Introducing the Nexpose Vulnerabilities scanner

In this section, we review the Nexpose Vulnerabilities scanner, which gives you reporting tools for the main vulnerabilities we can find in servers and web applications.

Installing the Nexpose Vulnerabilities scanner

Nexpose is a vulnerability scanner with a similar approach to nessus, since in addition to allowing us to run scans against multiple machines on the network, it also has a plugin system and an API that allows the integration of external code routines with the engine.

NeXpose is a tool developed by Rapid7 for the scanning and discovery of vulnerabilities. There is a community version that can be used for non-commercial purposes and although it has limitations, we...