Understanding Nessus outputs

Nessus is more of an enterprise-aligned tool. The reporting is more comprehensive and user-friendly. Nessus provides document and structure-based reporting. These reports can be exported by selecting the format required in the Export drop-down in the top-right corner of the Scans result page:

Here, we will go over the reporting formats that are supported by Nessus.

Nessus

This format allows the user to import the results in .nessus format. This is a format that can only be parsed using Nessus. It allows users to download the scan results and later import the same into Nessus for any type of analysis to be performed.

HTML

Nessus provides a good illustration of the scan reports in a HTML file format which is standalone and can be opened in any browser to view the results. This report also allows for the navigation between different sections so that users can easily read huge reports. These HTML reports can also be customized to download the following reports:

• Executive...