GFI LANguard: Network Security Scanner Tool, Vulnerability Management Solution

GFI LANguard™ is an award-winning network and security scanner used by thousands of customers.

GFI LANguard scans your network and ports to detect, assess and correct security vulnerabilities with minimal administrative effort. As an administrator, you have to deal separately with problems related to vulnerability issues, patch management and network auditing, at times using multiple products. However, with GFI LANguard these three cornerstones of vulnerability management are addressed in one package. We give you a complete picture of your network set-up and help you to maintain a secure network state faster and more effectively.

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Why use GFI LANguard?

Powerful network, security and port scanner with network auditing capabilities
Over 15,000 vulnerability assessments carried out across your network, including virtual environment
Reduces the total cost of ownership by centralizing vulnerability scanning, Patch Management and Network Auditing
LANguard has automated options help to retain a secure network state with minimal administrative effort
Network-wide auditing functions provides a complete picture of network and port security set-up
Voted #1 Windows commercial security scanner by Nmap users for two years running
Can assist with PCI DSS compliance

Launching a LANGuard Scan

Launching a New Scan

Vulnerability Management

GFI LANguard is a vulnerability scanner. GFI LANguard allows you to vulnerability scan your network security and take action before it is compromised.

Patch Management

When a network scan is complete, GFI LANguard’s Patch Management allows you to effectively deploy and manage patches on all machines across different Microsoft operating systems and products in over 35 languages.

Not only can you automatically download missing Microsoft security updates, but you can also automatically deploy the missing Microsoft patches or service-packs throughout your network at the end of scheduled scans.

GFI LANguard also offers patch management support for many popular non-Microsoft applications; click here for a full list.

LANGuard Scan Results

LANGuard Scan Results

Network Auditing

GFI LANguard’s Network Auditing gives you a comprehensive network audit your network by retrieving hardware information on memory, processors, display adapters, storage devices, motherboard details, printers, and ports in use.

Using baseline comparisons you can check whether any hardware was added or removed since the last scan.

GFI LANguard will identify and report unauthorized software installations and provide alerts or even automatically uninstall unauthorized applications.

Extensive HTML Reports after a Scan

Extensive HTML Reports after the Scan

Result: You know what vulnerabilities your network has and what to do so solve them!

GFI LANguard Features

LANGuard Top Features

Patch Management for Non-Microsoft Software
Identify security vulnerabilities and take remedial action
Detect Virtual Machines
Automatic remediation of unauthorized applications
Automatic deployment of network-wide patch and service pack management
Easily analyze and filter scan results

Other LANGuard Features

Custom vulnerability checks
Extensive, industrial-strength vulnerabilities database
Ensures that third party security applications such as anti-virus and anti-spyware offer optimum protection
LANguard easily creates different types of scans and vulnerability tests
Open ports: GFI LANguard scans for unnecessary open ports and checks that no port hijacking is in force
Remote desktop connection
Deploys custom or third party software and patches network-wide
Extended hardware auditing facility
LANguard automatically receive alerts of new security holes
Check if security auditing is enabled network-wide
Scan and retrieve OS data from Linux systems
Monitoring Dashboard
Multiply the value of GFI LANguard with powerful reporting
Helps to comply with PCI DSS and other regulations
Support for virtual environments

A must for network managers:

In a review in the Belgian edition of PC Magazine, GFI LANguard™ is given 4 stars out of five and praised for its ease of installation and the low threshold required to get started. Concluding, the reviewer said that GFI LANguard 9 “is a must for every network manager”.- PC Magazine, January 2009

GFI LANguard Free and Commercial Versions

The Free Version of GFI LANGuard is restricted to only scanning five IP addresses. The full version is purchased based on the number of IP addresses to be scanned, starting at a minimum of ten IP addresses.