Vulnerability Assessment Service

It’s no secret that profit motivated attacks on business operations are growing. Or that increased connectivity and the problems of securing complex application and infrastructure environments are creating new vulnerabilities.

The first step in providing effective protection is to understand your exposure to risk and its potential impact through a vulnerability assessment. Telstra’s Vulnerability Assessment Service helps you achieve this vital goal through accurate scanning. The service can also assist you to meet compliance and governance requirements.

The Vulnerability Assessment Service offers Vulnerability Discovery, a scan of infrastructure and a report detailing detected exposures, and two value added options, exposure analysis and exposure remediation

Benefits of Telstra’s Vulnerability Assessment Service

Greater insight into exposure
Comprehensive scanning of infrastructure identifies exposure to threats

Prioritise vulnerabilities
Optional exposure analysis from Telstra’s consulting services assigns a risk rating to exposures based on the asset and the vulnerability detected

Control and track remediation measures
Optional exposure remediation from Telstra’s consulting services assists you to assign ownership for remediation actions and track them to resolution

Enhance security
Improved visibility of risk helps you take appropriate action to improve protection for business assets

Improve compliance
Detailed reports assist you to meet compliance and governance requirements

Improve auditing
Vulnerability scanning provides you with data for accurate infrastructure audits

Lower total cost of ownership
Ensure security measures match your risk profile to gain maximum value from your security investment

Simpler and more convenient
A single point of contact for all security services means you don’t have to spend extra time managing third party consultants. For existing customers, you can also leverage Telstra’s existing relationship and knowledge of your business

Experience the Telstra difference

Telstra offers a unique visibility into network activity through its ownership of its own  core network and its world-leading monitoring facilities:

• The Global Operations Centre - monitors Telstra core infrastructure
• The Managed Network Operations Centre - monitors customer networks
• Telstra Security Operations Centre - proactively gathers telemetry from all layers and devices in our networks

Add to this our relationships with vendors such as Cisco and Microsoft, and our ongoing research. These combined capabilities enable us to analyse the global threat landscape and compare known risks with your level of exposure.

In addition, Telstra has one of the largest groups of security professionals in the country. They can apply their experience in consulting, designing and managing real-world security for high profile organisations to assist you with exposure analysis and remediation.

The Vulnerability Assessment service offers:

Vulnerability discovery

• External assessment: Scanning occurs outside the customer network to identify vulnerabilities that can be exploited from the internet
• Internal assessment: Scanning occurs inside the customer network to identify risks within that network. This option requires the deployment of a scanning device in the customer network
• A choice of scanning schedules: The scans can be a one-off service or scheduled at regular intervals to meet individual requirements, such as weekly, monthly, biannually

Two value-added options are also available from Telstra Consulting Services:

• Exposure analysis: Assigns a rating to different exposures based on the asset and the vulnerability detected (this requires you to provide details of assets and their business importance)
• Exposure remediation: Assists you to assign ownership for remediation actions and track them to resolution