You may access the Nessus console from any computer with a web browser that has network connectivity to the Nessus Manager. In this video, learn how to access the Nessus console.
- [Instructor] Once you have Nessus Manager installed … on your server, you can access it from a web browser … on any system where network access … is allowed to that server. … I'm back here on my laptop and I'm going to access … the Nessus server by typing in https://, … the IP address of my server, followed by a colon … and then the port number, … 8834, the standard port for Nessus. … When I first try to access the Nessus Manager, … I get an error because the TLS Certificate … used on the server was not issued by a … trusted certificate authority. … In a production deployment of Nessus, … you'd want to obtain a certificate by either purchasing it … from a public certificate authority … or creating one on your own internal certificate authority. … For our purposes, this isn't very important. … So I'm going to go ahead and accept the error. … I need to provide my password to make this change. … And then I'm presented with a start-up screen for Nessus. … Nessus is now going to walk me through …
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10/3/2019Released
3/8/2019- Setting up Nessus on Linux and Windows
- Identifying scan targets and frequency
- Configuring vulnerability scans
- Reporting scan results
- Overcoming barriers to vulnerability remediation
Skill Level Intermediate
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Introduction
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1. Setting Up Nessus
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Nessus editions1m 32s
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2. Creating a Vulnerability Management Program
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Identify scan targets5m 50s
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Scan frequency5m 6s
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3. Configuring and Executing Vulnerability Scans
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Scan configuration6m 16s
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Scan perspective5m 3s
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Scanner maintenance3m 19s
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Vulnerability Scanning Tools1m 37s
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4. Remediating Vulnerabilities
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Report scan results4m 43s
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Prioritize remediation3m 46s
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5. Analyzing Scan Results
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SCAP2m 34s
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CVSS2m 48s
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Interpreting CVSS scores3m 22s
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Analyzing scan reports3m 59s
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Correlating scan results2m 33s
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6. Common Vulnerabilities
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Server vulnerabilities5m 18s
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Endpoint vulnerabilities1m 44s
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Network vulnerabilities4m 29s
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Industrial control systems4m 36s
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Preventing SQL injection5m 29s
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Conclusion
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Next steps30s
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