Content Audits

(Available only with a Nessus ProfessionalFeed subscription)

The Tenable Nessus® vulnerability scanner can be used to perform agentless content audits of Windows- and UNIX-based systems. If your organization has a data leakage or data usage policy, Nessus can perform these audits for you and help identify where sensitive information is located. This helps to audit and enforce policies that lower your organization's risk of breach or data loss.

Nessus scanners have the ability to log into systems and audit their content for:

• Adult content
• Credit cards
• Corporate financial spreadsheets
• Drivers license numbers
• Document keywords, such as, "TOP SECRET" or "CONFIDENTIAL"
• Human Resource information, such as, salaries
• Social Security Numbers
• and more.

These policies can also be easily extended to support searches for your organization's specific types of data.

Technical Documentation, Tools, and Compliance Audit Files

The plugin checks that perform these audits are available through the Nessus ProfessionalFeed or to Tenable SecurityCenter customers. Documentation about the syntax and use of the compliance checks, tools for automated creation of audit files and access to the currently available audit files is available to Tenable customers through the Tenable Support Portal. Tenable's Discussion Forums also include conversations and content related to auditing computer systems and applications.