🔒 AI-powered vulnerability scanner with Nessus, risk triage & Google Sheets reporting

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Description

🛡 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.

🔗 Nodes Used

Send Email, Function, Google Sheets, HTTP Request, Schedule Trigger

📥 Import

Download workflow.json and import into n8n: Workflow menu → Import from File

📖 Importing guide · 🔑 Credential setup