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Overview of Nessus Interface and Navigation

  1. Installing the Nessus Server and managing licenses
  2. Reviewing 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. Executing simple scans
  2. Running scans from predefined templates
  3. Creating templates from preloaded plugins
  4. Conducting asset discovery scans

Understanding Nessus Output:

  1. Interpreting Nessus output files
  2. Grasping 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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