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Course Outline

Introduction to the Nessus Interface and Navigation

  1. Installation of Nessus Server and License Activation
  2. Reviewing and updating plugin sets
  3. Scanning Windows environments
  4. Leveraging preloaded scan profiles
  5. Overview of preinstalled configuration standards
  6. Navigating the user interface
  7. Configuring notification settings

Executing Scans:

  1. Performing basic scans
  2. Running scans using predefined templates
  3. Building templates from preloaded plugins
  4. Conducting asset discovery scans

Interpreting Nessus Output:

  1. Analyzing Nessus output files
  2. Understanding risk ratings and scoring mechanisms
  3. Filtering noise to reduce report size
  4. Validating scan findings
  5. Generating Nessus reports

In-Depth Plugin Analysis:

  1. Exploring data discovery plugins
  2. Reviewing system-specific plugins
  3. Examining compliance-related plugins

Requirements

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

Foundational understanding of the OSI model

Basic knowledge of IP addressing

 28 Hours

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