Vulnerability Assessment & Scanning

Vulnerability Assessment & Scanning Services

Identify, analyze, and understand weaknesses across your entire IT ecosystem with automated + manual vulnerability assessment.

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Vulnerability Assessment Introduction

What is Vulnerability Assessment & Scanning?

Vulnerability Assessment & Scanning is a systematic process of identifying, analyzing, and prioritizing security weaknesses across your IT infrastructure. DSS uses automated enterprise-grade scanners along with expert manual verification to detect misconfigurations, outdated software, weak authentication, insecure network ports, cloud exposures, and application-level vulnerabilities.

Our assessment not only discovers vulnerabilities but also provides actionable remediation steps to minimize risks and strengthen your organization’s security posture before attackers can exploit them.

Our Vulnerability Assessment & Scanning Services

DSS provides end-to-end vulnerability discovery, analysis, and remediation guidance across all digital environments.

Network Vulnerability Assessment

Identify insecure ports, weak protocols, misconfigurations, outdated systems, and exposed network assets.

Web Application Scanning

Detect OWASP Top-10 vulnerabilities including SQLi, XSS, IDOR, SSRF, authentication flaws, and logic bypasses.

Cloud Security Assessment

Analyze misconfigurations, public exposure, weak IAM policies, unsafe S3 buckets, and insecure cloud setups.

Mobile App Vulnerability Scanning

Evaluate Android/iOS app security, API issues, insecure storage, data leakage, and broken authentication.

API Security Scanning

Scan REST & GraphQL APIs for broken access control, insecure endpoints, token leaks, and injection flaws.

Server & Endpoint Vulnerability Assessment

Check operating systems, antivirus status, patch levels, and endpoint misconfigurations.

Tools Used in Vulnerability Assessment & Scanning

DSS uses advanced automated scanners and manual analysis tools to identify, validate, and prioritize vulnerabilities across infrastructure, cloud, networks, and applications.

Nessus

Nessus

OpenVAS

OpenVAS

Qualys

Qualys

Nmap

Nmap

Wireshark

Wireshark

Nikto

Nikto

Acunetix

Acunetix

Rapid7

Rapid7

Metasploit

Metasploit

Burp Suite

Burp Suite

OWASP ZAP

OWASP ZAP

SQLmap

SQLmap

Nessus

Nessus

OpenVAS

OpenVAS

Our Vulnerability Assessment & Scanning Process

DSS follows industry-standard methodologies including OWASP, NIST, CIS Benchmarks, and PCI-DSS guidelines to ensure accurate vulnerability identification, validation, and remediation planning.

01

Asset Identification

Identifying and categorizing all systems, applications, endpoints, network devices, and cloud resources included in the assessment scope.

02

Vulnerability Scanning

Running automated scanners (Nessus, OpenVAS, Qualys) to detect known vulnerabilities, missing patches, insecure configurations, and exposed attack surfaces.

03

Manual Validation

Manually verifying high-risk findings, eliminating false positives, and confirming exploitability to ensure accurate and actionable results.

04

Risk Analysis

Prioritizing vulnerabilities based on CVSS scoring, business impact, exploitability, threat level, and environmental factors.

05

Reporting & Remediation

Delivering a detailed report with categorized findings, impact analysis, recommended fixes, and remediation roadmap for improved security posture.

Vulnerability Assessment & Scanning FAQ

Common questions to help you understand how DSS performs vulnerability assessment, scanning, validation and reporting.

1. What is Vulnerability Assessment & Scanning? +
Vulnerability Assessment & Scanning is the process of identifying, analyzing, and prioritizing security weaknesses across networks, systems, cloud, and applications using automated scanners and manual validation.
2. Will scanning affect our production systems? +
No. DSS uses non-intrusive scanning methods designed to avoid downtime, ensuring your production environment remains stable and uninterrupted.
3. What vulnerabilities can be detected? +
Missing patches, misconfigurations, insecure services, open ports, outdated components, weak authentication, cloud misconfigurations, and known CVEs across your IT infrastructure.
4. What tools do you use for scanning? +
DSS uses industry-leading tools such as Nessus, OpenVAS, Qualys, Rapid7, Nmap, Acunetix, and Wireshark along with manual validation to ensure accuracy.
5. What report will we receive? +
You will receive a detailed report with CVSS scores, affected systems, technical explanations, business impact, screenshots, and prioritized remediation guidance.
6. Do you offer retesting after issues are fixed? +
Yes. DSS provides full retesting to verify that all vulnerabilities have been successfully resolved and no new issues exist.