Business moves fast these days as market demands change and shift. A swift pace can make it easier to overlook critical updates and security patches. Unfortunately, bad actors know this and quickly exploit these potential weaknesses.
A complete vulnerability assessment can help you discover missed updates, patches and other issues that can create backdoors.
Depending on your industry, a regulatory agency may mandate vulnerability assessments at least annually for high-risk systems. For example, financial services, health care and retail companies must abide by multiple privacy laws to secure access to sensitive information.
Plus, many organizations rely on the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) guidelines to help inform their cybersecurity efforts. This Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) focuses on action — identify, protect, detect, respond and recover.
Detection (DE) responsibilities include continuous monitoring (CM). Vulnerability assessments satisfy this requirement and fall under standard DE.CM-8. A holistic analysis like the one Morefield performs scans for internal and external threats. We evaluate factors like:
At Morefield, we take a systematic approach to your evaluation and consider both external and internal threats. Your dedicated cybersecurity assessment consultant will begin with an initial meeting to determine the study’s precise scope.
Each assessment begins with a kickoff meeting with your dedicated cybersecurity vulnerability consultant. During this meeting, we’ll establish your project’s scope, completion time frame and business goals.
Your consultant collaborates with your organizational stakeholders to produce a list of high-risk systems and components our assessment software can analyze. This software helps us develop:
Once our experts conclude the initial vulnerability assessment, you receive:
Companies throughout the area turn to Morefield for vulnerability assessments because of our:
Our cybersecurity vulnerability consultants are ready to help you enhance your security posture with a better understanding of your unique risks and a customized plan to decrease them. Ready to see how we can help?
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