Scanning with Credentials

• Blended Security Assessments
  Tenable Network Security is uniquely positioned to offer enterprise management of host-based, network-based and passive vulnerability assessment technologies. This paper discusses the advantages and limitations of each technology. The challenges of performing enterprise network vulnerability assessments and how they can be overcome with Tenable SecurityCenter and Nessus.
• Nessus Credentials Checks for Unix and Windows (See also Multilingual Translations.)
  Nessus can not only perform remote security checks of Unix hosts and Windows hosts, but with proper credentials it can also log into them to enumerate the list of missing patches. This document explains how to configure your network and Nessus to perform a complete vulnerability scan.