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Vulnerability Assessment & VAPT Services in Pakistan
Authenticated scanning and triage that cuts through false positives.
What it is
Breadth rather than depth: a systematic sweep of your estate to find known vulnerabilities, missing patches and weak configuration, with every result validated by an analyst so your team spends its time on issues that are real and reachable here.
Types of Vulnerability Assessment we deliver
External vulnerability assessment
Everything of yours that answers from the internet, including the hosts you forgot you owned. Shadow infrastructure is found in the majority of first engagements.
Internal vulnerability assessment
The view from inside the network: what a compromised laptop or a contractor's login can see and reach.
Cloud configuration assessment
AWS, Azure and Google Cloud reviewed against their own security baselines — public storage, over-permissive IAM, unencrypted volumes, absent logging.
Patch and build review
Which systems are behind, by how long, and which of those gaps are actually reachable. The reachable ones are the list that matters.
Continuous and scheduled scanning
Recurring assessment with trend reporting, so you can show an auditor that exposure is being tracked rather than discovered once a year.
How we do it
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Scope and asset confirmation
We agree the ranges, hosts and applications in scope and confirm ownership before scanning.
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Authenticated scanning
Credentialed scans wherever possible — uncredentialed scanning misses most missing patches and guesses at the rest.
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False positive elimination
Every finding is checked by an analyst against the actual host before it reaches your report.
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Exploitability triage
We separate what is theoretically vulnerable from what is exploitable in your configuration.
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Risk contextualisation
CVSS adjusted for exposure, compensating controls and business criticality of the asset.
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Trend tracking
On recurring engagements we track whether remediation is outpacing new findings.
What's included
- Credentialed scanning for accurate patch state
- Analyst validation of every reported finding
- Exploitability assessment, not raw CVSS
- Asset-criticality weighting
- Remediation grouped by fix, not by host
- Trend reporting on repeat engagements
Who needs it
- Organisations needing regular assurance across a broad estate
- Teams with a compliance obligation for periodic scanning
- Businesses building a patch programme and needing a baseline
Deliverables
- Validated findings with false positives already removed
- Remediation grouped so one action closes many findings
- Asset risk ranking
- Trend comparison against previous cycles
What Vulnerability Assessment costs
Priced per scan cycle on live hosts and applications, or as a managed programme.
The figure depends on scope, so we quote one fixed price in writing before any work begins. These are the things that move it:
- Live host and application count — The scanning itself scales with the count, though the validation afterwards scales faster.
- One-off or recurring — A single assessment is a snapshot. Monthly or quarterly cycles are a programme, priced lower per cycle and worth considerably more.
- Whether results are validated by hand — Scanner output is noisy. Someone confirming what is genuinely exploitable, and discarding what is not, is the difference between a report and a to-do list of false positives.
- Authenticated or unauthenticated — Authenticated scanning sees installed software and missing patches rather than guessing from banners. It needs credentials and it finds considerably more.
- Whether remediation is tracked to closure — Reporting a finding is cheaper than following it until it is fixed and verified. The second is what reduces risk.
A vulnerability assessment is not a penetration test and is not sold as one here. If a quote elsewhere looks unusually low for a "pentest", check which of the two you were actually offered.
Where we deliver Vulnerability Assessment
VAPT engagements run remotely for organisations throughout Pakistan, with on-site work available from our Multan office where internal scanning or physical access is required. Clients in Lahore, Karachi, Islamabad and across southern Punjab are served on identical terms, because scanning does not care where the analyst sits.
Further reading
- SBP cyber security requirements for financial institutions — where periodic independent assessment is required, and where penetration testing is named only as one way to meet it
Compliance relevance
Frequently asked questions
This finds known vulnerabilities across many systems. A penetration test proves what an attacker can chain together on a few. Most organisations need this quarterly and a penetration test annually.
You can, and you should. The work we add is validating the output and cutting the false positives — scanner reports routinely contain hundreds of findings that are not exploitable in your configuration.
Quarterly suits most organisations; monthly if you are in scope for PCI DSS or changing infrastructure rapidly.
Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing — the term most commonly used by Pakistani and Gulf buyers for a combined engagement. The vulnerability assessment is broad and largely automated: it finds and ranks known weaknesses across many systems. The penetration test is narrow and manual: it proves what can actually be exploited. Buying both gives you coverage and proof.
Sometimes, but usually not on its own. PCI DSS requires quarterly vulnerability scanning AND annual penetration testing — they are separate requirements. ISO 27001 and SOC 2 auditors generally expect evidence of both. Check what your specific framework and auditor require before buying only the cheaper half.
Quarterly at minimum, monthly for anything internet-facing, and after every significant change. A scan is a snapshot: its value decays from the moment it finishes. Organisations that scan once a year are describing a network that no longer exists.
Standard scanning is safe for production and we run it in agreed windows. Some checks are intrusive by nature and those are disabled unless you ask for them on a staging copy. Fragile legacy systems and OT environments are flagged in scoping and handled with passive techniques.
We validate before we report. A raw scanner export is not a deliverable — it is a list of things to check, and handing it over as a finished product is how security teams lose faith in the whole exercise. Every finding in our report has been confirmed by a person.
Breadth against depth. An assessment covers many systems and tells you what is probably wrong. A penetration test covers fewer systems and proves what is definitely wrong, by exploiting it. Most organisations need the assessment for coverage and the test for the systems that actually matter.
Yes — AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, reviewed against the provider's own baselines and against how you actually use it. Cloud findings are usually configuration rather than software: public buckets, IAM roles far wider than the job needs, logging switched off in the account nobody owns.
Priced per scan cycle on live hosts and applications, or as a managed programme. Beyond that the figure depends on scope — mainly live host and application count, one-off or recurring and whether results are validated by hand. We quote one fixed price in writing before any work begins, so the number does not move once the engagement starts. A vulnerability assessment is not a penetration test and is not sold as one here. If a quote elsewhere looks unusually low for a "pentest", check which of the two you were actually offered.
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