In the next sections, join us to teach you how to install and configure Nessus on Debian In this section, we want to show you how to install Nessus on Debian To do this, just follow the steps below.
In the first step, you need to open one of the browsers you want. Then go to the Nessus download page and download the bit Debian binary installer.
In the next step, you need to use the following command to enable Nessus to restart the system:. In this section, we are going to discuss the basic settings and how to configure Nessus on Debian In the first configuration step, Nessus must be allowed in the firewall. In the following, we will discuss how to activate and setup Nessus. Ask Question. Asked 7 years, 6 months ago. Active 5 years, 5 months ago.
Viewed 59k times. Improve this question. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Download Nessus from here. Enter root password. Improve this answer. Community Bot 1. The -q option tells Nessus to operate in batch mode. At the end is our existing filename targets. When the scan is finished, it will be added to the Reports tab where we can view the results of the scan. We can also export the report in various formats to be viewed by other people.
Here we can create a new scan by defining the hostname of the target website and the policy the scan will use. When the scan is started, it will be added to a list of all scans already done or currently pending still in the Scans tab. There are various actions we can take with each of the scans: stop it, pause it, delete it, etc. Nessus policies Nessus policies specify what Nessus will do when the scan is being run.
The Basic field in General tab allows us to name the scan policy, define its visibility and describe the policy. In Network Congestion we can specify options that reduce the network load being sent to the testing web server if congestion is detected. The Port Scanners specify the scan methods used to detect if the port is opened or not. Next, there are Port Scan Options where we can specify the ports the Nessus will scan.
We can input the ports manually as a comma-separated list of values. Alternatively we can choose between two already defined options: default and all. The default option scans around standard ports, whereas all scan all available ports. We can use credentials to login into several services automatically by Nessus, which should determine if security patches are applied and if the latest version of software is being used.
In the drop-down menu we have the option to choose one of the following options: Windows credentials, SSH settings, Kerberos configuration or Cleartext protocol settings. Allows us to choose a specific security checks to be performed against the target website. On the picture below we can see the enabled category FTP that will try to detect an anomaly in the FTP server; it will do that by checking the existing FTP server against all the defined plugins on the right that represent all currently known vulnerabilities in FTP servers:.
So, visit the Nessus Download page and scroll to find your Linux operating system and its corresponding version. We already have downloaded the Debian binary to set up Nessus on Linux, now whatever we download from the browser goes into the Downloads folder, so switch to that first.
The Nessus runs on port number , thus to access its web interface remotely using the browser, we need to open this port in our Ubuntu Now, open a browser on a system that can access the Ip-address of the server where you have installed the Nessus scanner instance.
And point to that along with a port number. The initial web page of the Nessus will ask you to select the product which you want to install.
Here, the first product option you get is free to use where the rest are paid but available with a trial period. Nessus Essentials — The free version for educators, students, and hobbyists Nessus Professional — The de-facto industry standard vulnerability assessment solution of security practitioners. Nessus Manager — The enterprise solution for managing Nessus Agent at scale.
Managed Scanner — Link your scanner to another Tenable solution such as Tenable.
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