A Vulnerability Assessment Finds the Door You Propped Open
Scheduled scans and hands-on penetration testing that tell you where your firm is exposed, ranked in the order worth fixing. Written so a partner can read it and so whoever handles your IT knows what to do Monday morning.
Look Before Somebody Else Does
Every firm has findings. The useful question is which ones an attacker could actually reach, and what's sitting behind them when they get there.
Scans and Hands-On Testing
Automated scanning across networks, applications, and cloud accounts, plus people who go looking in the places a scanner won't.
Ranked by What Sits Behind It
Severity scores are a starting point. We weight findings by what an attacker would reach, because a critical on the guest printer isn't a critical.
A List in Fix Order
Findings come with steps, an owner, and a realistic date. A report with 200 items and no sequence gets filed and never opened again.
Clear, Prioritized Findings
The report ranks by real-world risk rather than by count. Every finding names the affected machines, explains what an attacker gets from it, and gives your team the steps. Two items get called critical, which is why the two critical items get read.
- CVSS severity scoring for every finding
- Step-by-step remediation instructions
- Trend tracking across assessments
Total Findings
24
Critical
2
High
5
Medium
17
What an Assessment Covers
Automated scanning for the known problems, people for the ones a scanner can't see, and an inventory of what you're even running.
Penetration Testing
We try what an attacker would try, inside a scope you approve, and write down honestly how far it got.
Scheduled Scanning
Networks, web apps, and endpoints scanned on a regular cadence, not once during onboarding and then never again.
CVSS Scoring With Context
Standard scoring adjusted for your environment, so the ranking reflects your firm rather than an average one.
Asset Discovery
An inventory of what's actually on the network. There's always something: the NAS from two office moves ago, the printer with its web interface facing the internet.
Quarterly Assessments
Every quarter, with trend lines. Vulnerabilities appear on their own as software ages, so a single clean report has a short shelf life.
Zero-Day Triage
When a serious vulnerability gets published, we check whether you're exposed and tell you either way, quickly.
Who It's For
Firms that will eventually be asked, by somebody, to show what they checked and when.
CPA Firms
Find the gaps that would expose taxpayer data before an IRS review, an insurer, or somebody worse finds them for you.
Multi-Office Practices
Consistent testing across every location and every remote worker, reported in one place.
Regulated Financial Services
Documented vulnerability management for SOC 2, GLBA, and state data protection requirements.
Outdated TLS 1.0 on mail server
Critical
Missing MFA on admin accounts
Critical
Unpatched firewall firmware
High
Weak password policy
High
Open RDP port on subnet
Medium
Track Fixes from Finding to Resolution
Each finding gets an owner and a date, and stays visible until it's closed. Auditors and insurers ask the same question, and it isn't whether you had vulnerabilities. It's what you did about the ones you already knew about.
- Assigned owners and deadlines
- Quarterly progress reporting
- Compliance-ready documentation
Frequently Asked Questions
How often should a firm do this?
Quarterly scans with an annual penetration test is a reasonable floor for a small firm. Add one after any significant change: a new server, an office move, a practice management migration. Continuous scanning runs in between the scheduled assessments.
What's the difference between a scan and a penetration test?
A scan compares what you're running against a list of known weaknesses. A penetration test is a person trying to chain those weaknesses into real access. The scan tells you the side door is propped open. The test tells you whether it leads anywhere worth walking.
Will testing knock something over?
We schedule scans outside working hours and use non-destructive methods. Penetration tests get scoped and coordinated with you in advance, and we stay off client-facing systems during filing season. Nobody wants a portal outage on April 14th.
How does this fit IRS compliance?
IRS Publication 4557 expects firms to assess risks regularly and deal with what they find. Assessments plus remediation tracking give you dated evidence of both. That record of what got fixed and when is worth more to an examiner than a clean report is.
What do we get at the end?
An executive summary in plain language, the full finding list with scores, a prioritized remediation plan, a comparison against your previous assessments, and mapping to IRS Publication 4557 and SOC 2. The summary is written for partners, not for engineers.