Nessus Expert

What’s your biggest pet peeve about vulnerability scanning? Let me know in the comments (or on the company Slack, where we ignore Nessus alerts until patch Tuesday).

If your scanner is in a segmented network requiring a proxy to reach the internet (for plugin updates), configure this under . nessus expert

Now go update your plugins and stop running scans as DOMAIN\Administrator . Your production environment will thank you. What’s your biggest pet peeve about vulnerability scanning

A novice logs it. An intermediate user verifies it. An asks: “Why did this plugin fire? What’s the difference between Plugin 153953 and Plugin 155321? Which one is a false positive?” nessus expert