Vulnerability Assessment Audit Support
Vulnerability assessment is the most common audit finding because most teams run scanners without acting on the output. Digital Defense provides VA audit support: quarterly authenticated scans, manual triage, regulator-ready reports and remediation tracking — so VA stops being a checkbox.
Who needs this
Regulated entities required to demonstrate quarterly / continuous VA
Teams running Nessus / Qualys / Rapid7 but not closing the loop
Auditors needing independent VA reports for review
Asset-heavy enterprises (manufacturing, retail, healthcare) with sprawling endpoints
DevOps teams adopting CI/CD-integrated dependency scanning
Problems we solve
- 01
Scanners producing thousands of issues with no triage signal
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No clear ownership for vulnerability remediation (security vs. ops vs. dev)
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Reports rejected by auditors because remediation status isn't traceable
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Continuous patching SLAs not met; same CVEs re-appear quarter on quarter
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External-facing assets discovered late (forgotten subdomains, S3 buckets, dev instances)
Our methodology
- 1
Asset discovery
Active + passive discovery across cloud, network, endpoints, code repos, container registries.
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Authenticated scanning
Tenable / Qualys / Rapid7 authenticated scans; CIS Benchmarks; OS hardening checks.
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Triage & prioritization
CVSS + EPSS + business-impact + exploit-availability ranking; suppression rules for noise.
- 4
Remediation orchestration
Ticket creation in Jira/ServiceNow; SLA tracking; patch verification; exception management.
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Reporting
Auditor-ready quarterly VA report; trend graphs; SLA adherence; closed/open posture.
What you receive
Asset-discovery inventory + CMDB-ready export
Quarterly authenticated VA report (CERT-In aligned)
Prioritised remediation backlog (with SLA timestamps)
Remediation orchestration runbook + Jira/ServiceNow integration
Year-over-year posture trend report
Frequently asked questions
Which scanners do you support?
We're tool-agnostic — Tenable (Nessus, Tenable.io, Tenable One), Qualys VMDR, Rapid7 InsightVM, and open-source (OpenVAS, Trivy, Grype) for containers.
Do you provide the scanner license or do we?
Either. We can BYO our enterprise scanner, run on your license, or help you procure and operationalize a license. For long-term ops, owning the license usually wins on TCO.
How is VA different from VAPT?
VA is breadth (find all vulnerabilities across assets, primarily via scanners). VAPT adds depth (manual exploitation, business-impact validation). Most regulators want both — VA quarterly, VAPT annually.
Can you integrate VA with our CI/CD?
Yes — SCA (Snyk, Sonatype, Veracode SCA, Dependabot), container scanning (Trivy, Grype, ECR scan), and IaC scanning (Checkov, Tfsec) integrated into your pipelines with gating policies.
Do you provide remediation, or only assessment?
Both. We provide remediation orchestration (ticketing, SLA tracking) and, for high-effort fixes, a managed remediation team that ships patches with your engineers.
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