Nessus Manager Training Course

The Nessus vulnerability scanner is a very versatile platform for detecting and managing vulnerabilities. They can even do so much more than vulnerability detection. They can also do baseline auditing. In which case you system configuration is being compared with the best hardening standard

In this Instructor led course, we will introduce the components of the solution and the different t functionalities, each module in the application will be explained and its use case laid out.

At the end of the course, participants will be able to carry out vulnerability (authenticated and unauthenticated) scans on almost all IP based systems and analyze the results of the scan to eliminate false positives. The participants will learn to carry out risk based prioritization of findings and recommend compensating controls. This course will help the participants determine the security posture of their systems using Nessus and decide on the best course of action for remediation.

Audience:

• Infrastructure managers
• System administrators
• System Auditors
• System compliance officers
• vulnerability managers
• cybersecurity managers

Format:

Part Lecture, part discussion and hands on practice