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CNS440 – Lab Assignment Week 3

Complete Lab 2: Performing a Vulnerability Assessment Using the information gathered in the reconnaissance and scanning, attackers proceed to enumerate the network and hosts targeted in the attack. To do so, you will use nmap and Zenmap commands to perform an initial IP host discovery and port/service/operating system scan. Next you will use Nessus to assess the known vulnerabilities at the hosts discovered in the network and report the findings (there are also unknown vulnerabilities aka zero-days that cannot be always detected with Nessus or any other vulnerability scanner tool). Section 1 is a hands-on demonstration – a lot of the steps are repeated in the Section 2 where you have to actually experiment as part of your applied learning. You can go over Section 1 to get a grip; keep the focus on Section 2. Upon Completion of Lab 2, you are required to provide the following deliverables in the Dropbox folder in D2L for this lab:

1. One .docx or .pdf document that contains: 1.1. A summary what you find most interesting and/or most challenging in the lab 1.2. All the screenshots as indicated in the Lab Manual for the lab in the online platform

2. All the remaining files, if there any, as indicated in the Lab Manual for the lab in the online platform.