Cyber2theMax

I wanted to document my first time using Nessus. Nessus is a vulnerability scanner that is free to use. I figured I would write out instructions if anyone wanted to follow along and try it themselves.  First download Nessus by using the link Tenable Nessus Essentials Vulnerability Scanner | Tenable® this will send an email with an activation code. It also says download Nessus, you can click on this to being the download. Select version of Nessus that you want. I went with windows -86x64 because I’m running windows 10. Then click download. Read through the license agreement and click I agree to begin download. Next, click on your downloads and open file, InstallShield wizard will appear. Follow the prompts. It will go through license agreement again, read through the agreement and click I accept the terms in the license agreement and click next. It will show you the destination folder for Nessus. Click next, then click install. It will ask do you want to allow this app to m...

      All over the internet I've read or seen posts that state the best way to get IT experience is to build your own home lab. There are a multitude of ways to go about this. As I did my research, I found that the best way for me to have a home lab is to create a virtual machine (VM). The advantage to having a virtual machine home lab is the cost is a lot lower. You don't have to buy switches or cords or have multiple computers. Another advantage is you save a lot of physical space. You can do everything from one computer. If you want to learn more about what a home lab is, I suggest this video from IT Career Questions  What is a HomeLab? How can you build your own and why it's useful! - YouTube .       My first thought was to set up virtual machines on AWS. AWS is Amazon web services. They have something called AWS free tier where you get one free year of AWS with 750 hours a month. This was the first route I took, but it did not take long ...