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

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

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.

This document describes how Nessus and SecurityCenter can leverage credentials on the WSUS, SCCM and VMware Go (formerly Shavlik) patch management systems to perform patch auditing on systems for which credentials may not be available to the Nessus scanner.

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.

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