Tenable Nessus is a powerful vulnerability scanner that helps you identify and fix security issues in your network, web applications, cloud infrastructure, and more. With Nessus, you can:
- Scan your IT assets for thousands of known and emerging vulnerabilities, with low false positives and high accuracy.
- Audit your systems for compliance with industry standards and best practices, such as PCI DSS, CIS Benchmarks, NIST, and more.
- Discover and assess your internet-exposed attack surface, including web applications, domains, certificates, and cloud assets.
- Leverage advanced features such as web application scanning, external attack surface scanning, cloud infrastructure scanning, and custom policies.
- To run the software, you need a VMware virtualizer. (VMware)
- Set both network adaptor to NAT
- You can change the amount of RAM and CPU of the virtual machine according to the specifications of your system. (optional)
- Turn on the virtual machine and wait for it to turn on completely and see the black and white login screen.
- Log in to the VM with the root username and hide01.ir password.
- To find the internal IP address of the VM, type ifconfig | more
- After finding the internal IP address of the VM in your main operating system, open your browser and go to the address https://IP:8834
- Nessus software needs to prepare its plugins and tools, and depending on the speed of your hardware, especially (HDD/SSD), it may take between 20 and 30 minutes.
- log in with the Nessus username and hide01.ir password