Overview

Moving away from point-in-time assessments and gaining valuable insight into the breadth of vulnerabilities within your systems is key to reducing your exposure successfully. Adopting a risk-based approach and prioritising remediation efforts is fundamental to overcoming the challenges of misconfiguration, end-of-life software / operating systems, and patching.

Another consideration is how risky that vulnerability is in your specific environment, and what and where the device with the vulnerability is. This information is available in our vSOC Connect Console.

The threat landscape is evolving constantly, with threat actors using sophisticated methods to attack. With the rise in Ransomware as a Service (RaaS) and the time it takes to deploy ransomware decreasing dramatically, there has never been such a crucial time to have an effective vulnerability management programme.

vSOC Recon Benefits

At Data Connect, we’re human and technology driven. Powerful technology and our diligent SOC team means we offer a straightforward onboarding process, and you can be confident with our ongoing support.

RISK-BASED SCANNING

Due to the rapidly evolving threat landscape, it can be hard to establish an effective way to prioritise remediating vulnerabilities. Common scoring systems can take a long time to register new weaknesses and can often be point-in-time based. At Data Connect, we provide a severity level that is determined by the security risk associated with its current exploitation in the wild.

CONTINUOUS VISIBILITY

Vulnerability management is made simple with our powerful, single pane of glass vSOC Connect Console. Here, you can view the prioritised remediation tasks for your team to action. Take ease of management one step further by using the portal for team workflow allocations, compliance reporting and to contact our SOC team quickly for support.

FAST SOC SUPPORT

Our SOC will be a valuable extension to your team and is on hand to support you with any queries. Whether you have experience with vulnerability management or are new to it, our team of skilled and certified experts will be able to break down the problem, whether it’s a misconfiguration or missing patch, and talk you through the remediation tasks.

STRATEGY MANAGEMENT

Maturing your vulnerability management programme so you can have full confidence in your security health while eliminating windows of exposure efficiently is something we help with. We offer monthly strategic sessions that will include monitoring and measuring your progress, maximising your use of the vSOC Recon tool, and patch advice.

OFF-NETWORK SCANNING

When devices are off network, our technology gives us the ability to still check for vulnerabilities. Where an agent can’t be installed, we can perform alternative scans on these devices so you still have visibility. These results will be presented within the vSOC Recon dashboard.

LARGEST VULNERABILITY DATABASE

We give you peace of mind from the fact that the service utilises an extensive vulnerability database that’s constantly being revised to map current exploitation trends. The Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) is just one of the factors taken into account when assessing the risk associated with a vulnerability, whereas many entry level vulnerability scanning tools rely on this system only.

vSOC Connect Console

  • Sleek and User-Friendly Design

    vSOC Recon, like all our managed services, is delivered through a dynamic and clean dashboard, giving our customers full transparency and control of their security

  • All-in-One Dashboard

    This shows all misconfigurations and software/hardware vulnerabilities across all devices – including Windows, Linux, Mac and the network perimeter – in one place

  • Compliance Reporting

    The console will show you any high-risk vulnerabilities that will lead to Cyber Essentials certification failure, so you can stay compliant throughout the year. It can also create bespoke reports for ISO 27001 and PCI DSS

  • Top Vulnerabilities Affecting Your Organisation

    Change your view of the top 10 vulnerabilities affecting your whole organisation. Find out which assets are more at risk or list the vulnerabilities, allowing you to prioritise your workflow easily

  • Common Evolving Threats

    Some software vulnerabilities are so critical that they impact all businesses; Log4Shell/Log4j is a prime example of this. Use the vSOC Connect Console to identify these risks in your system quickly

  • Comprehensive Vulnerability Reporting

    Drill down to inspect a single asset or find out how many devices are affected by a specific vulnerability. You can also build custom dashboards; for example, to track specific vulnerability attributes or groups of devices

  • Sleek and User-Friendly Design

    vSOC Recon, like all our managed services, is delivered through a dynamic and clean dashboard, giving our customers full transparency and control of their security

  • All-in-One Dashboard

    This shows all misconfigurations and software/hardware vulnerabilities across all devices – including Windows, Linux, Mac and the network perimeter – in one place

  • Compliance Reporting

    The console will show you any high-risk vulnerabilities that will lead to Cyber Essentials certification failure, so you can stay compliant throughout the year. It can also create bespoke reports for ISO 27001 and PCI DSS

  • Top Vulnerabilities Affecting Your Organisation

    Change your view of the top 10 vulnerabilities affecting your whole organisation. Find out which assets are more at risk or list the vulnerabilities, allowing you to prioritise your workflow easily

  • Common Evolving Threats

    Some software vulnerabilities are so critical that they impact all businesses; Log4Shell/Log4j is a prime example of this. Use the vSOC Connect Console to identify these risks in your system quickly

  • Comprehensive Vulnerability Reporting

    Drill down to inspect a single asset or find out how many devices are affected by a specific vulnerability. You can also build custom dashboards; for example, to track specific vulnerability attributes or groups of devices

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Why Data Connect?

At Data Connect, we blend security expertise with market-leading technology to deliver our vSOC Recon service. By identifying vulnerabilities and layering this with specific knowledge of your environment, you can manage remediation tasks to reduce organisational risk.

  • A simplified onboarding process
  • Scan your whole IT estate
  • Our security experts are on hand to help you

Free Trial

Do you want to try vSOC Recon for yourself? We’re proud that we’ve met 100% of the service level agreements (SLAs) for all our managed services for the last two years. Get in contact to find out about our service and arrange your free 30-day trial

Services

vSOC AIM
vSOC Alert
vSOC Aware
vSOC CERT
vSOC Manage

FAQs

When discussing vulnerability management, it is important to know exactly what is classed as a vulnerability as this can have many meanings. Regarding vulnerability management, we are referring to software vulnerabilities (sometimes known as bugs) and configuration vulnerabilities in hardware and software which are weak configurations that may leave an organisations systems exposed.

The challenge we see organisations face is lack of visibility, with many reliant on point-in-time assessments such as penetration testing or monthly vulnerability scans. These approaches can often lead teams to be overwhelmed with reels of data to action as the most important factor to vulnerability management is missing. Management and prioritisation are key to an effective and mature programme. Without these your attack surface may be left open to the most critical vulnerabilities, heightening the risk of attack. 

Misconfigurations and software / hardware vulnerabilities can appear at any time, which is another downfall to point-in-time assessment as they are often monthly or yearly, which leads to a longer window of exposure.