How to do it…

Perform the following steps:

1. Open the Nessus Web Client.
2. Log in to the Nessus client with the user that you created during installation.
3. Navigate to the settings screen by clicking on the Settings option on the home screen, which directly displays options under the About menu:

1. Manage the software update settings by navigating to the Software Update menu and select the frequency and the type of update you would prefer:

1. Set a master password by navigating to the Master Password section to encrypt all the Nessus repositories, policies, results, and configurations:

1. Navigate to the ADVANCED tab in the left pane under SETTINGS. This allows a user to configure 45 different global settings which apply to all the policies and users configured, such as log file, plugin, and path settings:

1. Navigate to the Proxy Server tab in the left-hand pane under SETTINGS. Here, you can configure a proxy server for Nessus to forward the request. This is used when there is a proxy server in-between the host to be scanned and Nessus:

1. Navigate to the SMTP Server tab in the left-hand pane under SETTINGS. This allows the user to configure SMTP settings for any email notifications the user requires Nessus to send, such as post-scan completion:

1. Navigate to the Custom CA tab in the left-hand pane under SETTINGS. Here, the user can upload a custom CA signature, which will be used to avoid false positives in SSL-related findings:

1.  Navigate to the Password Mgmt tab in the left-hand pane under SETTINGS. Here, the admin can configure the password policy to be followed by all the users and groups: