Nessus is one of the most powerful and comprehensive vulnerability scanners available. By targeting a system or group of systems, it will automatically scan for a large range of vulnerabilities on all identifiable services. Once scan policies have been configured to define the configurations for the Nessus scanner, the scan policy can be used to execute scans on remote targets for evaluation. This recipe will explain how to perform vulnerability scanning with Nessus.
Vulnerability scanning with Nessus
Getting ready
To configure scan policies in Nessus, one must first have a functional copy of Nessus installed on the Kali Linux penetration-testing platform. Because Nessus is a licensed product, it does not come installed by default in Kali. For more information on...