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# Managed **Vulnerability Scanning**

## Partner with experts to uncover weaknesses

Keeping up with changes to your business’s network can be difficult. Business growth and infrastructure changes means that new vulnerabilities can appear on a daily basis and must be quickly identified and addressed to avoid leaving critical data and assets exposed.

Our Managed Vulnerability Scanning service combines the latest vulnerability scanning tools and experienced security professionals to proactively inspect your network and provide the insight and guidance needed to address security weaknesses.

## What is vulnerability scanning?

Vulnerability scanning is the examination of computer networks to identify security weaknesses that can leave organisations exposed to cyber threats.

A vulnerability scanner, a highly specialised software tool, searches for exposures in computers, devices and applications by collecting information and comparing it to a database of known flaws.

Despite being an important tool for highlighting necessary improvements to cyber security, vulnerability scanners are also used by black hat hackers to identify ways to gain unauthorised access to networks. Failing to proactively scan your environment and address vulnerabilities could present adversaries with the opportunity they need to conduct attacks.

## Scanning or penetration testing — what is the difference?

They answer different questions, and the distinction is worth understanding before you buy either.

A **vulnerability scan** is automated and comprehensive. It checks everything it can reach against a database of known issues and reports what it finds. It runs in hours, it can run continuously, and it catches newly disclosed vulnerabilities as they emerge.

A **penetration test** is manual and selective. A tester attempts to exploit what they find, chains issues together, and demonstrates what an attacker could actually achieve in your environment.

Neither replaces the other. A scan tells you what is *potentially* wrong, continuously. A test tells you what is *actually* exploitable, at a point in time. The sensible pattern for most organisations is an annual [penetration test](https://cybersecurixglobal.co.uk/infrastructure-penetration-testing?hsLang=en) with managed scanning covering the eleven months in between — otherwise a vulnerability disclosed the week after your test sits undiscovered until the next one.

## Why managed, rather than running a scanner yourself

Buying a scanner is straightforward. Getting value from one is not, and this is where most in-house scanning programmes quietly stall.

A first scan of a typical small network returns several hundred findings. Many are duplicates of the same underlying issue across multiple hosts. A good number are false positives. Others are technically accurate but irrelevant — a vulnerability in a service that is not reachable, or a CVE whose exploitation requires conditions your environment does not present.

Faced with several hundred rows and no context, most teams triage the criticals, run out of time, and stop opening the reports. The scanner keeps running. Nobody reads it.

What we add is the interpretation: deduplication, false positive removal, and prioritisation based on what the finding means **in your environment** rather than its generic CVSS score. A medium-severity issue on your internet-facing VPN concentrator may well matter more than a high on an isolated test server, and no scanner knows the difference. You get a short list of things that genuinely need doing, in order.

## What we scan

- **External infrastructure** — everything you expose to the internet, including assets you may have forgotten are exposed
- **Internal networks** — servers, workstations, network devices and the systems behind your perimeter
- **Cloud environments** — workloads hosted in Microsoft 365, Azure, AWS and equivalent platforms
- **Web applications** — automated checks against your public-facing applications

You can use your own scanner or ours. If you have already invested in a platform, we work with it — there is no requirement to buy tooling twice.

## How the service works

1. **Scoping and onboarding.** We establish what is in scope, agree scan windows, and configure credentialed scanning where appropriate. Credentialed scans see substantially more than unauthenticated ones and produce far fewer false positives.
2. **Baseline scan.** The first scan establishes your current position. Expect this one to return the most findings; much of it will be accumulated backlog rather than anything new.
3. **Scheduled scanning.** Monthly or quarterly, at agreed times, without disruption to your users.
4. **Analysis and reporting.** We remove noise, add context, prioritise by real risk, and report.
5. **Remediation support.** Our experts remain available while you work through the findings, and the next scan confirms whether the fixes held.

## What you receive after each scan

- **An executive summary** showing your position and whether it is improving — the trend matters more than any single number
- **A technical summary** for the people doing the remediation
- **Detailed findings** with affected hosts, severity in context, and specific remediation advice
- **Comparison against the previous scan**, so you can see what has been resolved, what remains, and what is new
- **Direct access to our experts** during remediation

## Monthly or quarterly?

**Quarterly (from £1,000 a year)** suits stable environments that change slowly — a settled network, infrequent deployments, no major infrastructure programme in flight. It is also the sensible entry point if you are scanning for the first time.

**Monthly (from £2,000 a year)** suits environments that change often, organisations with a regulatory or customer-driven reporting obligation, and anyone whose insurer or enterprise customers ask about scanning frequency. Serious vulnerabilities are disclosed and weaponised in days rather than months; monthly narrows the window in which you are unknowingly exposed.

If you are unsure, start quarterly. Moving up is straightforward, and the first scan will tell us a great deal about how much your environment actually moves.

## Managed vulnerability scanning pricing

## Quarterly

 Managed Vulnerability Scans of your environment on a Quarterly basis

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- Quarterly Vulnerability Scans
- Use your own vulnerability scanner or ours
- Detailed Reporting
- Context to findings based on your environment
- Executive Summary
- Technical Summary
- Detailed Findings
- Actionable Remediation Advice
- Support with advice from our experts during Remediation
- Flexible Pricing

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From £1000/yr

[Enquire Now](https://cybersecurixglobal.co.uk/contact-us?hsLang=en)

## Monthly

 Managed Vulnerability Scans of your environment on a Monthly basis

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- Monthly Vulnerability Scans
- Use your own vulnerability scanner or ours
- Detailed Reporting
- Context to findings based on your environment
- Executive Summary
- Technical Summary
- Detailed Findings
- Actionable Remediation Advice
- Support with advice from our experts during Remediation
- Flexible Pricing

---

From £2000/yr

[Enquire Now](https://cybersecurixglobal.co.uk/contact-us?hsLang=en)

 FAQs

## Frequently asked questions about managed vulnerability scanning

##### [QUESTION Will scanning disrupt our systems or our users?](https://cybersecurixglobal.co.uk/managed-vulnerability-scanning#collapse1-dnd_area-module-13)

In normal operation, no. Scans run at agreed windows and standard scanning is designed to be non-disruptive. The exceptions worth knowing about are older or unusual equipment — some legacy devices, industrial controllers and network appliances respond poorly to being probed. We identify anything of that nature during scoping and either exclude it or scan it with reduced intensity. If you know of a fragile system, tell us before the first scan rather than after.

##### [QUESTION What is the difference between authenticated and unauthenticated scanning?](https://cybersecurixglobal.co.uk/managed-vulnerability-scanning#collapse2-dnd_area-module-13)

An unauthenticated scan sees what an attacker without credentials sees — open ports and service versions. An authenticated, or credentialed, scan logs in and inspects the system directly: installed software, patch level, configuration. Credentialed scanning finds substantially more and produces far fewer false positives, because it reads what is actually installed rather than inferring it from a banner. We recommend credentialed scanning for internal systems wherever it is practical.

##### [QUESTION Can we use our own scanner instead of yours?](https://cybersecurixglobal.co.uk/managed-vulnerability-scanning#collapse3-dnd_area-module-13)

Yes. If you have already invested in a scanning platform, we work with it. The value we add is the analysis and prioritisation rather than the tool itself, and there is no sense in paying for scanning technology twice. If you have no platform, we provide one as part of the service.

##### [QUESTION How many findings should we expect from the first scan?](https://cybersecurixglobal.co.uk/managed-vulnerability-scanning#collapse4-dnd_area-module-13)

More than you are expecting, and that is normal. A first scan of a typical small network commonly returns several hundred raw findings — but that number is misleading. Many are the same underlying issue repeated across multiple hosts, some are false positives, and others are technically valid but irrelevant in your environment. After deduplication, verification and prioritisation, the list of things that genuinely need action is usually a small fraction of the raw total. Judge the first scan by that shortlist, not by the headline count.

##### [QUESTION Does vulnerability scanning satisfy a customer security questionnaire?](https://cybersecurixglobal.co.uk/managed-vulnerability-scanning#collapse5-dnd_area-module-13)

It depends on what was asked, and the wording matters. Questionnaires asking whether you carry out regular vulnerability scanning are satisfied by this service, and the reports evidence it. Questionnaires asking specifically for a recent penetration test report are not — those require a penetration test, which is a different exercise. Read the exact wording before deciding which to buy, and send it to us if you would like a straight answer about which applies.

##### [QUESTION If we scan regularly, do we still need a penetration test?](https://cybersecurixglobal.co.uk/managed-vulnerability-scanning#collapse6-dnd_area-module-13)

For most organisations, yes — they answer different questions. Scanning tells you continuously what is potentially wrong by comparing your systems against a database of known issues. A penetration test tells you what a skilled attacker could actually achieve, including flaws no database contains: broken authorisation logic, flawed business processes, and issues that only become serious when chained together. The common pattern is an annual test with scanning covering the months between.

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