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The book on "Vulnerability Assessment with Nessus" is primarily intended to provide comprehensive view about the process of Vulnerability Assessment, its objectives, importance, and the methodology to be carried out. The key objective of the book is to introduce and review different automated tools available to conduct Vulnerability Assessment process. Nessus is one of the automated security scanning tools. This book demonstrates how to work with Nessus to discover vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and other security weaknesses in any network infrastructure. Scanning results generated are presented and the reports generated will be useful for the security professionals to recommend appropriate mitigations and to develop and suggest a security model to handle threats.
Padmavathi Ganapathi
Author
Padmavathi Ganapathi
Dr. Padmavathi Ganapathi is the Dean-School of Physical Sciences and Computational Sciences and Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women (Deemed to be University), Coimbatore, India. She has more than 33 years of teaching experience and 25 years of research experience. Her areas of interest include, Cyber Security, Wireless Communication and Real Time Systems. She has executed funded projects worth 267.368 lakhs Sponsored by AICTE, UGC, DRDO and DST. She has supervised 22 scholars at Ph. D level. She has more than 200 publications in prestigious conferences and peer-reviewed journals. She is the life members of various professional bodies like CSI, ISTE, ISCA, WSEAS, AACE and AICW. She is reviewers for many IEEE Conferences and Journals. She has visited many countries for technical deliberations. She is the Course Co-ordinator for SWAYAM-MOOC on Cyber Security. So far, more than 71, 000 learners have enrolled for various sessions and benefitted.
Co-author
Mrs. S. Karthika
She is working as an Assistant Professor in Department of Information Technology, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women (Deemed to be University), Coimbatore, India. She has more than 7 years of teaching experience. Her areas of Interest include, Cyber Security and Network Security.
