How to manage Nessus settings

We have already learned a great deal about Nessus settings in Chapter 2, Understanding Network Scanning Tools. For a quick recap, in the Nessus settings, we can look at various options available in Nessus. The Nessus settings consist of About, Advanced, Proxy Server, SMTP Server, Custom CA, and Password Mgmt. These menus have further subsettings, which have specific purposes. We will see what can be configured using each menu in the How to do it... section.

Getting ready

This section is the same as the Getting ready section of the How to manage Nessus policies recipe.

How to do it…

Perform the following steps:

1. Open the Nessus Web Client.
2. Log in to the Nessus client with the user that you created during installation.
3. Navigate to the settings screen by clicking on the Settings option on the home screen, which directly displays options under the About menu:

4. Manage the software update settings by navigating to the Software Update menu and select the frequency and the type...