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These are the projects where someone runs nmap and Nessus and Metasploit against your network, dumps the Nessus results into a Word document, and calls it a day.

Now, some people abuse this and run scans like Nessus and call it a day.

They more or less run nmap and a nessus scan, and then tell the client how to game those scans without improving security whatsoever (e.g.

There's no substitute for being knowledgeable about web security but there are tools like Nessus and Skipfish and various penetration testing tools that can help.

Probably just variants on Nessus / OpenVAS / Metasploit / etc.

Hamad was expelled not for finding the vulnerability, but for running Nessus against the system after he reported the vulnerability, allegedly as a means of checking to see if it had been fixed.

You can get a license to run Nessus pretty cheaply.

I agree with you though, The existence of nmap, Nessus etc.

$1000 per auditor/day is less than you'd pay to get someone to run Nessus on your network from a normal firm.

I know Nessus (a vulnerability scanner).

They all have their built-in reporting mechanism, but what if I want to see if the vulnerability found in the Tenable Nessus scan relates to the data from our McAfee Endpoint solution?

(Several years ago, I would get really pissed off at Nessus because it generate false positives by simply looking at the version numbers of installed packages.

At the bottom end of that field, it's the people who click "run" on a Nessus scan.

More likely, someone will pay a "security consulting" company $100 million to run a Nessus scan and tell them to turn on Automatic Updates on their Windows infrastructure.

I don't consider running a "Nessus scan" such a huge misdeed.

"Security consulting" and PCI auditing consists of selling Nessus scans (again, if you're lucky, more likely some no-name proprietary tool) at $100,000 a pop.

Nessus and Qualys have new agent-based scanners now, but I have not tested them because they both only support Red Hat-based Linux distros.

There are plenty of outfits based right here in the US who will happily sell you the output of a default scan from an outdated version of Nessus.

Vulnerability scans or automated scans on United servers (including scans using tools such as Acunetix, Core Impact or Nessus) One can hope that the bad guys are similarly polite.