
Since we are utilizing the AWS Python SDK, the first step will be to connect to your AWS account, from which we will retrieve the EC2 IP address. In this case, AWS EC2’s IP address is needed to use them as targets for the scan.

The tools we will be using are the Tenable Python SDK, AWS Python SDK, and Boto 3 to launch a scan on AWS EC2. In this post, I will talk about how to use Nessus on EC2. Tenable Nessus is a network vulnerability scanner, and you use it to scan your assets to expose common vulnerabilities and misconfiguration.
