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Overview of the Nessus Interface and Navigation

  1. Installation of Nessus Server and licensing
  2. Verifying plugin status and updating plugins
  3. Scanning Windows environments
  4. Leveraging preloaded scan profiles
  5. Reviewing preinstalled configuration standards
  6. Navigating the user interface
  7. Configuring notifications

Executing Scans:

  1. Performing basic scans
  2. Initiating scans using predefined templates
  3. Developing custom templates from preloaded plugins
  4. Conducting asset discovery scans

Interpreting Nessus Output:

  1. Analyzing the Nessus output file structure
  2. Understanding risk ratings and scoring mechanisms
  3. Filtering irrelevant data to streamline reports
  4. Validating detected findings
  5. Generating Nessus reports

In-Depth Plugin Analysis:

  1. Plugins for data discovery
  2. System-specific plugins
  3. Compliance-focused plugins

Requirements

Familiarity with common network protocols such as HTTP, HTTPS, SSH, SSL, Telnet, and SFTP

An understanding of the OSI model layers

Basic knowledge of IP addressing

 28 Hours

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