Session 8: Verifying Nessus Scanner & Installing Nessus Agent for Secure Vulnerability Management

Welcome back to Day 4 - Part 2 of our Tenable Vulnerability Management (TVM) Training Series! This session is a continuation of Session 7, where we deployed the Nessus Scanner on our AWS Windows Server 2016 VM.

What’s Covered in This Session?
📌 Step 1: Verifying Nessus Scanner Appliance
• Checking the scanner’s IP address to confirm connectivity
• Validating successful linking with Tenable VM UI

📌 Step 2: Working with Scanner Groups
• Navigating to the "Scanner Groups" option (beside Linked Scanners)
• Creating a Scanner Group for better organization & scanning efficiency

📌 Step 3: Configuring Access Control & User Role Assignment
• Assigning user roles & permissions
• Understanding role-based access control (RBAC) in Tenable VM
• Exploring capabilities of different user roles

📌 Step 4: Credentialed Scanning & Its Benefits
• Why use credentialed scans? (Deeper security assessments vs. unauthenticated scans)
• Discussing privileges required for credentialed scanning
• Setting up credentials in the Tenable VM Dashboard

📌 Step 5: Downloading & Installing Nessus Agent on Windows Server VM
• Downloading Nessus Agent on our AWS-hosted Windows Server VM
• Providing necessary credentials for agent configuration
• Successful installation & verification of Nessus Agent

📌 Live Demo: Step-by-Step Nessus Agent Deployment
• Full hands-on installation process
• Ensuring proper connectivity with Tenable VM

💡 By the end of this session, our Nessus Scanner & Nessus Agent will be fully configured and ready for scanning!
📌 What’s Next?
In the next session, we will initiate our first vulnerability scan using the configured Nessus Scanner & Nessus Agent and analyze the results.

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Видео Session 8: Verifying Nessus Scanner & Installing Nessus Agent for Secure Vulnerability Management канала Raghuveer Singh