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Forefront IT Security ServicesA penetration test is accurate for a day; your attack surface changes every week. We validate and prioritise every result by hand so you act on a short list of genuine risk, never a four-thousand-line scanner dump.
Continuous exposure management is a proactive discipline. Gartner calls it Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM), that replaces the point-in-time scan with constant visibility of your attack surface. Rather than a periodic snapshot, your external, internal, web and cloud surfaces are assessed on a cadence you control, so exposure becomes a living risk posture instead of an annual event. Every cycle is validated and prioritised by hand, then delivered through the AETOS platform: findings are ranked by real business impact and tracked to closure to compress mean time to remediate (MTTR), keeping residual risk within your risk appetite and evidencing due diligence to auditors, customers and the board.
External
On-demand · ScheduledInternet-facing perimeter, public services and exposed cloud assets.
Internal
On-demand · ScheduledCorporate network, Active Directory, internal services and lateral-movement paths.
Web
On-demand · ScheduledWeb applications, APIs, business logic and OWASP coverage.
Cloud
On-demand · ScheduledAWS, Azure and GCP. IAM, storage, network and compliance-benchmark posture.
Run any surface on demand or on a schedule you control, daily, weekly or monthly, per scope
Watch exposure score and risk posture trend over time, not as disconnected snapshots
Measure remediation velocity and mean time to remediate (MTTR) across your DevSecOps pipeline
Give stakeholders a self-service, 24/7/365 view of residual risk, coverage and progress
A penetration test is accurate on the day it runs and steadily less so every day afterwards. New systems are deployed, configurations drift, certificates lapse and fresh CVEs are published every week. Continuous Vulnerability Assessment closes that gap with systematic scanning at regular intervals across your external perimeter, application estate and internal systems, minimising the window of opportunity an attacker has between your full tests.
The hard part of continuous scanning is not running the scanner; it is the noise. We cut through it: findings are validated, deduplicated and prioritised by real-world risk so your team acts on what matters and ignores what does not. New assets and newly published vulnerabilities affecting your estate trigger alerts, and we are on hand to interpret results and help you plan remediation rather than leaving you to drown in a raw export.
Every cycle is validated and prioritised by hand, then delivered through the AETOS platform and aligned to the CIS Controls and the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, so the service tracks your posture as a trend over time rather than a series of disconnected snapshots, a cost-effective baseline of assurance between the deeper, manual engagements that uncover the issues automation cannot.
Continuous monitoring of internet-facing infrastructure, websites and exposed services, with new ports, hosts and shadow-IT assets flagged as they appear on your perimeter.
Regular authenticated and unauthenticated assessment of your web applications and services for common vulnerability classes and newly disclosed issues affecting your stack.
Scheduled credentialed scanning of internal hosts, servers and services to surface missing patches, end-of-life software and configuration weaknesses across the estate.
Daily, weekly or monthly cadence to match your risk appetite, change rate and compliance obligations, tightened around high-change or high-sensitivity assets.
Results are triaged to strip out false positives and ranked by exploitability and business impact, so remediation effort is spent on genuine, high-priority risk first.
Targeted alerts when a new asset appears or a newly published CVE affects something you run, so emerging exposure is caught in days, not at the next annual test.
Every engagement follows a structured, phased process, so you know exactly what happens, when, and what you receive at each stage.
We agree the perimeter, applications and internal ranges in scope, set scan windows and credentials, and establish a baseline of your current assets and posture in AETOS.
Authenticated and unauthenticated scans run on your chosen cadence across the defined scope, continuously discovering assets and assessing them against an up-to-date vulnerability feed.
Raw output is triaged to remove false positives and collapse duplicates, so each genuine issue is reported once, clearly, rather than as scanner noise.
Findings are ranked on exploitability, exposure and business impact, and mapped to CIS Controls and the NIST CSF, so the most dangerous issues rise to the top.
New exposures and relevant CVEs trigger targeted alerts, while periodic reports and the AETOS portal give you both the detail and the posture trend over time.
A consultant helps interpret results and plan fixes, and we tune scope and cadence as your estate evolves so coverage stays accurate and noise stays low.
We agree the perimeter, applications and internal ranges in scope, set scan windows and credentials, and establish a baseline of your current assets and posture in AETOS.
Authenticated and unauthenticated scans run on your chosen cadence across the defined scope, continuously discovering assets and assessing them against an up-to-date vulnerability feed.
Raw output is triaged to remove false positives and collapse duplicates, so each genuine issue is reported once, clearly, rather than as scanner noise.
Findings are ranked on exploitability, exposure and business impact, and mapped to CIS Controls and the NIST CSF, so the most dangerous issues rise to the top.
New exposures and relevant CVEs trigger targeted alerts, while periodic reports and the AETOS portal give you both the detail and the posture trend over time.
A consultant helps interpret results and plan fixes, and we tune scope and cadence as your estate evolves so coverage stays accurate and noise stays low.
Every engagement is delivered to be acted on, by your board and your engineers alike.
Regular vulnerability reports with validated, deduplicated and prioritised findings
Real-time alerts when new exposures, assets or relevant CVEs appear on your estate
Security-posture trend tracking over time, with metrics on risk reduction and remediation velocity
A live, always-current view of findings and asset inventory in the AETOS portal
Consultant guidance to interpret results, separate signal from noise and plan remediation
A cost-effective continuous baseline of assurance between full penetration tests
No, it complements it. Continuous assessment keeps watch for new and known vulnerabilities between engagements, but it cannot replace the manual, exploit-led testing that uncovers business-logic flaws, chained attacks and authorisation issues automation cannot reason about. The two together give you both continuous coverage and periodic depth.
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