Now we are going to setup our first scan with Nessus. Upon successful credentials, you will be directed to the Nessus Vulnerability scanner’s dashboard where you will be able to manage your scan jobs. Now wait for a while until Nessus initializing process complete.Īfter completing the download and initializing process, you will see the login page of Nessus where you will login with your previously created user account. Let’s create your account and you get the code in your email that you have to put here as shown in the below image and then click on ‘Continue’ button. Registering this scanner will grant you access to download these plugins. These plugins contain vulnerability information, algorithms to test for the presence of the issue, and a set of remediation actions. Tenable’s research staff releases plugins that enable Nessus to detect their presence. Therefore, it should be noted that this user has the same privileges as the “root” (or administrator) user on remote hosts.
Since this user can change the scanner configuration, it also has the ability to execute commands on remote hosts. Let’s connect to your server using root user credentials and run below commands to update your system. The installation is very fast and easy that don’t need you to be a Linux expert to install Nessus. In this article we are going to show you installation, configuration and usage of Nessus Vulnerability Scanner on CentOS 7 and Ubuntu 15.10/15.04. It does this by running over 1200 checks on a given computer, testing to see if any of these attacks could be used to break into the computer or otherwise harm it. Nessus is an Open Source remote security scanning tool, which scans a computer and raises an alert if it discovers any vulnerabilities that malicious hackers could use to gain access to any computer you have connected to a network. It is not a complete security solution, rather it is one small part of a good security strategy. Hello friends, if you are an administrator in charge of any computer (or group of computers) connected to the Internet, then Nessus is a great tool to help keep your domains free from the vulnerabilities that hackers and viruses commonly look to exploit.
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