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Overview of the Nessus Interface and Navigation

  1. Installing the 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 interface
  7. Configuring notifications

Scanning:

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

Understanding Nessus Output:

  1. Analyzing the Nessus output file
  2. Understanding risk ratings and scoring mechanisms
  3. Filtering out irrelevant data to streamline 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 the OSI model layers.

Basic knowledge of IP addressing.

 28 Hours

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