Nessus Network Auditing, Second Edition free ebook download.

life. It continues this growth today. It has been adopted as a de facto standard by the security industry, vendor, and practitioner alike, many of whom rely on Nessus as the foundation to their security practices. Now, a team of leading developershave created the definitive book for the Nessus community.* Perform a Vulnerability AssessmentUse Nessus to find programming errors that allow intruders to gain unauthorized access.* Obtain and Install NessusInstall fromsource or binary, set up up clients and user accounts, and update your plug-ins.* Modify the Preferences TabSpecify the options for Nmap and other complex, configurable components of Nessus.* Understand Scanner Logic and DetermineActual RiskPlan your scanning strategy and learn what variables can be changed.* Prioritize VulnerabilitiesPrioritize and manage critical vulnerabilities, information leaks, and denial of service errors.* Deal with FalsePositivesLearn the different types of false positives and the differences between intrusive and nonintrusive tests.* Get Under the Hood of NessusUnderstand the architecture and design of Nessus and master the Nessus Attack ScriptingLanguage (NASL).* Scan the Entire Enterprise NetworkPlan for enterprise deployment by gauging network bandwith and topology issues. * Nessus is the premier Open Source vulnerability assessmenttool, and has been voted the "most popular" Open Source security tool several times.* The first edition is still the only book available on the product.* Written by the world's premier Nessus developers and featuring a forword by thecreator of Nessus, Renaud Deraison.

ISBN: 1597492086, Author: , Publisher: Syngress, Pages: 433, Publication Date: 2008-05-27