How do it…

Perform the following steps:

  1. Open the Nessus Web Client.
  2. Log in to the Nessus Web Client with the user info created during installation.
  3. Click on the Policies tab and select Create a new policy.
  4. Select Advanced Scan and fill in the required details:

  1. Navigate to the Compliance tab and search for Linux benchmarks available in Nessus:

This shows various benchmarks for different versions of Ubuntu. But in order to select the appropriate profile, we will first have to identify the version of Ubuntu running on the test machine.

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