Vulnerability Scanning

Nessus

• Overview article

  • https://community.tenable.com/s/article/Nessus-Essentials

• Download nessus

  • https://www.tenable.com/downloads/nessus?loginAttempted=true

• Activate nessus scanner

  • https://www.tenable.com/products/nessus/activation-code

• Install nessus scanner

  • dpkg -i Nessus-9.0.1-ubuntu910_amd64.deb

• Start nessus

  • systemctl start nessusd.service

• Browse to nessus

  • firefox https://localhost:8834

• Scan exporter script

  • https://raw.githubuercontent.com/eelsivart/nessus-report-downloader/master/nessus6-report-downloader.rb

  • ./nessus_downloader.rb

OpenVAS

• https://www.openvas.org/

sudo apt-get update && apt-get -y full-upgrade sudo apt-get install gvm && openvas gvm-setup

• Start OpenVAS

gvm-start https://localhost:8080