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 Duration 28 hours

Course Outline

Overview of the Nessus Interface and Navigation

  1. Installing the Nessus Server and License
  2. Checking for plugin updates and managing them
  3. Scanning Windows environments
  4. Leveraging preloaded scan profiles
  5. Reviewing preinstalled configuration standards
  6. Navigating the user interface
  7. Configuring notifications

Scanning:

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

Understanding Nessus Output:

  1. Analyzing Nessus output files
  2. Interpreting 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

Familiarity with common protocols such as HTTP, HTTPS, SSH, SSL, Telnet, and SFTP

Foundational understanding of the OSI model layers

Basic knowledge of IP addressing

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