Nessus Software
- 1. âą Nessus was founded by Renuad Deraison in the year 1998 to provide to the Internet community a free remote security scanner. âąIt is vulnerability scanner which allow you to detect vulnerability in your system. âąIt is very popular vulnerability scanner which support Windows , Linux and Mac operating system etc. âąNessus uses web interface to install , scan and report the various vulnerabilities. âąIt identifies vulnerabilities that allow remote attacker to access sensitive information rom the system.
- 2. Hardware Requirement Nessus managing up to 50,000 hosts âą CPU: 1 dual-core 2 GHz âą CPU Memory: 2 GB RAM (4 GB RAM recommended) âą Disk space: 30 GB Nessus managing more than 50,000 hosts âą CPU: 1 dual-core 2 GHz CPU (2 dual-core recommended) âą Memory: 2 GB RAM (8 GB RAM recommended) âą Disk space: 30 GB (Additional space may be needed for reporting)
- 3. Download and Installation âą You can download it from https://www.tenable.com/products/nessus/nessus- professional âą Once you download it then register https://www.tenable.com/products/nessus/activation-code âą Then install the tool. âą Open the Nessus in the browser http://localhost:8834/WelcomeToNessus- Install/welcome âą Create an account and then fill the activation code âą Then downloads the necessary plugins. âą After completion of installation you redirect to the login page and put your credential their.
- 4. Policies âą Policies are nothing but the vulnerability test. There are 4 default policie. 1. External network scan 2. Internal network scan 3. Web App Tests 4. Prepare for PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards) âą Create a new policy by clicking on New policy button:
- 5. Choose the type of scan that you want to perfom on your network.
- 6. Now I am selecting the basic network scan on my IP address for this you can give whatever name you want and then give the little description and it is optional
- 7. Now go to the credential and then if you are using Linux or Mac OS choose Host otherwise Windows for windows XP users and also fill the username and password by choosing password in the authentication method
- 8. There are so many plug-in available in Nessus,click on save button to save your policy.
- 9. After saving the policy it automatically redirect to the page where you can see the newly created policy by their name Now you have successfully created the policy.
- 10. Now click on New Scan button and start the scanning process you can also create an folder if you want and then perform the scan in that particular folder Now choose the basic network scan to check all the vulnerability in our particular ip address
- 11. Here give the name to your scan and add little bit description and add the folder. In targets field you can give the one or more IP Addresses for scanning. And then click on launch button to start scan.
- 12. You can see the status as running ,it will take some time because it is scanning all the vulnerability in our network IP Address
- 13. Now you now see the pie chart and the go to the vulnerabilities section
- 14. It will show you all the available vulnerabilities present in my network and double click on any vulnerability to see the description about it.