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Overview of the Nessus Interface and Navigation

  1. Installing Nessus Server and License
  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. Executing 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 size
  4. Validating findings
  5. Generating Nessus reports

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, and SFTP.

Fundamental understanding of OSI layers.

Basic knowledge of IP addressing.

 28 Hours

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