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# Nessus

Nessus is used for asset management in auditing.

* Nessus by Tenable, there is a Essentials which is free and anyone can use it.
* There's also Home, Professional, and Enterprise

Nessus runs off a server. In this case, it's hosted locally,but we're going to be reaching out to another machine on the network

* target: demo.ine.local