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 Duration 28 hours

Course Outline

Overview of Nessus Interface and navigation

  1. Installation of the Nessus Server and license activation
  2. Verifying and updating plugin libraries
  3. Scanning Windows environments
  4. Leveraging preloaded scan profiles
  5. Review of preinstalled configuration standards
  6. Navigating the user interface
  7. Configuring notification settings

Scanning:

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

Understanding Nessus output:

  1. Interpreting Nessus output files
  2. Comprehending risk ratings and scoring mechanisms
  3. Filtering irrelevant data to streamline output
  4. Validating identified findings
  5. Generating Nessus reports

Detailed review of Plugins:

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

Requirements

Familiarity with common network protocols, including HTTP, HTTPS, SSH, SSL, Telnet, and SFTP

Foundational understanding of the OSI model layers

Basic knowledge of IP addressing schemes

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