Select your scan and then click on More (right side on the site’s top) and “LAUNCH” and when asked, confirm the launch by clicking on the blue button “Launch” Nessus will start scanning: After it finishes, click on your scan and a window showing the results’ quantity will appear,...
Custom – In this method, you can decide your scanning technique; thus, it requires a higher knowledge of networking and web applications than is needed for this tutorial. We shall keep the Assessment settings toDefaultto complete a Basic Network Scan with minimal customization. When defaul...
The testing deliberately focuses onnetwork vulnerability scanning capabilitiesrather than looking at the web application vulnerability detection in detail. Here at Hacker Target, we believe a network vulnerability scanner must be capable of identifying poorly configured services, default services that have po...
Step 1: Installing Nessus To begin, we need to download Nessus from the Tenable website. Tenable does not make it easy to find their free, home version, but you can find itright here. Tenable requires that you register to get their free application, so you will need to give them an ...