Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing

Explore the smart capabilities of Cloud4C’s state-of-the-art vulnerability assessment and testing services

As technology has advanced, so has the sophistication of cyber-attacks and malicious attempts from hackers to steal data and resources. This has also been aided by the free availability of various vulnerability exploitation tools on the internet that even script kiddies can leverage to cause serious damage to the organization.

Even small and medium enterprises cannot afford to overlook their organizational security posture as vulnerabilities would almost definitely lead to successful breaches and ransomware incidents. These small and medium enterprises today play an integral part in their respective ecosystems. Due to business functionalities or as outsourced services partners for MNCs (which would have the latest defences), they handle and work with sensitive PII. So, it becomes easier for hackers to target these smaller organizations and exploit their vulnerabilities.

Since March, 7,212 vulnerabilities have been published in 2024

91 New vulnerabilities have been discovered every day in 2024

The Average exploit development time for these vulnerabilites has been 9 days

This is why Vulnerability Risk Assessment and Penetration Testing (VAPT) is mandatory for industries and sectors where security is paramount. Most global compliance standards such as PCI DSS, HIPAA, CERT-In, etc., require periodic audits to ensure that organizations are able to identify, assess, and patch critical vulnerabilities quickly, and effectively. Cloud4C’s one-stop VAPT solutions with end-to-end vulnerability analysis and vulnerability scan help organizations identify and eradicate complex and hidden vulnerabilities and secure sensitive data.

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The Cloud4C Methodology of VAPT Services

Identify vulnerabilities and security weaknesses that may expose the information technology (IT) assets of an organization to the risk of compromise by malicious user or party.
Classify discovered vulnerabilities according to risk level and severity.
Improve the security posture of the organization by proactively identifying security weaknesses and insecure configuration present in IT assets and provide remediation actions.

The scope of the Vulnerability Assessment service includes all IT assets that are connected to the organization’s network. Vulnerability Assessment provides an insight into an organization’s current state of security, and the effectiveness of its countermeasures. Vulnerability Assessments is performed in two formats:

External Vulnerability Assessment:
Performed remotely with no internal access provided to our SOC team. The goal of this test is to identify and classify the weaknesses of the internet-facing IT assets of an organization such as Web applications, web servers, network endpoints, VPN, and e-mail servers. This test helps an organization to learn what external IT assets need security controls, patches, and general hardening.

Internal Vulnerability Assessment:
Performed from within the premises of the target organization, usually to identify and classify threats and weaknesses in the internal network. It helps an organization determine its compliance to global or local policies, standards and procedures in terms of information security, data protection and segmentation of networks.

Vulnerability Assessment is usually performed according to the following steps:

Discovery and Objectivity, Maturity Analysis
Vulnerability Scanning across the IT landscape: infra, platforms, networks, databases, apps, workloads
Identify IT assets against known security vulnerabilities
Perform Advanced Penetration Testing on scanned assets
Result Analysis and presentation
Review of identified vulnerabilities and eliminate false positives
Blueprint to remediate risks and enhance IT security end-to-end

Objective of Vulnerability Assessment Services
- Identify vulnerabilities and security weaknesses that may expose the information technology (IT) assets of an organization to the risk of compromise by malicious user or party.
- Classify discovered vulnerabilities according to risk level and severity.
- Improve the security posture of the organization by proactively identifying security weaknesses and insecure configuration present in IT assets and provide remediation actions.
Broader Scope of Service

The scope of the Vulnerability Assessment service includes all IT assets that are connected to the organization’s network. Vulnerability Assessment provides an insight into an organization’s current state of security, and the effectiveness of its countermeasures. Vulnerability Assessments is performed in two formats:

External Vulnerability Assessment:
Performed remotely with no internal access provided to our SOC team. The goal of this test is to identify and classify the weaknesses of the internet-facing IT assets of an organization such as Web applications, web servers, network endpoints, VPN, and e-mail servers. This test helps an organization to learn what external IT assets need security controls, patches, and general hardening.

Internal Vulnerability Assessment:
Performed from within the premises of the target organization, usually to identify and classify threats and weaknesses in the internal network. It helps an organization determine its compliance to global or local policies, standards and procedures in terms of information security, data protection and segmentation of networks.
The Implementation Process
Vulnerability Assessment is usually performed according to the following steps:
- Discovery and Objectivity, Maturity Analysis
- Vulnerability Scanning across the IT landscape: infra, platforms, networks, databases, apps, workloads
- Identify IT assets against known security vulnerabilities
- Perform Advanced Penetration Testing on scanned assets
- Result Analysis and presentation
- Review of identified vulnerabilities and eliminate false positives
- Blueprint to remediate risks and enhance IT security end-to-end

Cloud4C End-to-end Managed Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing Services

Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing for Web Applications

Cloud4C relies on a comprehensive framework for conducting a complete assessment of web applications. Our specialist penetration testing cloud team conducts thorough testing to identify and eliminate security vulnerabilities.

Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing for Mobile Applications

At Cloud4C, we follow Open Source Security Testing and Standard Penetration Testing methodologies to identify and eliminate the vulnerabilities in iOS and Android applications.

Penetration Testing for Internal and External Networks

We provide comprehensive Penetration Testing Services for internal and external works to simulate real-world attacks in order to identify and bridge the gaps in the network infrastructure.

Penetration Testing for Wireless Network

Cloud4C provides a range of wireless penetration services to identify vulnerabilities and quantify the damage that could be caused. It helps to restrict unknown entry to the organization's network.

Vulnerability Assessment for Remote Working Environment

We ensure that organizational networks, applications, and devices are completely protected and fully secured with an end-to-end remote working security assessment.

Deep Assessments

Cloud4C vulnerability assessment can be performed to identify all the affected assets of the organization. The goal is to identify known security exposures before malicious attackers can exploit them.

Subnet Scanning

We perform subnet scanning to identify active IP addresses and end-of-life operating systems and devices that can pose security risks.

Firewall Configuration Review

Cloud4C’s advanced penetration tester can easily detect unsafe configurations and instantly recommend protocols and changes to secure configuration.

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Cloud4C Self Healing Operations Platform (SHOP): Advanced Threat Management with Predictive and Preventive Healing

Cloud4C SHOP is a low code AI-powered platform that seamlessly integrates different tools and solutions necessary to deliver managed cloud services to enterprises. The intelligent platform brings dozens of diverse operational platforms, applications together including auto-remediation and self-healing onto a single system. This enables the entire infrastructure and applications landscape to be auto-managed through a single pane of glass while providing customers with a holistic view of their IT environments.

SHOP by Cloud4C prevents outages, predicts risks and avoids threats before they occur, automates risk responses (Self Healing), optimizes services, modernizes cloud operations and asset administration, and improves overall engineering efficiency up to 50%. Boost enterprise security with the help of advanced cybersecurity tools.

SHOP Benefits

Remedial & Autonomous

Our home-grown ML engine ensures the best possible remedial action suitable to the problem and the system.

Predictive & Preventive

By using clustering and regression models, SHOP can predict any anomalies that might lead to outages in a system, making sure they are quickly dealt with even before they occur (Self Healing).

Collective Knowledge

SHOP is also a full-stack infrastructure and Business Activity Monitoring solution that enables a 360-degree view of all the data relevant to flagging early warnings and issues that might occur.

Situational Awareness

SHOP collects all contextual data at the time of the anomaly to present relevant root cause scenarios enabling coherent and complete responses. Avail critical service disruption report analysis and elimination of recurring issues across OS, database, applications, platforms, etc. Proactive monitoring and preventive maintenance, service improvement across all areas from Infra to the Application layer.

Intelligent, Automated Operations Management

Integrate your cloud architecture with all your existing applications, tools, systems including third-party systems under one intelligent platform. Gain unparalleled control and security over your workflows, automate IT operations to optimize infra costs, and boost organizational productivity.

The Difference Maker - Why Rely on Cloud4C for Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing Services?

Service Enumeration

Service enumeration on the internal subnets to identify vulnerable services due to a lack of hardening controls or plain text protocols.

Categorize vulnerabilities

Cloud4C VAPT empowers organizations to assess assets and categorize vulnerabilities into critical, severe, and moderate groups based on NIST CVCC v3 scoring

CIS Hardening assessment

Assess organizational assets using CIS benchmarks with periodic checks is crucial to maintain its integrity, as well as improves the compliance of an asset

Automated penetration testing

Cloud4C VAPT automates exploitable critical vulnerabilities reported in the vulnerability assessment to prioritize critical vulnerabilities to address

Comprehensive reporting

Cloud4C VAPT offers comprehensive and out of box compliance reports for regulatory and custom requirements

ASV Certified

Vulnerability management solution is PCI –DSS Authorized scanning vendor which helps to clear compliance and audit requirements

Detailed Insights

Cloud4C offers a complete overview of identified risks and the business impact. Insights into vulnerabilities backed with actionable recommendations and strategic security recommendations help to secure organization data and infrastructure.

Holistic View of Security Infrastructure

Even when networks, devices, environments constantly shift, Cloud4C’s VAPT offers a comprehensive view of all the risks.

Immediate Identification of Exact Vulnerabilities

Continuous vulnerability assessment is imperative to identify vulnerabilities so they are reported along with vulnerability ageing, available exploits for these vulnerabilities, etc.

Ensure Complete Security with Expert Assistance

Cloud4C’s VAPT experts will help you provide the right information to the right people in your security team.

The Cloud4C Advantage

Trusted, the world’s largest application-focused managed cloud service providers and one of the leading managed cybersecurity companies.

Serving 4000+ enterprises including 60+ Fortune 500 organizations in 26 countries across Americas, Europe, Middle East, and APAC for 12+ years

40+ Security Controls, 25+ Centres of Excellence, 2000+ Global Cloud Experts

7 Security frameworks utilizing the MITRE ATT & CK, CIS Critical Security Controls, and more.

Comprehensive 24x7 cybersecurity monitoring programs

Automated solutions for security threats prediction, detection, and response: Advanced Managed Detection and Response Solutions.

Global expertise in managed SOC (Security Operations Center) services and solutions.

Dedicated cybersecurity consulting, cybersecurity assessment, and audit report offerings.

Advanced Cloud4C Cybersecurity Incident and Response (CSIRT) team.

Threat intelligence powered by industry-leading platforms such as Microsoft, OSINT, STIX&TAXI, MISP, and more.

Considerable threat management expertise in securing large and complex environments, using advanced functionalities of top-notch and leading industry tools as well as Cloud-Native Security tools.

Experience in deploying and managing robust SIEM - helping enterprises proactively assess vulnerabilities and automate incident response.

Dedicated alert identity and access management operations with 24/7 monitoring and response.

Real-time security reports and strategies