Resumen de Nessus: the free network security scanner

Renaud Deraison, Jordan Hrycaj

• A network scanner is a tool for analyzing network services, available on a given set of systems. With Nessus, a new breed of scanners has been published capable of running real attacks, often called exploits, in order to determine that well-known system deficiencies can be exploited when running the attack against the scanned systems.