- Nessus is a web application.
Once you install Nessus,
you can use it through your web browser.
Make sure that you're tapping the right URL.
Local host colon eight, eight, three, four.
Ignore the not secure warning.
Let's sign on to an Nessus
by giving the username and the password.
My username is root.
Click on sign in.
I already ran a couple of scans.
The first scan was host discovery
which finds all the devices connected to your network.
It also shows open ports for each host.
In addition to the host discovery scan type,
there are many others you can run.
To do a new scan, click on the plus sign here.
There are three major scan types;
discovery, vulnerabilities,
and compliance.
Let's run a new basic network scan.
The name of this scan is test.
The targets are the host to be scanned.
We can scan our entire sub-net by typing
10.0.0.0/24.
Select launch and click on it.
The scan is running.
While the scan is going on, you can also see the status.
Nessus is already finding many vulnerabilities here.
Nessus prioritizes the vulnerabilities
and allows you to tackle the most serious ones first.
You like what you've seen so far?
Network vulnerability assessment could be
a user-friendly and satisfying experience.
And Nessus is proof of that.