Fix the flaws in your network before attackers can find them. Learn how to use Nessus, the network automated vulnerability scanner, to detect and resolve system vulnerabilities.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Managing vulnerabilities with Nessus
- What you need to know
- Nessus editions
- Installing Nessus Manager on Linux
- Installing Nessus Manager on Windows
- Accessing the Nessus console
- What is vulnerability management?
- Identify scan targets
- Scan frequency
- Scan configuration
- Scan perspective
- Scanner maintenance
- Report scan results
- Prioritize remediation
- Create a remediation workflow
- Barriers to vulnerability remediation
- SCAP
- CVSS
- Interpreting CVSS scores
- Analyzing scan reports
- Correlating scan results
- Server vulnerabilities
- Endpoint vulnerabilities
- Network vulnerabilities
- Preventing SQL injection
- Understanding cross-site scripting
- Request forgery
- Overflow attacks
- Code execution attacks
- Privilege escalation
- OWASP Top Ten
- Defending against directory traversal
- Race condition vulnerabilities
- Next steps
Taught by
Mike Chapple
