Nessus Tutorial for Beginners: Vulnerability Management (PUT THIS ON YOUR RESUME!)

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In this video we will cover vulnerability scanning and vulnerability remediation. These are two of the main steps in the Vulnerability Management Lifecycle. We will be using Nessus Essentials to scan local VMs hosted on VMWare Workstation in order run credentialed scans to discover vulnerabilities, remediate some of the vulnerabilities, then perform a rescan to verify remediation. You can use this lab for your resume to gain experience when applying to vulnerability management roles!

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0:00 Intro
0:55 What is vulnerability management?
1:15 Put this on your resume (example)
1:30 Install VMWare Player
2:00 Download Windows 10 ISO
2:50 Download and Install Nessus Essentials
5:30 Setup Virtual Machine
8:30 Ensure connectivity with VM
10:05 Create a new scan in Nessus
12:00 Inspecting the first scan (no credentials)
13:38 Configuring VM for credentialed scans
16:20 First scan with credentials
17:15 Inspecting First scan with credentials results
20:00 Installing a deprecated Firefox on our VM
21:45 Inspect scan results after installing deprecated firefox
23:10 Remediating some vulnerabilities
24:39 Inspect scan results after remediating some vulnerabilities
26:20 Other thoughts on enterprise vulnerability management
27:47 Outro

save to C:\ISOs
Install Nessus Essentials (get activation code from your email)
[nessus key]
[username]/[pw]

Create Windows 10 VM with bridged NIC
admin/Password1
Enable Remote Registry
Enable Printer and File Sharing
Disable Firewall
Scan your VM without inserting credentials into Nessus, observe report
My Scans ... "Create a new scan" ... "Basic Network Scan"
Insert Credentials in Nessus and re-scan VM, observe report*
Uninstall deprecated Firefox
Rescan the VM, observe report
Create Windows XP VM with bridged NIC
Setup Network sharing
Scan XP VM with credentials, observe report

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[JoshMadakor]

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[geraldblackmon]

Great Walkthru Josh !!!! I just added your channel in hopes of seeing more walkthroughs like this to boost my resume skills list.

[WithSandra]

This is awesome! I haven't used Nessus personally but I know it's one of the big vulnerability scanners out there, also appreciate the walkthrough as someone new to vuln scanning 😆

[israelisrael]

Thanks Josh your like the big I never had. I'm learning so much and thanks for your resume samples. My confidence is growing and I'm becoming a beast 💪 💯

[devonboling]

Really enjoyed this walk-through, thank you for recording it. If you haven't already, a video showing how to take this to the next level with automation or remediating multiple machines at the same time would be fantastic. I'll go read up on the subject, but these videos are a great way to gain the knowledge quicker.

[Mac-ewgv]

This was a very well-structured video explaining how to perform vulnerability management. I've already downloaded your resume templates and will put them to use in the future.

[craigheard]

Thanks sir. First. You’re a great online teacher. Well done. Second, you’re very savvy (love the example resume from your actual YouTube video lesson), and that makes me want to subscribe to your channel. Thank you for the lesson.

[parislol]

Josh---much appreciated! Just got my N+ & S+ and I'm trying to get some hands on while I work as an IT PM. This video helped demystify Nessus. Thanks for making great content :)

[alphagenisis]

This is EXACTLY the type of walkthrough I’ve always wanted. Thank you!

[YoungSimba_]

Thank you Josh for what you do. Someone like me transitioning from other industry into Cubersecurity, this is really helpful.

[brownseeagle]

Recently did this walkthrough in my lab environment and it was very interesting! Thank you for this content

[sudha]

That was an awesome video and easy to understand. Thank you so much for making the effort to create this video

[ppvshenoy]

Thanks for walking through basics of vulnerability management using Nessus. This was extremely helpful.

[okanceliker]

This is one of the BEST videos about vulnerability management. It is simple, short, and practical. Thank you for sharing this, Josh!

[OssieColey]

So very grateful for your sublime tutelage, Mr. Madakor. You're the best.

[PhannaPH]

This is the helpful Video that inspires me to find my new career in Cyber Security. Honestly, I have never used Nessus for my current work(I am Network Engineer ✌ moving to Cyber Security😁) but now I can use it and understand the basics of Nessus to scan to find more vulnerabilities on the devices. I would like to thank you for this helpful video guide. I do hope you will drop more Videos that relate to Cyber Security.🙌👏👍

[JoseGonzalez-qbvd]

Josh, your video is awesome! I've been looking for some basic knowledge that would help me learn about Nessus scans. We use them where I work and I'm trying to break into a cybersecurity position and Nessus scans often come up in the job description. Thank you!

[DJEzraLive]

As someone who just started a proper sysadmin gig, I found this to be quite helpful as I'd never used Nessus before. Solid tutorial, and I look forward to checking out more of your content :)

[spencerhulme]

This is great training and learning content Josh, a plethora of information to gain and apply into scenarios - thank you

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