Nessus Vulnerability Management Lab

Project Overview

This repository demonstrates my knowledge of vulnerability scanning, vulnerability management, risk prioritization, security reporting, remediation planning, and compliance auditing using Tenable Nessus.

This is an educational cybersecurity portfolio project. It does not contain Tenable software, proprietary plugins, license keys, customer data, or confidential scan results.

Project Objectives

• Understand the vulnerability management lifecycle
• Configure safe and authorized vulnerability scans
• Analyze Nessus scan findings
• Understand CVE and CVSS information
• Prioritize vulnerabilities by severity and business risk
• Develop remediation recommendations
• Track vulnerability remediation
• Create professional security reports
• Study credentialed and non-credentialed scanning
• Understand compliance auditing concepts

Vulnerability Management Lifecycle

1. Identify assets
2. Define scan scope
3. Receive authorization
4. Configure the scanner
5. Run the vulnerability scan
6. Validate findings
7. Remove false positives
8. Prioritize vulnerabilities
9. Assign remediation tasks
10. Rescan affected systems
11. Verify remediation
12. Document results

Repository Structure

nessus-vulnerability-management/
├── README.md
├── LICENSE
├── docs/
├── reports/
├── remediation/
├── scan-policies/
├── scripts/
└── screenshots/