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PowerShell and .Nessus File Revisited

Posted on October 11, 2014November 29, 2014 by Alan

I previously wrote about processing .Nessus files using Posh-NVS. I found my needs to be a little different from what that project provides, so I decided to take a crack at my own script for reading .Nessus files. Unlike Posh-NVS, it has no modules to install and my Convert-Nessus.ps1 adds the host information onto the…

PowerShell and .Nessus files

Posted on October 1, 2014March 9, 2015 by Alan

Tenable Nessus is a commonly used scanner in the enterprise. The native (version 2) .nessus files which it creates are XML files which contain information about the scan settings, plus the data collected about the hosts. Parsing these files is typically done with a Python script — a Google search yields over 140K results. Looking…

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