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Demo: Nessus

Demo: Nessus

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Demo: Nessus

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- [Instructor] Nessus is not installed by default in Kali Linux, but there are multiple download options that you can take advantage of. All you need to do is open a web browser within your Kali VN navigate to tenable.com/downloads/nessus, and then choose the version and platform that you'd like to use in your lab environment. In my case, I'm using the Linux Ubuntu aarch 64, although you may choose Linux Debian amd 64, if that's appropriate for your hardware. With the files saved locally, you can open a terminal window, navigate to that directory, and then I'd like you to run this command, sudo dpkg, dbn package, -i, and then the name of the .deb file. And what this is going to do is, automatically install Nessus, based on the contents of the installer. One other important step that's necessary to get Nessus working in Kali is to start the Nessus Debian as a service, and that's a fairly simple command as well. It's /bin/systemctl, and then the word start, and then Nessus D, as in…

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