LANguard Network Security Scanner 8.0 Build 20080326

LANguard Network Security Scanner - Network vulnerability scanning, patch

Network vulnerability scanning, patch management and auditing


Checks your network for all potential methods that a hacker might use to attack your network.


It scans entire networks and provides NETBIOS information for each computer such as hostname, shares, logged on user name.


It does OS detection, password strength testing, detects registry issues and more. Reports are outputted in HTML.


Note : The scanning features of this product are FREE for non commercial use. Commercial users can buy the full version and also receive extra features.


LANguard Network Security Scanner features:


- Support for OVAL: GFI LANguard N.S.S. 8 can now import and check networks using OVAL definitions. This database is the standard used to define the tests needed to check if weaknesses are present on a system. For more information on the OVAL database please refer to http://oval.mitre.org.

- Improvements to patch management: New patch management features contribute to an overall improvement of the patch management module. New features include patch rollback, multilingual patch autodownload, missing Windows Installer 3 notification, patch sort by severity and detection engine memory-use optimizations.

- Security Scanner optimizations: IT administrators now have the ability to configure up to 10 scanning threads. This enables them fully utilize their hardware and network infrastructure’s potential

- Scheduled scan enhancements: GFI LANguard N.S.S. 8 keeps track of computers that are not scanned (such as laptops disconnected from the network) and performs scans on them as soon as these become available.

- Faster retrieval of Linux data: Linux data retrieval is now around 20 times faster than the previous version of GFI LANguard N.S.S.

- Revamped UI: GFI LANguard N.S.S. 8 is updated with cosmetic changes to the User Interface and Icons. New buttons were added and the GUI is re-organized with the categorization all the Main, Configuration and Tools options in three separate tabs. A restructure of the security scanner tree now also includes an improved categorization of the retrieved information, assisting users in browsing through the records retrieved.

- Unicode support: You can now scan multi-language networks from one central location and have all characters displayed correctly, whatever the language. For example, you can scan, from a Windows XP English Edition machine, computers having Chinese and Greek editions and everything will be displayed correctly.

- New scanning options: Dependencies on administrative shares have been removed through the addition of a new option in the scanning profiles. GFI LANguard N.S.S. now temporarily creates and uses a custom hidden share during scans.

- Remote registry scanning: In GFI LANguard N.S.S. 8 an option was added which, when enabled and if the scan is performed with proper rights, will temporarily start remote registry on the remote machine during the scan.

- Advanced scan range options: Added support for scanning CIDR subnets and the ability to specify addresses that are to be excluded from the scanning of a previously specified IP address range.

- Debug Enabled Warning Message: A warning message now lets the user know that the scanning speed is lower when debug is on.




Limitations:


- 10 days trial

LANguard Network Security Scanner 8.0 Build 20080326 is licensed as Trial for the Windows operating system / platform. LANguard Network Security Scanner is provided as a free to try download for all software users (Trial).