If you’ve been following along in our series on Nessus, you’ve now learned how to install and configure Nessus, use the vulnerability scanner and incorporate it into your enterprise. If you’re like most security practitioners, you’re probably now facing a mountain of data, have no time to read through it and are wondering whether using Nessus is really practical for your complex environment. Rest assured there are methods to save you from this madness! In this tip, we’ll explore three techniques that may help you get the most out of Nessus and manage the data produced by this valuable tool. We’ll look at manipulating output files, parsing data with Perl scripts and creating a Nessus database.

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Published in SearchEnterpriseLinux on 01/30/06