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 Duration 28 hours

Course Outline

Overview of the 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. Review of preinstalled configuration standards
  6. Navigating the user interface
  7. Setting up notifications

Scanning:

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

Understanding Nessus Output:

  1. Interpreting Nessus output files
  2. Understanding risk ratings and scoring
  3. Filtering irrelevant data to reduce output volume
  4. Validating findings
  5. Generating Nessus reports

Detailed Review of Plugins:

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

Requirements

Basic understanding of common protocols such as HTTP, HTTPS, SSH, SSL, Telnet, and SFTP

Basic knowledge of OSI model layers

Basic understanding of IP addressing

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