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Vulnerability Scanning

Authenticated vulnerability scans of your target systems will identify issues such as missing patches, configuration issues, and misconfigured permissions. 

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What Happens During an Authenticated Vulnerability Scan?

An authenticated vulnerability scan uses an authorized account to scan your systems for vulnerabilities. Typically, the scanner is configured to use valid credentials to access the in-scope hosts (although agents can also be used).

Authenticated Vulnerability Scans Can Help You:

Schellman’s Vulnerability Scanning Methodology

When running an authenticated vulnerability scan, we customize profiles for accuracy and efficiency ahead of careful planning and coordination between our scanning team. For any hosts that the scanner cannot log into, they will still be scanned from an unauthenticated perspective.

Is Schellman the Right Firm for You?

Schellman does perform authenticated vulnerability scans—our Penetration Testing Team continues to grow and is currently comprised of individuals from different backgrounds including former developers, system administrators, and lifelong security professionals. Our team is incredibly experienced, and collectively holds the following professional certifications, among others: 

Should I test authenticated or unauthenticated on my internal network?

Authenticated vulnerability scanning is always preferred. When the scanner can login to the hosts in scope, it can enumerate much more information than from an unauthenticated state, which would only show the services (ports) listening on the local host. Authenticated scans will take longer but will be less stressful on the network and provide you with much more actionable information.

How long does an authenticated vulnerability scan take?

How much does an authenticated vulnerability scan cost at Schellman?

What if I have fragile hosts on the network?

Should this be done after hours?

What type of credentials do you need?

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