Nessus is one of the most common and easy-to-use vulnerability scanners developed by Tenable. This vulnerability scanner is generally used to perform vulnerability assessment on the network, and Tenable Research has published 138,005 plugins, covering 53,957 CVE IDs and 30,392 Bugtraq IDs. A vast collection of Nessus scripts (NASL) helps the tester to broaden their reach to find vulnerabilities. Some of the features of Nessus are as follows:
- Vulnerability scanning (network, web, cloud, and so on)
- Asset discovery
- Configuration auditing (MDM, network, and so on)
- Target profiling
- Malware detection
- Sensitive data discovery
- Patch auditing and management
- Policy compliance auditing
Nessus can be downloaded from https://www.tenable.com/downloads/nessus. Once the installation is complete, we have to activate the tool. The activation can be completed with a code...