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Overview of 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. Running scans from predefined templates
  3. Creating templates from preloaded plugins
  4. Asset discovery scans

Understanding Nessus Output:

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

Detailed Review of Plugins:

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

Requirements

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

Basic understanding of OSI layers

Basic knowledge of IP addressing

 28 Hours

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