Managed security
A longer list
isn’t progress.
Regular scans of your systems and networks, then the bit most programs skip, which is patching what they found. We rank flaws by what an attacker can actually reach, not by the color the scanner painted them.
- Internal and external scansWhat vulnerability management coversWatching
- Priorities that fit your businessWhat vulnerability management coversWatching
- Patching through the same automationWhat vulnerability management coversWatching
- Controls for what can’t be patchedWhat vulnerability management coversWatching
- Closed means rescannedWhat vulnerability management coversWatching
- Trends worth readingWhat vulnerability management coversWatching
Foothills Digital—Sentrello Premier Partner
- AWS
- Azure
- Google Cloud
- DigitalOcean
- On-premises Linux
- On-premises Windows
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Where this usually starts
Same report as last quarter, plus a page
Nothing’s wrong with the scanner. It’s everything meant to happen after the scan that keeps not happening.
- The critical count climbs with every scan, and nobody can say which of them face the internet.
- That one server makes the list every month, because patching its OS breaks the vendor app running on it.
- The spreadsheet tracking fixes belongs to someone who left in the spring.
- A flaw on an isolated test box outranks a medium on the VPN, because the list is sorted by score alone.
- Asked how you know it got fixed, the honest answer is “it stopped showing up.”
What we do instead
Rank by what’s reachable, then close it
A severity score tells you how bad a flaw could be on some machine, somewhere. What you need to know is narrower: whether it’s on a machine of yours that’s exposed, and whether anyone is exploiting it right now. We rank on that, patch what can be patched, put a compensating control around what can’t, and rescan to prove it. The list gets shorter, and you can show someone why.
How it works
How the cycle runs
It repeats on a schedule, and the repeating is the whole point.
Know what you’ve got
Scanning an inventory nobody trusts means scanning some of your network. We reconcile what the scanner sees with what your asset records say exists, and the difference is finding number one.
Scan on schedule, with credentials
Internal and external, signed in wherever you’ll give us access, because an unauthenticated scan sees a door and guesses what’s behind it. Workstations, servers, network gear, cloud workloads, and the web host everyone forgot about.
Rank by exposure
Is it on the internet? Is there a public exploit? Is it being used in attacks right now? Does the box hold anything that matters? Those answers reshuffle the list, usually dramatically.
Patch it or fence it, and say which
Patches roll out through the automation that already manages your endpoints and servers, in a window you’ve approved. Anything that can never be patched gets a written control instead, whether that’s segmenting it, firewalling it, watching it closely or retiring it.
Prove it’s closed
A rescan confirms each fix. The record shows the finding, the decision, the change and the check, which is what auditors, insurers and boards all ask to see.
What vulnerability management covers
Internal and external scans
Scheduled and authenticated wherever possible, across Windows, macOS and Linux endpoints, Windows and Linux servers, network equipment and cloud workloads, on any web host.
Priorities that fit your business
Exploitability, exposure and what the machine holds all count for more than the raw score. You end up working from the same list an attacker would.
Patching through the same automation
Updates go out through the tooling that already manages your machines, with the window, the rollback and the result logged. Anything that needs hands-on attention gets an engineer.
Controls for what can’t be patched
The legacy app. The appliance whose vendor stopped shipping firmware. The box running something you can’t switch off. Each gets a written control and a review date, so it doesn’t get forgotten.
Closed means rescanned
Every finding closes on a rescan, never on a promise. The trail runs from discovery to verification, and it’s yours to hand over.
Trends worth reading
New findings, recurring findings, and the systems that keep producing them. Recurring is the column to watch. It shows where the process is broken, not just the software.
Related
Penetration Testing
Simulated attacks on your external and internal defenses, run by our own engineers, never a subcontractor. You get the scope in writing, a report you can act on, and a retest to prove the fixes held.
Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR)
Continuous monitoring of every laptop, desktop and server for behavior that looks like an attack, whether anyone’s seen that particular malware before or not. It’s the sensor the rest of your security runs on.
Compliance Management
We audit your setup against HIPAA, PCI-DSS, SOC 2 and ISO 27001, get you ready, and keep you there. The controls run all year and the evidence falls out of the running, so nobody spends audit week rebuilding twelve months from memory.
When did you last scan, and what happened after?
Your latest report, how patching works today, and any systems you already know you can’t touch.
From that we can say what we’d patch first, what we’d fence off, and how long your list really is once it’s ranked by what matters.
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