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Overview of the Nessus Interface and Navigation

  1. Installing the Nessus Server and activating the licence
  2. Checking and updating plugins
  3. Scanning Windows systems
  4. Using preloaded scan profiles
  5. Walkthrough of preinstalled configuration standards
  6. Navigating the interface
  7. Setting up notifications

Scanning:

  1. Running simple scans
  2. Running scans from predefined templates
  3. Creating templates from preloaded plugins
  4. Asset discovery scans

Understanding Nessus Output:

  1. Interpreting Nessus output files
  2. Understanding risk ratings and scoring
  3. Eliminating irrelevant data and reducing output volume
  4. Validating findings
  5. Nessus reporting

Detailed Review of Plugins:

  1. Data discovery plugins
  2. System-specific plugins
  3. Compliance plugins

Requirements

Basic knowledge of common protocols such as HTTP, HTTPS, SSH, SSL, Telnet, SFTP, etc.

Basic understanding of the OSI model layers

Basic knowledge of IP addressing

 28 Hours

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