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Nessus

API credential, entered client by client.

Self-hosted vulnerability scanner (Nessus Essentials/Professional), used by MSPs to periodically assess the vulnerabilities of a client's fleet. Vigicap reads the list of scans (count, status, date) to evaluate the ReCyF objective « Gestion des vulnérabilités ». The presence of recent, completed scans is a signal, but does not guarantee that the vulnerabilities detected were then remediated.

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What to create in the tool

The access is created in Nessus, not in Vigicap. Vigicap never asks for an administrator's password: it expects an API credential that you create, that you can see, and that you can revoke without us.

Where to generate it

In Nessus: gear icon > My Account > API Keys > Generate. The Access Key and Secret Key are shown only once — copy them immediately.

Minimum role

Sur Nessus Manager, un compte dédié au rôle « Basic » (lecture des résultats de scan) suffit à notre seul appel, GET /scans, à condition que les scans lui soient partagés. Sur Nessus Essentials, Professional et Expert, le moindre privilège n'existe pas : Tenable documente que tous les utilisateurs de ces éditions ont les permissions « System Administrator ».

Taken from the vendor's own role model, and checked before publication.

02

What to enter in Vigicap

The exact fields of the connection form, in the order they appear. Values marked “secret” never travel back to the browser: they are encrypted at rest and deleted on disconnection.

The form starts with the instance address, entered separately from the fields below. The public catalogue does not yet publish whether this connector needs one, or what it looks like — so this list is exact about everything else, and silent about that first field.

  • Access Keysecret

    My Account > API Keys > Generate — access key.

    Access Key Nessus

  • Secret Keysecret

    My Account > API Keys > Generate — secret key, generated together with the Access Key.

    Secret Key Nessus

03

Per-client routing

The connection is made client by client: one credential per client, entered on that client's record. Nothing is shared between two clients, and disconnecting one leaves the other untouched.

04

What it does, and what it does not do

ReCyF objectives it pre-fills

A reading feeds one objective of the ANSSI ReCyF framework. It PROPOSES it: the level only counts once a consultant has confirmed it.

  • #5 Maîtrise des systèmes d'informationControl of the information systems

Read-only

The reads are read-only: Vigicap writes nothing into the tool while reading it.

What is read, what is kept, for how long and with which rights: the same register, connector by connector, in the data inventory.

Verification

This connector has been run end to end against a real instance of the tool, not merely tested against a mock.

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