentials Plus compliance

Continuous monitoring (not just annual pen tests)

Expert-led remediation with clear, actionable reports

Global coverage across 1,190+ assets in the UK, US, India, and more

ITIL-aligned service desk with certified engineers

ISO 27001, IASME, and Cyber Essentials PLUS accredited

Cost-effective, no need for in-house tools or training

Proactive patch management to close gaps swiftly

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IT vulnerabilities are a major concern for any business. With increasing cyber threats across the world, it’s crucial to understand the vulnerabilities in your IT system and act on them quickly.

With Redpalm’s managed vulnerability assessment service, you get automated scanning, expert analysis, and actionable remediation in one seamless solution. Our NCSC-approved vulnerability scanning tool delivers 24/7 monitoring across networks, servers, cloud environments, and endpoints, while our in-house consultants prioritise critical risks against best practice in order toguide your next steps safely. 

With daily device audits, monthly firewall checks, and regular review meetings, we ensure vulnerabilities are caught and patched fast, meeting Cyber Essentials Plus compliance standards.

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Vulnerability Assessments Data Sheet

Your Guide to Vulnerability Assessments

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How Vulnerability Assessments Help Keep You Secure

  • 80%

    Of successful breaches involve exploiting vulnerabilities

  • 50%

    Reduction in time to remediate critical vulnerabilities for organisations that implement regular vulnerability assessments

  • 48%

    Of ransomware cases started with software vulnerabilities

The Benefits of Vulnerability Assessments

Detect vulnerabilities: Our security vulnerability assessment service scans and identifies vulnerabilities with over government-grade accuracy and covers a wide range of on-premise, cloud and remote endpoints.

Understand What to Do Next: As part of our comprehensive service, we offer advice and remediation options following detailed audits and vulnerability testing.

We also offer regular reports for both technical engineers and management, ensuring you are updated on the vulnerabilities and able to implement remediation action.

A Step Toward Cyber Essentials: Cyber Essentials demands that any known vulnerability classed as critical or high risk should be remediated within 14 days of a patch being released. With the help of our cyber security assessment service, you can stay up-to-date on patching and remain compliant with Cyber Essentials.

Penetration Testing: We offer a variety of cyber security assessments, including penetration testing, typically conducted once or twice per year. Penetration testing helps you understand how far a malicious actor could penetrate your organisation and allows you to patch vulnerabilities before it’s too late. 

Rely on Redpalm: At Redpalm, we pride ourselves on our cyber security audit expertise and our friendly, personal service. Please get in touch to find out more.

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What are Security Vulnerability Assessments?

Regardless of what your business does, it’s highly likely that you use operating systems and applications for your daily operations. You may also handle sensitive information that needs to be protected. However, without a routine cyber security assessment, you remain exposed to software vulnerabilities that could be incredibly harmful to your business.

No matter what software you use, bugs and flaws in the code are a possibility. These bugs have the potential to become exploitable vulnerabilities in your internal systems. They can easily put the usability and the overall security of your systems at risk, making vulnerability testing essential.

Vulnerability assessments find out exactly how vulnerable your systems are to a cyberattack. They involve conducting regular cyber security audits of your systems to generate a detailed report. This report can be used to remediate the vulnerabilities and minimise the risk of security breaches and cyberattacks.

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During a vulnerability analysis, your systems are investigated to identify and assign score levels to all vulnerabilities that are found. The analysis then tells you what the threat for this vulnerability is, its likelihood, and what you can do in terms of remediation.

We also look into important business elements such as your network, web applications, IT devices and more to identify weak areas and provide the right solutions to fix them.

With our vulnerability testing and IT security audits, you will be able to identify, analyse and categorise security vulnerabilities in operating systems, business applications, endpoint devices, browsers and more.
Along with our remediation plan and strategies, we can assist you with the reconfiguration of your networks, operating systems and applications to keep your business as secure as possible.

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24/7/365 IT System Monitoring

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Our round-the-clock monitoring service keeps your network, servers and endpoints healthy. We identify and resolve issues before they become outages, ensuring maximum uptime and complete peace of mind.

Proactive Monitoring

Continuous monitoring of workstations and servers with automatic updates and threat protection.

Vulnerability Assessment vs Penetration Testing

A simple way to understand the difference between a vulnerability analysis and penetration testing is to assess how heavy the tests are. A vulnerability analysis is automated, which means that a tool generates an in-depth vulnerability report.

Penetration testing, however, is done manually and relies on whoever conducts the test to identify the vulnerabilities within your systems. To achieve the best results, combine automated vulnerability testing with manual penetration testing.

With Redpalm’s Professional and Managed Services, the benefits of both are always available.
This allows cyber security assessments and audits to be conducted thoroughly: best ensuring your systems are, and remain, secure.

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Our experts conduct an in-depth analysis and a thorough test of your business systems. We not only provide you with a detailed overview of your system vulnerabilities but also assist you with generating the right solutions to reduce the risk of encountering any security breaches.

We take pride in offering expert IT security audits and cyber security assessments that can minimise the risk for your business.

With Redpalm you stay assured, knowing you’re gaining clear visibility of your IT environment and system risks from experienced cyber security specialists.

 

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Our Recent Awards & Accreditations

We’re a certification body for Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus, and a Cyber Essentials partner for the East Midlands Cyber Resilience Centre – so you can trust us to help keep you secure

Why Choose Redpalm?

At Redpalm, we understand the urgency and importance of conducting in-depth IT security audits and checks to minimise threats and other risks. Our experts can assist you in providing maximum security to your business.

Moreover, our extensive experience allows us to effectively conduct our assessments with all kinds of systems and infrastructures, regardless of their size.

With services like hybrid IT, cybersecurity, technology procurement and more, we can look after all of your business needs.

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Frequently Asked Questions

A vulnerability assessment is an automated scanning process combined with expert analysis to uncover security weaknesses in your IT systems. It identifies bugs, misconfigurations and other flaws that could be exploited by cyber-attackers, and provides insights into how to fix them.

Because most successful breaches occur by exploiting vulnerabilities, regular assessments help you discover and understand security gaps before attackers do, reducing risk, improving your defences and helping prioritise remediation work.

Redpalm’s service includes automated daily scans of client devices, monthly firewall checks, expert interpretation of results, regular reporting to both technical and management teams, and strategic advice on what to do next.

Checks are performed daily on client devices and monthly on firewalls, with a monthly review meeting to highlight critical findings and determine remediation steps.

After detection, Redpalm’s cyber-security specialists provide detailed reports and remediation guidance so you know what vulnerabilities exist and the best steps to fix them.

The service supports compliance by focusing your patching efforts, helping to ensure that critical or high-risk vulnerabilities are remediated in line with Cyber Essentials requirements.

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