Using NASL based Superscripts to measure System Security through Analyzing and Organizing attacks

Vulnerability scanning is a very important aspect in computer network security management towards prevention of system intrusions. To this end, Nessus is a worldwide accepted such tool involving state of the art techniques. The goal of this research is to analyze the principles of vulnerability scanning using Nessus and, more importantly, to model configurations and architectures of computer networks for efficiently employing Nessus towards formalizing vulnerability scanning evaluations. Most importantly, the contribution of the herein research is to provide a superscript based framework for such a vulnerability analysis of a small to medium enterprise.