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Overview of Nessus Interface and Navigation

  1. Installing Nessus Server and configuring the license
  2. Checking and updating plugins
  3. Scanning Windows environments
  4. Utilizing preloaded scan profiles
  5. Exploring preinstalled configuration standards
  6. Navigating the user interface
  7. Setting up notifications

Scanning:

  1. Executing simple scans
  2. Conducting scans using predefined templates
  3. Creating custom templates from preloaded plugins
  4. Performing asset discovery scans

Understanding Nessus Output:

  1. Interpreting Nessus output files
  2. Grasping risk ratings and scoring mechanisms
  3. Filtering out irrelevant data and optimizing output
  4. Validating findings
  5. Generating Nessus reports

Detailed Review of Plugins:

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

Requirements

Foundational knowledge of common protocols such as HTTP, HTTPS, SSH, SSL, Telnet, and SFTP.

Basic understanding of OSI model layers.

Basic knowledge of IP addressing.

 28 Hours

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