Nessus SCADA for Automation Control Device Assessment free download
Nessus is a proprietary comprehensive vulnerability scanning software. It is free of charge for personal use in a non-enterprise environment. Its goal is to detect potential vulnerabilities on the tested systems. For example:
- Vulnerabilities that allow a remote cracker to control or access sensitive data on a system.
- Misconfiguration (e.g. open mail relay, missing patches, etc).
- Default passwords, a few common passwords, and blank/absent passwords on some system accounts. Nessus can also call Hydra (an external tool) to launch a dictionary attack.
- Denials of service against the TCP/IP stack by using mangled packets
Nessus can be used to perform SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) security assessment and could monitoring the auditing or security enhancement process on the SCADA device
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