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Course Outline

Overview of Nessus Interface and Navigation

  1. Installing Nessus Server and activating the license
  2. Checking and updating plugins
  3. Scanning Windows environments
  4. Using preloaded scan profiles
  5. Walkthrough of preinstalled configuration standards
  6. Navigating the interface
  7. Setting up notifications

Scanning:

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

Understanding Nessus Output:

  1. Interpreting the Nessus output file
  2. Understanding risk ratings and scoring
  3. Eliminating unnecessary 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 knowledge of common protocols such as HTTP, HTTPS, SSH, SSL, Telnet, and SFTP.

Foundational understanding of the OSI layers.

Basic knowledge of IP addressing.

 28 Hours

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