Nessus policies
Within the Nessus application, there are many existing policies for various purposes, and new ones are added to the database quite often. Nessus policies are the parameters that control the technical aspects of a scan on a target system. To elaborate further, the technical aspects of a scan may include the number of host devices to scan, the port numbers and services, protocol type (TCP, UDP, and ICMP), the type of port scanner, and so on.
Nessus policies also allow the use of credentials (usernames and passwords) for local scanning on Windows-based operating systems, database applications such as Oracle platforms, and other application-layer protocols such as FTP, POP, and HTTP.
There are preinstalled policies that help security ...
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