Vulnerability Assessment / Scanning Service

The Department of the Premier and Cabinet (DPC) is seeking a Vulnerability Assessment/Scanning Solution to assist Western Australian Government agencies to scan and assess their networks for vulnerabilities and prioritise remediation actions.

This should allow the optimisation of security resources to mitigate potential threats and implement better defences against known attackers. Additionally, this service will assist in further improving the cyber security posture, threat intelligence and incident response capabilities across the entire public sector.

Currently agencies are responsible for procuring, deploying and ongoing maintenance of their own Vulnerability Assessment/Scanning services and their individual capability and maturity in this area varies greatly.

Exploitation of vulnerabilities is one of the primary attack vectors used by malicious actors and DPC is seeking to provide a means by which agencies can benefit from the deployment of a centralised solution.

In addition, DPC is seeking to achieve reduction in the total cost to Government by achieving economies of scale from the establishment of a central solution with the ability to gain centralised visibility, but with the capability for each agency to be provided with access to their own results.