AI-Powered Vulnerability Scanner with Nessus, Risk Triage & Google Sheets Reporting

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🛡 CyberScan – AI-Powered Vulnerability Scanner with Nessus, OpenAI, and Google Sheets

👤 Who’s it for

Security teams, DevOps engineers, vulnerability analysts, and automation builders who want to eliminate repetitive Nessus scan parsing, AI-based risk triage, and manual reporting. Designed for orgs following NIST CSF or CISA KEV compliance guidelines.


⚙️ How it works / What it does

  • Runs scheduled or manual scans via the Nessus API.
  • Processes scan results and extracts asset + vulnerability data.
  • Uses a custom AI-based risk metric (LEV) to triage findings into:
    • 🚨 Expert review
    • ✅ Self-healing
    • 🕵️ Monitoring
  • Automatically sends email alerts for critical CVEs.
  • Exports daily summaries to Google Sheets (or your own BI system).
  • Maps to NIST CSF (Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, Recover).

🧰 How to set up

  1. Nessus: Add your Nessus API credentials and instance URL.
  2. Google Sheets: Authenticate your Google account.
  3. OpenAI / LLM: Use your API key if adding LLM triage or rewrite prompts.
  4. Email: Update SMTP credentials and alert recipient address.
  5. Set your targets: Adjust asset ranges or scan UUIDs as needed.
  6. ⚠️ All setup steps are explained in sticky notes inside the workflow.

📋 Requirements

  • Nessus Essentials (Free) or Nessus Pro with API access.
  • SMTP service (e.g. Gmail, Mailgun, SendGrid).
  • Google Sheets OAuth2 credentials.
  • Optional: OpenAI or other LLM provider for LEV scoring and CVE insights.

🛠 How to customize the workflow

  • Swap Google Sheets with Airtable, Supabase, or PostgreSQL.
  • Change scan logic or asset list to fit your internal network scope.
  • Adjust AI scoring logic to match internal CVSS thresholds or KEV tags.
  • Expand alerting logic to include Slack, Discord, or webhook triggers.

🔒 No sensitive data included. All credentials and sheet links are placeholders.

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