title: Learning Nessus for Penetration Testing
author: Himanshu Kumar
description: Himanshu Kumar Himanshu Kumar is a very passionate security specialist with multiple years of experience as a security researcher. He has handson experience in almost all domains of Information Security specializing in Vulnerability Assessment and penetration testing. He enjoys writing scripts to exploit vulnerabilities. He is active on different security forums, such as webappsec and security focus where he loves responding to different security problems.
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  Learning Nessus for
  
  Penetration Testing
  
  Master how to perform IT infrastructure security vulnerability assessments
  using Nessus with tips and insights from real-world challenges faced during
  vulnerability assessment
  
   **Himanshu Kumar**
  
  BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
  
  [www.it-ebooks.info](http://www.it-ebooks.info/)
  
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