Nessus Manager Training Course
The Nessus vulnerability scanner is a very versatile platform for detecting and managing vulnerabilities. They can even do so much more than vulnerability detection. They can also do baseline auditing. In which case you system configuration is being compared with the best hardening standard
In this Instructor led course, we will introduce the components of the solution and the different t functionalities, each module in the application will be explained and its use case laid out.
At the end of the course, participants will be able to carry out vulnerability (authenticated and unauthenticated) scans on almost all IP based systems and analyze the results of the scan to eliminate false positives. The participants will learn to carry out risk based prioritization of findings and recommend compensating controls. This course will help the participants determine the security posture of their systems using Nessus and decide on the best course of action for remediation.
Audience:
- Infrastructure managers
- System administrators
- System Auditors
- System compliance officers
- vulnerability managers
- cybersecurity managers
Format:
Part Lecture, part discussion and hands on practice
This course is available as onsite live training in Macao or online live training.Course Outline
Overview of Nessus Interface and navigations
- Installing Nessus Server and License
- Checking plugins and updating plugins
- Scanning windows
- Using preloaded scan profiles
- Walk through of preinstalled configuration standards
- Navigating the interface
- Setting up notification
Scanning:
- Running simple scans
- Running scans from predefined templates
- Creating templates from preloaded plugins
- Asset discovery scans
Understanding Nessus output:
- Understanding Nessus output file
- Understanding risk rating and scoring
- Eliminating useless data and reducing output
- Validating findings
- Nessus reporting
Detailed review of Plugins:
- Data discovery plugins
- System specific plugins
- Compliance plugins
Requirements
Basic Knowledge of common protocols such as HTTP,HTTPS, SSH, SSL, Telnet SFTP etc
Basic knowledge of the OSI layers
Basic knowledge of IP addressing
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Testimonials (2)
I generally was benefit from the whole training.
Tassos Papadopoulos
Course - Nessus Manager
The course build up the whole picture and helped me understand in depth how to deal with everyday tasks I perform with Tenable Census Manager.
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Course - Nessus Manager
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