Nessus' Built-in Scanning Recommendations
Every network is different, and tuning your Nessus scan policy can yield great results. A new plugin has been added for Nessus 5.2 and higher (plugin ID #66359) which will analyze the scan results for your environment and the scan settings that were used, and then suggest improvements for a better audit.
For example, I scanned a Windows system on the network without entering credentials. When the Nessus scan was complete, I was presented with a "tip" that, if implemented, would yield more complete vulnerability scanning results:
Tips appear automatically once your scan completes. The initial set of tips will include several different recommendations. For example, if the targets presented network-based services and no Windows credentials were entered, a tip is displayed along with a link to instructions on how to add credentials. You can read the recommendations page titled "How to Enable Credentialed Checks on Windows" as an example. Or, if a Microsoft Exchange server is detected on your network, Nessus will remind you it could be configured to perform a mobile device scan.
Conclusion
Nessus tips will help users configure their scans to provide more complete and actionable results. As we continue to add more features into Nessus, more tips will appear after your scans if they make sense in your environment.
Related Articles
Study: Tenable Offers Fastest, Broadest Coverage of CISA's KEV Catalog
October 23, 2023Tenable ranked first in multiple vulnerability management categories, including the most comprehensive coverage and quickest detection of CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities, according to a Miercom report commissioned by Tenable.
Tuning Network Assessments for Performance and Resource Usage
September 13, 2022Using the correct tool for the job and optimizing scanner placement will have a large impact on scan efficiency with Nessus, Tenable.io and Tenable.sc.
Terrascan Joins the Nessus Community, Enabling Nessus To Validate Modern Cloud Infrastructures
May 17, 2022The addition of Terrascan to the Nessus family of products helps users better secure cloud native infrastructure by identifying misconfigurations, security weaknesses, and policy violations by scanning Infrastructure as Code repositories.
CVE-2024-7593: Ivanti Virtual Traffic Manager Authentication Bypass Vulnerability
August 14, 2024Ivanti released a patch for a critical severity authentication bypass vulnerability and a warning that exploit code is publicly available
Microsoft’s August 2024 Patch Tuesday Addresses 88 CVEs
August 13, 2024Microsoft addresses 88 CVEs with seven critical vulnerabilities and 10 zero-day vulnerabilities, six of which were exploited in the wild.
Compromising Microsoft's AI Healthcare Chatbot Service
August 13, 2024Tenable Research discovered multiple privilege-escalation issues in the Azure Health Bot Service via a server-side request forgery (SSRF), which allowed researchers access to cross-tenant resources.
- Nessus