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 Duration 28 hours

Course Outline

Overview of Nessus Interface and Navigation

  1. Installing Nessus Server and License
  2. Checking and updating plugins
  3. Scanning Windows environments
  4. Utilizing preloaded scan profiles
  5. Review of preinstalled configuration standards
  6. Interface navigation and exploration
  7. Configuring notifications

Scanning Processes:

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

Interpreting Nessus Output:

  1. Analyzing Nessus output files
  2. Understanding risk rating and scoring mechanisms
  3. Filtering irrelevant data to reduce output volume
  4. Validating identified findings
  5. Generating and interpreting Nessus reports

In-Depth Plugin Review:

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

Requirements

Familiarity with common network protocols such as HTTP, HTTPS, SSH, SSL, Telnet, and SFTP is required.

A fundamental understanding of the OSI model layers.

Basic knowledge of IP addressing concepts.

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