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About Nexpose

Vulnerability analysis is the process that detects, identifies, and assesses the vulnerabilities that exist within an organizational infrastructure. A vulnerability is a characteristic of an asset that an attacker can exploit to gain unauthorized access to sensitive data, inject malicious code, or generate a denial of service attack. To prevent security breaches, it is important to identify and remediate security holes and vulnerabilities that can expose an asset to an attack.
Generally, to perform vulnerability analysis, you perform the following steps:
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Nexpose automates the steps that you typically use to find and analyze vulnerabilities. Nexpose scans the assets to identify the active services, open ports, and applications that run on each machine. After the scan, Nexpose attempts to identify vulnerabilities that may exist based on the attributes of the known services and applications. Nexpose discloses the results in a scan report, which help you to prioritize vulnerabilities based on risk factor and determine the most effective solution to implement.