Security Automation with Ansible 2

Starting a specified scan using scan ID

The following snippet will start the specified scan based on scan_id and returns the status information:

- name: starting nessus scan "{{ scan_id }}" using autoNessus  command: "autoNessus -sS {{ scan_id }}"  register: start_scan_output- debug:    msg: "{{ start_scan_output.stdout_lines }}"

Ansible output returning scan status after starting

Similarly, we can perform pause, resume, stop, list policies, and so on. Using the AutoNessus program, these playbooks are available. This can be improved by advancing the Nessus API scripts.