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When you need it
The situations that bring teams to this engagement, and where it fits alongside the rest of your program.
Definitions
Three products that get sold under each other’s names. Paying for the wrong one is the most common mistake we see, so here is the honest comparison.
Vulnerability scan
Vulnerability assessment
Penetration test
A vulnerability assessment does not replace a penetration test for PCI DSS Requirement 11.4, NYDFS 500.5, or a SOC 2 auditor who asked for a pentest. It is the evidence for the vulnerability management process those same frameworks also require. Our guide to penetration testing vs vulnerability scanning goes deeper.
What we look for
The scanner produces candidates. The analyst turns them into an assessment: confirmed, deduplicated, ranked, and explained, so your team fixes real risk in the right order.
The vulnerabilities in software and systems that attackers exploit first, and the ones that scanners are best at surfacing.
We test for
Insecure settings across hosts, services, and cloud resources that widen exposure without any missing patch.
We test for
Default or guessable access sitting on reachable services.
We test for
The storage, identity, and network settings in AWS, Azure, or GCP that a scanner reads from the control plane.
We test for
The known-pattern issues in a web application that automated testing can reach, validated by hand.
We test for
The analyst work that turns raw output into an assessment.
We test for
Cadence
A single assessment of a defined scope before a first penetration test, an audit, or a cyber-insurance application. You learn what the estate looks like from outside before anyone decides what to test by hand.
The cadence PCI DSS and most auditors expect. Each assessment is benchmarked against the last, with trend reporting that shows remediation velocity improving.
After a patch cycle, a migration, or a merger, an assessment confirms the fixes landed and nothing new arrived, ahead of the free retest that closes a penetration test.
Recurring assessments are priced as a fixed annual figure and combine with manual testing windows in a penetration testing as a service program.
The report
Coverage
The internet-facing perimeter: exposed services, outdated appliances, TLS weaknesses, and forgotten hosts. Pair it with an external penetration test when you need proof of exploitation.
Servers, workstations, and network devices behind the firewall, scanned with credentials so the missing patches and local misconfigurations are visible. The baseline before an internal penetration test.
AWS, Azure, or GCP configuration read from the control plane: storage, identities, network rules, and logging, benchmarked against the CIS foundations.
Authenticated application scanning validated by an analyst, for the known-pattern issues a web application penetration test then goes beyond.
Methodology
Every engagement follows the Penetration Testing Execution Standard and the relevant OWASP guides.
These are the phases your vulnerability assessment runs through.
Ranges, hosts, and authenticated versus unauthenticated coverage agreed.
Tuned scans run internally and externally on the agreed cadence.
Analysts confirm findings and remove false positives before anything reaches you.
Findings ranked by exploitability and exposure, not by raw scanner score.
Prioritized list, ticketing integration, and trend reporting over time.
How it works
From scope through the final retest, your team stays in the loop at every step, with findings tracked live in our platform.
Define the scope
External perimeter, internal network, cloud account, or application. One assessment covers one defined scope at a flat $1,500.
Scan, tuned
Authenticated and unauthenticated scanning with engines chosen for the target and tuned so the results mean something for your environment.
Validate by hand
An analyst confirms every finding that matters, removes the false positives, and deduplicates across hosts.
Rank and explain
Findings are ranked by real risk, with exploitability notes and the business context that decides the order of fixes.
Report and verify
A prioritized report with remediation guidance, then a verification scan of the fixes and, on a cadence, trend reporting across assessments.
Compliance
Most frameworks ask for an ongoing vulnerability management process alongside the periodic penetration test. This is the evidence for the first half.
Proof
Every engagement is confidential, so the work below is anonymized to sector and engagement type. The findings and outcomes are real.
Free
Retest on every penetration test
150+
Years combined experience
13
Senior in-house specialists
24h
Onboarding after signing
Fintech · Payments
Post-Incident Web App Assessment
Excessive data exposure: API responses leaked transaction metadata, including precise geolocation, enabling real-world tracking of users.
Outcome. Surfaced the exposure and hardening gaps, prioritized by how readily an attacker could chain them, and delivered fixes plus a retest to confirm closure.
8
Findings
3
Medium
Post-incident
Engagement
Fintech · Payments
Web Application Penetration Test
Critical: a remote code execution flaw in the application’s web framework that could have given an attacker full control of the server. We escalated it to the development team while the test was still running.
Outcome. The critical RCE was reported and remediated during the engagement via an emergency framework upgrade, which also closed the server-side request forgery, and the remaining findings were retested to confirmation.
1
Critical (RCE)
Mid-test
Critical remediated
2
High
Resources
Penetration Testing vs Vulnerability Scanning: Which One Do You Need?
Penetration testing vs vulnerability scanning vs vulnerability assessment: what each finds, which frameworks require which, what each costs, when you need both.
Network Vulnerability Assessment Checklist: 30 Checks Before, During, and After the Scan
A network vulnerability assessment checklist: scoping, discovery, authenticated scanning, validation, prioritization, reporting, and the steps teams skip.
Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing (VAPT)
What VAPT means, how vulnerability assessment differs from penetration testing, when you need each, what a combined engagement covers, and what it costs.
Want to see a real report first?
Request a redacted sample report before you scope an engagement, or read what a penetration testing report should contain.
FAQ
What teams most often ask before
scoping vulnerability assessment services.
A systematic review of a defined scope, such as your external perimeter, internal network, cloud account, or web application, that identifies known vulnerabilities and misconfigurations, validates them, and ranks them by real risk. The scanning is automated; the validation, deduplication, and ranking are done by an analyst, which is what separates an assessment from a raw scan. It is the standard evidence for the vulnerability management process most compliance frameworks require.
An assessment finds and ranks known weaknesses across a scope; a penetration test proves what an attacker can do with them, by exploiting and chaining them by hand and by finding the business-logic flaws no scanner can see. Assessments are broad, repeatable, and priced at $1,500 per scope. Penetration tests are deep, periodic, and priced from $4,000 by target. Most organizations need both: assessments on a cadence, a penetration test annually and after significant change.
The analyst. A scan is the raw output of the tool: every candidate finding, including the false positives and the duplicates across hosts. An assessment is that output validated, deduplicated, ranked by risk with business context, and explained, so your team spends remediation time on what is real. We sell both, at the same flat price, because the scan is where the assessment starts.
A vulnerability assessment is $1,500 flat for a defined scope, internal or external, authenticated or unauthenticated, with false positives removed and findings ranked by risk. Recurring quarterly or monthly programs are priced as a fixed annual figure. Starting prices for every service are on our pricing page.
Quarterly is the cadence PCI DSS requires for scans and most SOC 2 and ISO 27001 auditors expect for vulnerability management evidence. Environments that change constantly run monthly. Everyone should run one after a major patch cycle, a migration, or a merger, and before the retest that closes a penetration test.
It satisfies the vulnerability management half of each: PCI DSS Requirement 11.3.1 internal scans, the SOC 2 CC7.1 expectation of ongoing vulnerability identification, and the NYDFS 500.5(a)(2) automated scans and manual review. It does not replace the penetration test those frameworks also require, and PCI DSS external scans under 11.3.2 must be run by an Approved Scanning Vendor, which we are not; we run the pre-ASV assessment that gets you a clean ASV result the first time.
Yes. Invadel is headquartered in Manhattan and runs assessments for New York financial firms under NYDFS 23 NYCRR 500, healthcare organizations under HIPAA, and SaaS companies preparing for SOC 2, as well as clients nationwide. Assessments are delivered remotely, so location changes nothing about the price.
The scope: IP ranges or hostnames for a network assessment, read-only credentials for an authenticated host or cloud assessment, and a test account for an application assessment. We confirm the scope and the flat price in writing from those details before anything runs, no sales call required.
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