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Nessus Basics

• What is Nessus?

• Open source/free vulnerability scanner.

• Signature based detection.

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• Why use Nessus?

• Vulnerability Assessments

• Penetration Testing

• Security Awareness

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• Who uses this tool?

• Security Professionals

• White Hats

• Black Hats

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• What makes Nessus so special over ISS or any of the other scanners out there?

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• Ok, well this is all fine and dandy, but what does Nessus look like?

• Sensor/Control Panel Implimentation

• Multiple Possible Interfaces

• Multiple Connections to a Single Sensor

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• Well what possible interfaces are their if there are so many of them?

• Web Clients

• X11 Default Client

• Windows Clients

• OSX Clients

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• Web Client

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• X11 Client

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• Windows Client

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• OSX Client

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• Ok, it looks pretty... but how do we use it?

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• More information can be found at:

• http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1741

• http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1753

• http://www.nessus.org