Syngress Publishing's "Nessus Network Auditing" is co-authored by Nessus Project Founder Renaud Deraison and a team of leading Nessus developers. This book covers all the latest features of Nessus and includes a bonus CD-ROM including Nessus, Snort 2.1, Ethereal, and other utilities.
"Nessus Network Auditing" focuses on installing, configuring, and optimizing Nessus, which is a remote security scanner for Linux, BSD, Solaris, and other Unices. It is plug-in-based, has a GTK interface, and performs over 1200 remote security checks. It allows for reports to be generated in HTML, XML, LaTeX, and ASCII text, and suggests solutions for security problems. As with many open source programs, Nessus is incredibly popular, incredibly powerful, and incredibly under-documented. This book will document all facets of deploying Nessus on a production network. Chapter topics include: Vulnerability Assessment, Introducing Nessus, Installing Nessus, Running Your First Scan, Interpreting Results, Vulnerability Types, False Positives, Under the Hood, The Nessus Knowledge Base, Enterprise Scanning, NASL, The Nessus User Community, The NASL2 Reference Manual, Utilizing Domain Credentials to Enhance Nessus Scans. To order your copy or for more information, see: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1931836086/ or call 1-800-998-9938 or email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nessus Network Auditing Jay Beale, Haroon Meer, Roelof Temmingh, Charl Van Der Walt, Renaud Deraison Publisher: Syngress ISBN: 1931836086, 544 pages, $49.95 US, $69.95 CA http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1931836086/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- If you want to cancel a subscription to this newsletter, or add subscriptions to other topics, go to http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/user/home For non-automated human help email [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----------------------------------------------------------------
