Integrated vulnerability management solution

GFI LANguard Network Security Scanner (N.S.S.) is an award-winning solution that addresses the three pillars of vulnerability management:
security scanning, patch management and network auditing through a single, integrated console. By scanning the entire network, it identifies all possible security issues and using its extensive reporting functionality provides you with the tools you need to detect, assess, report and rectify any threats.

* Vulnerability scanning
* Patch management
* Network and software auditing.

Vulnerability scanning

During security audits, over 15,000 vulnerability assessments are made and networks are scanned IP by IP. GFI LANguard N.S.S. gives you the capability to perform multi-platform scans (Windows, Mac OS, Linux) across all environments and to analyze your network’s security health from a single source of data. This ensures that you are able to identify and rectify any threats before hackers manage to do so.
IMPROVED! – Identify security vulnerabilities and take remedial action

GFI LANguard N.S.S. scans computers, identifies and categorizes security vulnerabilities, recommends a course of action and provides tools that enable you to solve these issues. GFI LANguard N.S.S. also makes use of a graphical threat level indicator that provides an intuitive, weighted assessment of the vulnerability status of a scanned computer or group of computers. Wherever possible a web link or more information on a particular security issue is provided, such as a BugTraq ID or a Microsoft Knowledge Base article ID

Extensive, industrial-strength vulnerabilities database

GFI LANguard N.S.S. ships with a complete and thorough vulnerability assessment database, which includes standards such as OVAL (2,000+ checks) and SANS Top 20. This database is regularly updated with information from BugTraq, SANS Corporation, OVAL, CVE and others. Through its auto-update system, GFI LANguard N.S.S. is always kept updated with information about newly released Microsoft security updates as well as new vulnerability checks issued by GFI and other community-based information repositories such as the OVAL database.
Ensures that third party security applications such as anti-virus and anti-spyware offer optimum protection

GFI LANguard N.S.S. also checks that supported security applications such as anti-virus and anti-spyware software are updated with the latest definition files and are functioning correctly. For example, you can ensure that supported security applications have all key features (such as real-time scanning) enabled.
Easily creates different types of scans and vulnerability tests

You can easily configure scans for different types of information; such as open shares on workstations, security audit/password policies and machines missing a particular patch or service pack. You can scan for different types of vulnerabilities to identify potential security issues. These include:

* Open ports: GFI LANguard N.S.S. scans for unnecessary open ports and checks that no port hijacking is in force.
* Unused local users and groups: Remove or disable User accounts no longer in use.
* Blacklisted applications: Identify unauthorized or dangerous software and add to blacklists of applications you want to associate with a high security vulnerability alert.
* Dangerous USB devices, wireless nodes and links: Scans all devices connected to USB or wireless links and alerts you of any suspicious activity.

Patch management

When a scan is complete, GFI LANguard N.S.S. gives you all the functionality and tools you need to effectively install and manage patches on all machines across different Microsoft operating systems and products in 38 languages. Click here to view a full list. GFI LANguard also allows auto-downloads of missing patches as well as patch roll-back. Custom software can also be deployed. This results in a consistently configured environment that is secure against all vulnerabilities.

IMPROVED! – Automatically deploy network-wide patch and service pack managementWith GFI LANguard N.S.S. you can easily deploy missing service packs and patches network-wide. GFI LANguard N.S.S. is the ideal tool to monitor that Microsoft WSUS is doing its job properly and it performs tasks WSUS does not such as deploying Microsoft Office and custom software patches. GFI LANguard N.S.S. also provides you with new features such as patch auto-download and patch rollback. It is also Unicode compliant and able to support patch management in all the 38 languages currently supported by Microsoft.

Network and software auditing

GFI LANguard N.S.S.’s auditing function tells you all you need know about your network – what USB devices are connected, what software is installed, any open shares, open ports and weak passwords in use. The solution’s in-depth reports gives you an important and real-time snapshot of your network’s status. Scan results can be easily analyzed using filters and reports, enabling you to proactively secure the network by closing ports, deleting users or groups no longer in use or disabling wireless access points.

Automatically receive alerts of new security holes

GFI LANguard N.S.S. can perform scheduled scans (for instance daily or weekly) and can automatically compare results to previous scans. Any new security holes or security setup changes discovered on your network are emailed to you for analysis. This enables you to quickly identify newly-created shares, installed services, installed applications, added users, newly-opened ports and more. View screenshot.

Check if security auditing is enabled network-wide

GFI LANguard N.S.S. checks if each NT/2000/XP/VISTA machine has security auditing enabled. If not, GFI LANguard N.S.S. alerts you and allows you to enable auditing remotely. Security event auditing is highly recommended because it detects intruders in real-time.

Scan and retrieve OS data from Linux systems

It is possible to remotely extract OS data from Linux-based systems and scan results are presented in the same way as for Windows-based computers. This means that both Linux and Windows-based computers can be analyzed in a single scanning session! GFI LANguard N.S.S. includes numerous Linux security checks including rootkit detection. GFI LANguard N.S.S. can use SSH Private Key files instead of the conventional password string credentials to authenticate to Linux-based target computers.

Other features:

  • Automatically checks the password policy for all machines on the network
  • Checks for programs that run automatically (potential trojans)
  • Finds out if the OS is advertising too much information
  • Performs simultaneous scans through the multithread scan engine
  • Provides NetBIOS hostname, currently logged username and MAC address
  • Provides a list of shares, users (detailed info), services, sessions, remote TOD (time of day) and registry information from remote computer (Windows)
  • SNMP device detection, SNMP Walk for inspecting network devices like routers, network printers and more
  • Offers alternative command line deployment tool
  • Identifies all installed Windows services
  • Support for Microsoft Windows Vista.

 

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