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Finding and fixing your cyber security vulnerabilities

Robust vulnerability scanning to identify and eliminate your internal and external risks.

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Regular vulnerability scanning can reduce risk of security incidents by 67%.

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93% of businesses improve their regulatory compliance with vulnerability scans.

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Organisations are 50% less likely to experience a security breach after vulnerability scanning.

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77% of organisations using vulnerability scanning improve their patch management processes.

Comprehensive vulnerability reports to improve corporate security posture.

When it comes to cyber security, knowledge truly is power.

 

Exploitation of vulnerabilities is the greatest cause of security incidents today, but when you don’t know what your weak points are, how can you patch them?

Our technicians and engineers will conduct thorough vulnerability scanning across your entire organisation – providing a full report of every potential exploit, every internal and external risk, and advise on how to make your business bulletproof.

Decades of cyber security heritage

Our experience, relationships, and tried-and-tested strategies have been forged over more than 20 years, which means we can cut straight to the heart of your problems and help you plug any gaps as quickly as possible.

Selective

We make careful choices when it comes to cyber security partnerships, utilising the best products and partners on the market – like Mimecast, Forcepoint, Sophos, Fortinet, SentinelOne, iBoss, and S-RM.

Collaborative

Vulnerability scanning is much more than just cyber security, which is why we’ll draft in our multi-disciplined experts.

Exhaustive

Our work is finished when we find every last vulnerability in your system, and not before. Our engineers are meticulous, thorough, and painstakingly precise.

Bespoke, tailored, and robust cyber security solutions.

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The challenges of Vulnerability Scanning:

Choice

Finding the right partner or product, with the right technology and techniques, is an essential first step in getting a thorough assessment of your risks. And knowing the difference between different vulnerability scans – like point in time vs continuous – is just as important.

Resource

Before looking at the market, you need to assess your in-house capacity. Do you need a partner to provide you with a report, or one who can also fix the faults they find, or both?

Skillset

Vulnerability scanning reports are complex and technical. If you don’t have the expertise to interpret and implement the recommendations, there is little point in having the service without also drafting in a specialist team.

Governance

In many compliance scenarios, there are requirements for Cyber Essentials, Cyber Essentials+, and Cyber Insurance that must be met and will need to be considered when looking for the right partner.

Scope

Different businesses require different levels of vulnerability scanning. Many services will analyse both internal and external risks, but some only do either/or. Clients need to fully understand their own requirements before they commit themselves to a specific partner.

Don’t just take
our word for it…

Commercial deliver. We are fortunate to work with some amazing partners. Here are some examples of great things we hear every day.

Newland Homes has consistently found Commercial to be an ethical and transparent company, providing sound advice and actively collaborating with us to develop our IT strategy over the years. Our businesses have grown together in a measured and pragmatic way, navigating the developments and challenges in the ever-changing world of IT over the past 15 years. Currently, we are working on a roadmap to transition fully into a cloud environment, the Modern Workplace. We are excited about this prospect and firmly believe that we have the right partner to lead and guide us.

Government Mandates

The FBI has made it mandatory for all US government departments to continuously scan for vulnerabilities across all network appliances, every fortnight, and fix everything they find within 24 hours. This burden of enforced protection is likely to spread across the world and into the private sector.

PEN-Combined Vulnerability Scanning

Penetration (PEN) testing goes hand-in-hand with vulnerability scanning, going one step further to try to actively exploit any risks identified in the original scan. The emergence of PTaaS (penetration testing-as-a-service) is making it easier to bundle these two related services together and access higher levels of protection.

Supply Chain Exploits

It’s becoming more and more common for security exploits to originate in the supply chain, rather than as a direct attack on your organisational framework. When businesses utilise so much software, and work with so many partners, vulnerability scanning needs to extend beyond a single company’s security posture.

Commercially beneficial

Take advantage of a multidisciplinary team of experts, market-leading relationships, and credentials.

Cutting Edge

We’re constantly testing new products and services in our labs, which means we can bring competitive advantages to your organisation as soon as they emerge.

Planet Friendly

We’re eco-conscious by nature and, even in the realm of technology and cyber security, there are still choices to be made to find the most sustainable solutions.

Working Together

We spend a lot of time listening to your teams and understanding your business, which means we’ll never recommend something that isn’t perfectly suited to you.

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Don’t just take
our word for it…

Commercial deliver. We are fortunate to work with some amazing partners. Here are some examples of great things we hear every day.

The Tesco procurement team have been delighted with the way Commercial share our desire to entrench sustainability into our supply chain – we really are kindred spirits. Our ethical and sustainability policies are of paramount importance to our reputation and the Commercial team reviewed and approved all products in a short timeframe. Commercial are already committed to the ETI base code and are working on achieving EcoVadis accreditation for all suppliers on the Tesco account.
The new Walsall Housing Group office is a fantastic, fresh and modern workplace thanks to the wonderful work of the Commercial interiors team. They created a steering group to work alongside us to understand our demands and held regular meetings during the design process to keep us informed of the progress. Our desire was for a more collaborative space, with meeting booths and one-to-one seating, rather than traditional desks – and they delivered a fantastic final fit-out over the full four-floor building.
Each year, Commercial supplies accessory packs to graduate trainees at a leading accountancy firm, which are then picked, packed, and delivered to their home addresses by the Commercial Foundation. This not only guarantees that every new employee has the necessary equipment to be productive from their first day but also allows their IT team to focus on other responsibilities. Collaborating with the Commercial Foundation generates substantial social value returns on investment for the firm and contributes to improving the lives of the Foundation's volunteers.
Wollens have enjoyed a long-standing and fruitful partnership with Commercial because they are always introducing innovations and improvements to our IT environment. As the threat of cyber-attacks increases it was vital that we strengthened our capabilities for dealing with a ransomware attack with a cloud-based backup solution. Our solution means data cannot be altered or deleted, giving us a crucial way of recovering data to minimise any potential downtime and financial losses
Working with Commercial for our branded materials has proved to be effective and collaborative. The team is efficient and they listen to requests for improvements. Commercial has made branded goods simple.
As E-commerce in retail continues to grow, Commercial’s stock-management and fulfilment expertise has allowed a leading UK retailer to free huge amounts of warehouse space. Commercial took on the stocking of our employee uniform, transferring to a new supplier with the management of the supply being consolidated into their existing supply accounts. Not only did this free vital space in their distribution centre, the consolidated supply of all GNFR delivered significant delivery cost savings.
At JoJo Maman Bébé we are happy to work with the Commercial Foundation and support inspiring work they do to help disadvantaged young adults. Like us, the Foundation are a B Corp certified organisation that is proven to put purpose ahead of profits. We have enjoyed working with their volunteers to help with a mug-making activity. We are now working alongside them to create an introduction gift for our new employees, these include printed mugs, pens and notebooks.

Frequently Asked Questions

To understand our vulnerability scanning service, or ask any questions that we haven’t answered, please get in touch.

What is vulnerability scanning?

Vulnerability scanning is a process of identifying, quantifying, and prioritising (or ranking) the security vulnerabilities in a computer system or network. They are used to detect potential security threats and take appropriate defensive measures to mitigate them.

What type of information does vulnerability scanning provide?

Vulnerability scanning provides detailed information about the security vulnerabilities present in a system or network. This includes information about the type of vulnerability, its severity, the affected system or network, and the recommended steps to mitigate the threat.

What type of threats does vulnerability scanning detect?

Vulnerability scanning is designed to detect a variety of threats such as those caused by malicious software, unpatched software, outdated software, and weak passwords.

What’s the difference between point in time and continuous vulnerability scanning?

Point in time scans are single of a system or network at a specific point in time. The results of this scan will provide detailed information about the system’s security posture at that specific moment. Continuous scans are regular of security posture over time – identifying trends in security posture and vulnerability levels and detecting new or changing vulnerabilities.

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Commercial’s range of expertise spans wider than cyber security.

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Sustainability

Because sustainability is at the heart of our business, we can support your organisation’s ethical, environmental and social value goals.
Commercial is ranked in the world’s top 5% of businesses for its ethical supply chain by EcoVadis.

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