Scanning with Nessus and OpenVAS — Roadmap Step & Resources
Running and interpreting results from the industry-standard vulnerability scanners
- Level: intermediate
- Estimated time: 2 days
- Roadmap: Cybersecurity Analyst / Ethical Hacker
Before this step
Mini projects
- Run a full vulnerability scan against a lab network and triage the findings
Study resources
- Nmap Tutorial to find Network Vulnerabilities (Video) — NetworkChuck's widely-watched, practical tutorial on scanning for network vulnerabilities.
- Nessus Documentation (Article) — Tenable's own official documentation for the industry-standard Nessus scanner.
Part of
- Vulnerability Assessment — section
- Cybersecurity Analyst / Ethical Hacker roadmap — the full learning path