One of my customer's has asked what the network traffic level impact a Nessus scan would have on a network given: 1. targets are all Windows 2. scan would be done with domain authentication. 3. approx 200+ servers scattered over 40 locations in the US spanning east to west coast. 4. WAN uses MPLS cloud 5. Default configuration used: max number of hosts 20 max number of security checks 4, check read timeout 5 seconds, plugin timeout 120, number of packets per second port scan 500
Does anyone have a SWAG for how much traffic throughput per second a Nessus scan can generate? I'm mostly concerned about avoiding flooding switches in key points. Any comments would be helpful. I've searched the Tenable blog and haven't found any info. I counseled my customer that there are too many moving parts to definitively come up with a figure. I was hoping others on this list could share their experience on this point. Thanks Jim _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
