Chapter 4
Running Your First Scan
Introduction
As you are probably already aware, the realm of security problems is large, varied, and rapidly changing. Nessus’ success in this realm is a result of its extensively configurable design and its large, varied, and easily augmented library of scanning modules. It can provide a broad, bird’s–eye view of a network, locate specific types of systems, investigate a particular service, or (if used without care) bludgeon the networked systems into complete collapse. The key ...
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