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Understanding Network Scanning Tools

In this chapter, we will cover the following:

Introducing Nessus and Nmap
Installing and activating Nessus
Downloading and installing Nmap
Updating Nessus
Updating Nmap
Removing Nessus
Removing Nmap

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