GFI LanGuard - Your virtual IT security consultant. This step by step guide helps you understand how you can maintain a secure and compliant network with minimal IT effort.

 

GFI LanGuard helps SMEs cope with the risks posed from a wide range of network devices, mobile devices and third party apps. GFI LanGuard  provides the ability to conduct vulnerability assessments of those devices connected to popular business services like Exchange servers, Office 365(TM), Google Apps(TM) and Apple(R) Profile Manager. In addition, GFI LanGuard provides automatic patch management for mixed network environments.

GFI LanGuard provides extensive reporting capability that allows a user to run preconfigured or customized reports based on their specific requirements, ranging from an executive network security overview and full technical audit to dedicated reports for different compliance regulations, such as PCI DSS, HIPAA, PSN CoCo and more. This short video shows you how to use the reporting features to best effect.

This short video shows a GFI LanGuard user how to use the 'Remediate Section' to take actions such as deploying or rolling back updates (both security and non-security ones), deploying custom software, scripts and uninstalling unauthorized applications.

GFI LanGuard provides a powerful Dashboard that enables IT Administrators to view the devices in their network and the mobile devices attached to the Microsoft Exchange servers, providing information as to their security status, an overview of their vulnerabilities, patch status, open ports, software and applications which are installed, the status of critical security applications like antivirus, antispyware and firewalls, amongst others. This short video shows a user how to use the dashboard.

GFI LanGuard not only provides visibility as to what applications are installed on network devices, but it also provides the capability to uninstall and remove unauthorized applications (such as games, audio/media streaming applications, illegal sharing/P2P applications) from machines and the network.  This short video describes how users can do this.

This short video shows a user how to configure GFI LanGuard to generate reports which can be scheduled to be run on a regular basis, and to be automatically saved on the disk in a specified location or sent to an chosen email recipient.

GFI LanGuard enables IT administrators to both detect which mobile devices are connected to a network, and discover what updates are currently available for the most popular mobile operating systems. Using GFI LanGuard IT administrators can then notify device owners of the latest updates available for the operating systems installed on their devices, and can provide an email template to help IT administrators do this. This short video shows users how this can been done.

This short video shows a user how to select a scan target - it can be a local computer, a remote computer, a domain or a workgroup, an Active Directory, organizational unit or an IP address range - create a scan profile and execute or schedule the scan using GFI LanGuard.

Users of GFI LanGuard can scan their network and network devices in one of two ways: an agentless scan, or an agent-based scan. The short video shows users to perform a remote agentless scan.

Not only does GFI LanGuard provide IT administrators with the ability to discover which devices are connected to the network, it can also provide granular visibility of the applications that are either currently installed on network devices, or even have been in the past. GFI LanGuard ships with a number of predefined software categories that can help to easily locate and group applications by functional category, e.g. antivirus or firewalls. This short video shows a user how to do this.