December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
364 pages
7h 30m
English
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Summary
Security teams and IT teams rely on tools for vulnerability scanning, management, remediation, and continuous security processes. Nessus, by being one of the most popular and useful tools, was an automatic choice for the authors to try and automate.
In this chapter, we looked at the main activities of vulnerability scanning, such as being able to install and deploy the tool, initiate a scan, and download a report.
In the next chapter, we will delve deeper into system security and hardening. We will look at various open security initiatives and benchmarking projects such as STIG, OpenSCAP, and Center for Internet Security (CIS). We will learn how to integrate them with our playbooks and automation tools, such as Tower and Jenkins. ...