The vulnerability scan is utilised on two steps of the Cyber Essentials Plus certification process (scans are not used as part of the Cyber Essentials certification process, which relies on a self-assessment questionnaire).
Initially, vulnerability scans are used to assess all the external-facing devices used in the infrastructure (firewalls, routers, servers, services etc.) and then later on the internal vulnerability scan to assess the sampled endpoints.
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