Annual penetration testing is essential, but your environment changes daily. Continuous Vulnerability Management provides ongoing visibility into vulnerabilities, cloud misconfigurations, and new assets that appear between tests.
ISO 27001, PCI DSS, and Cyber Essentials all require ongoing vulnerability management – not just annual testing. CVM delivers the continuous scanning evidence auditors and cyber insurers demand.
Modern breaches happen through unpatched vulnerabilities and cloud misconfigurations. CVM discovers both automatically, surfaces shadow IT, and ensures your assets are continuously monitored for known exposures.
Blackfoot’s Continuous Vulnerability Management combines automated attack surface discovery with expert-managed vulnerability assessment across your entire technology estate – delivered through the same Sentry platform used for your penetration tests.
Continuous Vulnerability Management is an expert-managed service that continuously discovers, assesses, and monitors your attack surface for security exposures across your entire technology estate.
Unlike self-service vulnerability platforms that require you to configure, operate, and interpret results, CVM is managed by CREST-accredited security consultants who operate the infrastructure and make sure scans are tailored to your environment.
The service combines five capabilities in a single subscription:
CVM follows Gartner’s Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) framework, delivering the first three stages – scoping, discovery and prioritisation. When combined with annual penetration testing (the validation stage), and our Sentry platform (the mobilisation stage) you get complete CTEM delivery from a single provider who understands your environment.
Blackfoot’s Continuous Vulnerability Management service enables you to proactively identify and address exposures before they are exploited.
By identifying vulnerabilities and misconfigurations in your infrastructure, applications, and cloud platforms, you can take the necessary steps to strengthen your security posture and protect your critical assets.
Automated attack surface discovery
CVM continuously monitors your external footprint for new assets and infrastructure changes. This automated discovery identifies shadow IT, forgotten test servers, and newly deployed services – ensuring your vulnerability scanning covers everything that’s actually exposed, not just assets in your inventory.
Multi-domain vulnerability scanning
Using industry-standard scanning technologies, CVM assesses multiple domains: external infrastructure, internal infrastructure, web applications and APIs, and cloud platforms. Scans run on a monthly cadence by default, with configurable frequency for higher-risk assets or compliance requirements.
Cloud security posture assessment
Ongoing configuration checks across your cloud accounts identify misconfigurations before they become breaches. This includes IAM role permissions, storage bucket access controls, logging and monitoring configurations, encryption settings, and security group rules.
Expert triage and prioritisation
Rather than presenting raw scan output, our Sentry platform aggregates and correlates findings, and our CREST-accredited consultants are on hand to support with findings triage and false positives. You receive actionable results through the Sentry platform, not overwhelming lists of vulnerabilities.
Continuous monitoring and trending
Results appear in Sentry in real-time, with trend analysis showing what’s new, what’s been fixed, and what’s persisting. Dashboards track remediation progress, and notifications alert your team when critical exposures are discovered.
Integration with penetration testing
Because CVM is managed by the same team who conduct your annual penetration tests, findings feed directly into pentest scoping. When automated scanning identifies something that needs deeper validation, there’s a direct escalation path to expert penetration testers.
Compliance-aligned reporting
Generate audit-ready reports showing monthly scanning evidence, remediation trends, and compliance posture. Reports align with ISO 27001, PCI DSS, Cyber Essentials, and cyber insurance requirements, demonstrating ongoing vulnerability management between penetration tests.
CVM is delivered as a managed service – we operate the infrastructure, you focus on remediation. No agents to deploy, no infrastructure to maintain, no tool administration overhead.
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