Working with Nessus

Nessus is one of the most popular vulnerability scanners within the cybersecurity industry. It enables system administrators, cybersecurity professionals, and compliance auditors to identify whether a targeted system contains any known security weaknesses and meets various regulatory standards in the industry. Additionally, Nessus can be deployed on a centralized server and configured to perform regular vulnerability scans on targeted systems using its automation capabilities, hence enabling ethical hackers to easily perform a gap analysis between vulnerability assessments to determine whether the security team of an organization is implementing countermeasures to mitigate and prevent potential cyber-attacks.

As an aspiring ethical hacker and penetration tester, it’s essential to gain hands-on experience in setting up Nessus and performing vulnerability scans and assessments on a targeted system. To get started with setting up Nessus, please use the following...