Nessus Documentation

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• Nessus 5.2 Installation and Configuration Guide

  The installation, operation, and configuration of the Nessus vulnerability scanner.

• Nessus 5.2 User Guides

  Describes use of the Nessus vulnerability scanner including scan configuration and reporting.

  Nessus 5.2 HTML5 User Guide

  Nessus 5.2 Flash User Guide

• Nessus Perimeter Service User Guides

  Describes use of Nessus Perimeter Service and includes subscription and activation, vulnerability scanning, compliance reporting, and Perimeter Service support.

  Nessus Perimeter Service User Guide (HTML5 Interface)

  Nessus Perimeter Service User Guide (Flash Interface)

• Nessus 5 and Antivirus

  Outlines how several popular security software packages interact with Nessus, and provides tips or workarounds to allow the software to better co-exist without compromising your security or hindering your vulnerability scanning efforts.

• Nessus 5 and Mobile Device Scanning

  Describes how Nessus integrates with Microsoft Active Directory and mobile device management servers to identify mobile devices in use on the network.

• Nessus 5.0 and Scanning Virtual Machines

  Describes how Tenable Network Security's Nessus vulnerability scanner can be used to audit the configuration of virtual platforms as well as the software that is running on them.

• Strategic Anti-malware Monitoring with Nessus, PVS, and LCE

  Describes how Tenable's USM platform can detect a variety of malicious software and identify and determine the extent of malware infections.

• Nessus Credential Checks for Unix and Windows

  Nessus can not only perform remote security checks of Unix hosts and Windows hosts, but with proper credentials it can also log into them to enumerate the list of missing patches. This document explains how to configure your network and Nessus to perform a complete vulnerability scan.

• Patch Management Integration

  This document describes how Nessus and SecurityCenter can leverage credentials on the IBM TEM, Microsoft WSUS and SCCM, VMware Go, and Red Hat Network Satellite patch management systems to perform patch auditing on systems for which credentials may not be available to the Nessus scanner.

• Nessus Compliance Checks

  This paper discusses what sort of configuration parameters and sensitive data can be audited, how to configure Nessus to perform these audits and how Tenable's SecurityCenter can be used to manage and automate this process. There is also information on how to use the various tools available to create audit policies.

• Nessus Compliance Checks Reference

  This paper discusses the Nessus compliance language syntax and provides examples for those wishing to write their own audit files.

• Tenable Products Plugin Families

  This document provides a description and summary of the plugin families for Nessus, Log Correlation Engine, and the Passive Vulnerability Scanner.

• Nessus 5.0 XML-RPC Protocol Specification

  This document describes the XML-RPC protocol and interface in Nessus 5.0.

• Nessus v2 File Format

  This document explains how the .nessus v2 file format (which is XML-based) is set up and can help you process .nessus v2 files with your own tools.

• Tenable Appliance 2.4 Guide

  This document describes the installation, operation, and configuration of the Tenable Appliance 2.4.