Vulnerability Management and Scanning for SMEs

We run automated vulnerability scans weekly against your internal and external assets, with on-demand scans available after significant changes such as new server deployments or application updates. Weekly scanning ensures newly disclosed CVEs are identified promptly across your environment. With 43% of UK businesses experiencing a breach in the past year (DSIT 2025), frequent scanning is essential to close vulnerability windows before attackers can exploit them.

We prioritise vulnerabilities using a risk-based approach that combines CVSS severity scores with real-world exploitability data, asset criticality, and your specific business context. A critical vulnerability on an internet-facing server takes precedence over the same CVE on an isolated internal machine. This risk-based prioritisation ensures your team focuses remediation effort where it reduces the most risk, rather than chasing every low-severity finding.

Our standard SLAs target remediation of critical vulnerabilities within 14 days and high-severity findings within 30 days, aligned with Cyber Essentials patching requirements. For actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities, we escalate immediately and work with your team to apply emergency patches or mitigations within 48 hours. Only 14% of UK businesses review cyber risks from their immediate suppliers (DSIT 2025), so maintaining tight patch SLAs also strengthens your position in supply chain assessments.

Yes. Regular vulnerability scanning supports compliance with Cyber Essentials, ISO 27001, UK GDPR, and PCI DSS requirements. Our reports provide audit-ready evidence of your scanning schedule, identified vulnerabilities, and remediation timelines. Cyber Essentials certified organisations are 92% less likely to claim on cyber insurance (IASME), and demonstrating ongoing vulnerability management is a key factor in both certification and insurance underwriting assessments.

Vulnerability scanning is an automated, recurring process that identifies known weaknesses across your environment on a regular schedule. Penetration testing is a manual, in-depth exercise where a qualified tester attempts to exploit vulnerabilities and chain them together to simulate a real attack. The two are complementary — scanning provides continuous visibility, whilst annual pen testing validates whether identified vulnerabilities can actually be leveraged by an attacker to cause harm.