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Vulnerability Assessment with Nessus

( Duration: 3 Days )

This Nessus training course provides an introduction to vulnerability assessment and penetration testing before moving on to show you the steps needed to install Nessus on Windows and Linux platforms. Also learn to perform VA/PT effectively using Nessus to secure your IT infrastructure and to meet compliance requirements in an effective and efficient manner.

By attending Nessus workshop, delegates will learn:

  • About the various administrative options available in Nessus such as how to create a new user. You will also learn about important concepts like how to analyze results to remove false positives and criticality. At the end, you will also be introduced to the compliance check feature of Nessus and given an insight into how it is different from regular vulnerability scanning.

COURSE AGENDA

1

Fundamentals

  • Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing
  • Need for Vulnerability Assessment
  • The life cycles of Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing
  • Introduction to Nessus
  • Introduction Nessus setup
  • Scheduling scans
  • The Nessus plugin
  • Patch management using Nessus
  • Governance, risk, and compliance checks
  • Installing Nessus on different platforms
  • Prerequisites
  • Instaling Nessus on Windows
  • Instaling Nessus on Linux
  • Definition update
  • Online plugin updates
  • Offline plugin updates
  • User management
  • Nessus system configuration
2

Scanning

  • Scan prerequisites
  • Scan-based target system admin credentials
  • Direct connectivity without a firewall
  • Scanning window to be agreed upon
  • Scanning approvals and related paper work
  • Backup of all systems including data and configuration
  • Updating Nessus plugins
  • Creating a scan policy as per target system OS and information
  • Configuring a scan policy to check for an
  • Gathering information of target systems
  • Sufficient network bandwidth to run the scan
  • Target system support staff
  • Policy configuration
  • New policy creation
  • Scan configuration
  • Configuring a new scan
  • Scan execution and results
3

Scan Analysis

  • Result analysis
  • False positive analysis
  • Vulnerability analysis
  • Vulnerability exploiting
4

Reporting Options

  • Vulnerability Assessment report
  • Nessus report generation
  • Nessus report content
  • Report customization
  • Report automation
5

Compliance Checks

  • Audit policies
  • Compliance reporting
  • Auditing infrastructure
  • Windows compliance check
  • Windows File Content
  • Unix compliance check
  • Cisco IOS compliance checks
  • Database compliance checks
  • PCI DSS compliance
  • VMware vCenter/vSphere Compliance Check

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  • Get jumpstarted from newbie to production ready in a matter of few days
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  • All our trainings are conducted in workshop mode with more focus on hands-on sessions

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