Nessus is a tool utilized across every organization. It helps find vulnerabilities on machines in a given environment. Nessus scans are instrumental in protecting an environment as they can scan an entire farm versus running through each server individually checking for vulnerabilities. It is important to note that Nessus will error on the side of caution and may report back many false positives. The article notes that while Nessus is very helpful in securing a network it is important to investigate all the vulnerabilities that it reports on and make sure they are not false positives.
Questions for the class:
What other vulnerability scans are utilized other than Nessus?
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