{"id":10,"date":"2012-02-07T03:45:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T03:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somethingsomethingsecurity.com\/?p=10"},"modified":"2012-02-07T03:45:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T03:45:00","slug":"nessus-and-wsus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somethingsomethingsecurity.com\/?p=10","title":{"rendered":"Nessus and WSUS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tenable recently added the ability to query various patch deployment management systems to get the patching status of the system being scanned.<\/p>\n<p>This is a handy feature when you can not use scans in order to query the scanned system directly because of credential or port restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>The set up is explained very well at http:\/\/blog.tenablesecurity.com\/2011\/12\/wsus-patch-management-and-nessus.html.<\/p>\n<p>When testing in my environment, the WSUS scan was not working. Looking at the event logs on the WSUS server, showed several account logon failures. A little searching \u00a0lead me to make the changes detailed in http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/cc720470(WS.10).aspx and\u00a0voil\u00e0&#8230;patch management status and other vulnerability details all in one handy report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tenable recently added the ability to query various patch deployment management systems to get the patching status of the system being scanned. This is a handy feature when you can not use scans in order to query the scanned system directly because of credential or port restrictions. The set up is explained very well at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blue","category-nessus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingsomethingsecurity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingsomethingsecurity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingsomethingsecurity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingsomethingsecurity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingsomethingsecurity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingsomethingsecurity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingsomethingsecurity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingsomethingsecurity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingsomethingsecurity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}