7MS #417: Vulnerability Scanning Tips and Tricks

English - June 04, 2020 21:05 - 43 minutes - 39.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 63 ratings
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Previous Episode: 7MS #416: Pi-hole 5.0

Today's episode is all about getting the most value out of your vulnerability scans, including:

Why, IMHO you should only do credentialed scans

Policy tweaks that will keep servers from tipping over and printers from printing novels of gibberish ;-)

How to make your scan report more actionable and less unruly

Turning up logging to 11 (use with caution!)

A small tweak to an external scan policy that can result in the difference between a successful or failed scan

The nessusd.rules file is awesome for excluding specific hosts and services from your scans