Configuring Nessus for vulnerability scanning

Perform the following steps to configure Nessus for vulnerability scanning:

  1. We have to navigate to https://NESSUSSERVERIP:8834 to confirm and start the service:
  1. As we can see it returns with an SSL error and we need to accept the SSL error and confirm the security exception  and continue with the  installation:
  1. Click on Confirm Security Exception and continue to proceed with the installation steps:
  1. Click on Continue and provide the details of the user, this user has full administrator access: ...

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