From nessus  Wed Feb 08 03:01:56 2006
From: "George A. Theall" <theall () tenablesecurity ! com>
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 03:01:56 +0000
To: nessus
Subject: Re: Database
Message-Id: <43E95F24.1050805 () tenablesecurity ! com>
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On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 08:36:05AM -0500, Sanford Thompson wrote:

> How is the best way to extract the information from a Nessus report?

There's no easy answer to your question - it will depend on what format
the report is in, what format you need it in, what tools you have at
your disposal, your skill level, etc.

On one side, I personally find the NBE output format very flexible and
use that. Results are stored on one line and if you're comfortable with
writing unix shell scripts / filters, it's trivial to extract results
for, say, one or two plugins of interest.

On the other, Tenable's Lightning Console
(http://www.tenablesecurity.com/products/lightning.shtml) provides a
web-based solution for organizing and managing network security
information, including Nessus scanners and its reports.

And in between, there are various third-party tools, such as the
recently-announced simpleness (http://tech.stlsawall.com/docs/nessus/),
Inprotect (http://www.inprotect.com/), nessQuick
(http://www.atriskonline.com/archives/00000048.shtml), etc.


George
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theall@tenablesecurity.com
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