Vulnerability Assessment & Risk Prioritization
Cut the noise. Smartfind combines smart scanning, manual validation, and real business context to turn a long list of CVEs into a focused, risk-ranked remediation plan your engineering and IT teams can actually execute. Instead of “infinite findings”, you get a clear view of which weaknesses matter, why they matter, and what to fix first.
- Ideal for product teams, IT, and security owners who want clarity instead of scanner spam
- Aligned to real-world attacker techniques, not just theoretical vulnerabilities
- Supports compliance journeys (ISO 27001, SOC 2) with evidence that auditors understand
- Designed to plug into your existing workflow tools (Jira, Azure Boards, etc.)
What you get
Our assessment transforms raw scanner output into an engineer-ready backlog. We deduplicate, validate, and enrich every item with asset ownership, technical impact, and business criticality so product, platform, and IT teams can prioritize confidently without losing days interpreting reports.
Instead of a PDF that everyone reads once and forgets, you get a living remediation plan that can plug into your sprints, your change windows, and your risk register. Each recommendation is written to be understandable by engineers, defensible for auditors, and meaningful for leadership.
Business outcomes
- Risk-based backlog with owners, SLAs, and clear due dates
- Evidence pack suitable for ISO 27001 / SOC 2 / customer security reviews
- Measured reduction in exposed attack surface over each cycle
- Clarity on “what must be fixed now” vs. “what can be scheduled”
- Stronger story for leadership and board: where risk is reducing and why
Technical outcomes
- Validated vulnerabilities (scanner noise and duplicates removed)
- Exploitability details, affected versions, and realistic attack paths
- Step-by-step fixes with vendor references and change hints
- Grouping by system owner, environment, or squad for easier planning
- Optional retest scenarios and verification steps for your teams
High-value use cases
Attack-surface refresh
Baseline internet-facing assets, discover forgotten services, and catch exposure regressions before attackers do.
- Domain, DNS, TLS, and WAF posture checks
- Discovery of shadow IT or legacy endpoints still exposed
- Quick wins list for hardening external perimeter
Patch hygiene
Prioritize vulnerabilities with active exploits, reachable paths to critical data, and weak compensating controls.
- Link CVEs to real systems and owners, not just generic products
- Highlight high-risk combinations (unpatched + exposed + privileged)
- Guided remediation batches that fit into existing change windows
Cloud & SaaS posture
Find public buckets, weak roles, risky SaaS settings, and misconfigured apps that create silent, high-impact exposure.
- Review of key cloud accounts and critical SaaS platforms
- Clear callouts for dangerous defaults and overly-broad permissions
- Recommended guardrails, reference policies, and baselines
Coverage areas
External perimeter
Domains, DNS, TLS, WAF, exposed services, and common misconfigurations that attackers routinely scan for first. We look at how your organization appears from the internet and identify quick, high-impact fixes.
Internal network
Legacy protocols, weak shares, outdated services, and AD exposures that enable lateral movement once an attacker is inside. The focus is on choke points that dramatically reduce internal blast radius.
Applications & APIs
Dependency CVEs, security headers, auth flows, rate limits, and schema validation. We combine automated scanning with targeted checks for common web and API weaknesses.
Cloud & identity
Public storage, key/role hygiene, admin app permissions, and tenant-wide settings for major cloud providers and IdPs. We flag over-privileged roles and risky configurations that could lead to tenant-wide compromise.
Endpoints & servers
OS and application patching, EDR coverage, secure configuration baselines, and credential protection. This helps ensure that a single compromised endpoint doesn’t easily escalate into a full environment breach.
SaaS platforms
Admin controls, risky defaults, data-sharing configurations, and 3rd-party app access for collaboration and business tools. We highlight simple configuration changes that reduce data leakage risk and account takeover impact.
Risk prioritization model
| Factor | Signals | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| Exploitability | Public exploit, active scanning, low-complexity | High |
| Exposure | Internet-facing, reachable path to data | High |
| Impact | Data sensitivity, privilege level | High |
| Prevalence | # of affected assets, version spread | Medium |
| Compensating controls | WAF, EDR, segmentation | Medium |
Smartfind’s scoring model is transparent: every finding clearly shows why it was rated at a certain level, which factors contributed most to the score, and how that score might change after remediation or when new threats emerge. This makes prioritization easier to explain and defend in risk committees and audits.
Methodology
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1) Discovery
Asset inventory, scope confirmation, safe testing rules, and change windows. We align with system owners and define what is in-scope, out-of-scope, and any constraints (performance, uptime, compliance).
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2) Scan & validate
Tooling plus targeted manual checks to remove false positives and confirm real impact. We verify critical findings and enrich them with reproduction steps and contextual notes for your engineers.
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3) Enrich & prioritize
Add ownership, exploit intelligence, exposure paths, and compensating controls. Each item is mapped to the systems, teams, and processes it affects so that you can sort and filter by what matters most.
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4) Remediation guidance
Concrete fixes with references, configuration examples, and sequencing recommendations. We group work into logical change bundles to minimize disruption and simplify implementation across teams.
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5) Retest & closure
Validate fixes, update statuses, and provide clear evidence for auditors and internal stakeholders. Where issues remain open by design, we help you document accepted risk and compensating controls.
Deliverables
- Executive summary and risk narrative for leadership and non-technical stakeholders
- Validated technical report with evidence, reproduction steps, and screenshots/log excerpts
- Prioritized remediation tracker (CSV / Jira-ready) with owners, severity, and due dates
- Risk model description and SLA recommendations aligned to your environment
- Retest / validation report showing which items are resolved, partially mitigated, or accepted
- Optional mapping of key findings to frameworks (ISO 27001, SOC 2, CIS, etc.)
Sample finding format
- Title & severity
- Affected assets and environments (prod / staging / internal)
- Evidence & steps to reproduce
- Impact, exposure path, and potential attacker goals
- Recommended remediation and temporary mitigations (if any)
- References (CVE, vendor advisory, hardening guides, internal policies)
Typical timeline
| Phase | Duration | Activities |
|---|---|---|
| Discovery | 1–3 days | Scope, access, safe testing plan, stakeholder alignment, and data collection. |
| Scan & validate | 5–10 days | Scanning, targeted manual validation, impact analysis, and initial deduplication. |
| Reporting | 2–4 days | Findings documentation, risk model application, remediation tracker, and readout prep. |
| Retest | 2–5 days | Validation of fixes, status updates, and final evidence pack for closure. |
Pricing / Engagement model
Essentials
- External perimeter + key applications in scope
- Validated report & remediation tracker
- One retest for critical and high findings
- Ideal for smaller environments or first-time assessments
Growth
- External + internal + cloud / identity coverage
- Risk model, SLA policy suggestions, and stakeholder readout
- Two retests to support iterative remediation
- Best for organizations scaling security alongside product growth
Continuous
- Monthly or quarterly assessment cycles
- Delta tracking, trend reports, and regular PIRs
- Roadmap, backlog reviews, and exec readouts
- Suited for teams building a mature vulnerability management program
FAQs
Will assessments cause downtime?
We design testing to be as safe as possible. Smartfind coordinates windows, throttles activity, avoids destructive payloads, and aligns with your change management process. Where any higher-risk tests are required, we agree on them explicitly in advance.
Can you integrate with Jira?
Yes. We deliver a CSV or direct import structure mapping owners, priorities, components, and due dates. We can also help you design Jira workflows and dashboards so that remediation work is visible and trackable for both engineers and security.
Do you validate fixes?
Absolutely. Retests are included in all tiers to verify that remediation has been applied correctly. We clearly mark which items are fully fixed, partially mitigated, or still exposed, and update the tracker accordingly.
Will you help implement?
We can pair with your teams to review proposed changes, suggest safer implementation patterns, and advise on guardrails such as configuration baselines, hardening guides, and monitoring checks so fixes stay effective over time.
Ready to upgrade vulnerability management?
Email info@smartfind.systems or reach out via our contact form. Our team will help you scope the right assessment for your environment.
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