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Overview
New features of GFI LanGuard 2014 R2
GFI LanGuard 2014 features
How does GFI LanGuard work?
What is GFI LanGuard?
What’s new with GFI LanGuard 2014 R2
Reference materials
Summary
New features demonstration
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What is GFI LanGuard?
Acts as a virtual security consultant providing three vital security services:
»Patch management
»Vulnerability assessment
»Network/software auditing
Scans, detects, assesses and rectifies security vulnerabilities on the network
Scans for missing security patches, service packs, open shares, open ports,
unused user accounts and more
Uses powerful reporting to identify issues and verify security status
Provides a complete network security overview with minimal administrative effort
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How does GFI LanGuard work?
Scan
Analyze
Remediate
Install
Takes only a few
minutes to be up
and running
Agent-less or
agent-based
Identify assets
(including mobile
devices), find
vulnerabilities, missing
patches, open ports,
services, hardware
and software, etc.
Vulnerability
level assigned to
each computer
Reports, results
filtering, network
changes history
Check external
references
Deploy missing updates,
uninstall applications,
deploy custom scripts,
open remote desktop
connections, etc.
Definitions for vulnerabilities
and patches are
continuously updated from
GFI®
servers to report and
remediate latest threats
Deploy agents
(agent-less)
Powerful
interactive
dashboard
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GFI LanGuard 2014 features
Patch automation
Vulnerability
assessment
Integration
Powerful
» Microsoft®, Mac OS® and major Linux operating systems
» Microsoft and other popular third-party applications
» Security and non-security updates
» More than 4000 critical security applications
» Interactive dashboard
» Workstations, laptops, servers, mobile devices and a wide range of
network devices such as printers, switches and routers
» Now checking for up to 50,000 vulnerabilities
Dedicated reports » For PCI DSS, HIPAA, PSN CoCo and other regulations
Improved scan
and remediation
performance
» Through usage of agents and relay agents
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Fedora Linux®
patch management
support
Enhanced mobile
device scanning
What’s new with
GFI LanGuard 2014 R2?
Extended
support for network
devices vulnerability
assessment
FCC CIPA
compliance reports.
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What’s new with GFI LanGuard 2014 R2?
GFI LanGuard 2014 R2 adds support for vulnerability assessment of the devices from the
following vendors:
» 3Com,
» Dell
» SonicWALL
» Juniper
» NETGEAR
» Nortel
» Alcatel
» IBM
» Linksys
Extended support for network devices vulnerability assessment
Over 2,600 network devices are now supported and the number increases on
a continuous basis.
List of supported devices is available here: www.gfi.com/languard-supported-devices
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What’s new with GFI LanGuard 2014 R2?
Mobile device scanning enhancement
Added support for the following mobile device management sources:
»Office 365
»Google Apps
»Apple Profiles Manager
Customers that don’t have a Microsoft Exchange server on premise, but rely on the cloud
based platforms above can now use GFI LanGuard to do a vulnerability assessment of the
devices that connect to these services.
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What’s new with GFI LanGuard 2014 R2?
Agent-less detection of smartphones and tablets that connect to the company’s Microsoft Exchange
servers
Patch management for Fedora
With this version GFI LanGuard will start supporting automated patch management for
Fedora, along with the existing support for Red Hat® Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu®, SUSE®,
openSUSE®, CentOS® and Debian®. Click here for a full list of supported operating
systems.
This feature strengths GFI LanGuard ability to patch all Windows, Linux and OS X machines
in the network from a single central console.
Agent-less detection of smartphones and tablets that connect to the company’s Microsoft Exchange
servers
FCC CIPA compliance reports
Dedicated reports for a new regulation: Children's Internet Protection Act. Support for CIPA
ensures for GFI LanGuard easier access to schools and libraries in US.
Chinese localisation
GFI LanGuard 2014 R2 is now available in Chinese Traditional and Simplified.
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Please review our reference materials at
www.gfi.com and http://partners.gfi.com/resources
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for help in your sales efforts.
Notas del editor
Apple Mac OS X patching: Manage patch management from a single console for both Microsoft operating systems and Apple Mac OS X systems.
Reporting improvements: Dedicated reports for additional compliance standards, such as: Sarbanes–Oxley Act (SOX), Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act (GLB/GLBA), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Government Connect Secure Extranet - Code of Connection (GCSx CoCo).
Apple Mac OS X patching: Manage patch management from a single console for both Microsoft operating systems and Apple Mac OS X systems.
Reporting improvements: Dedicated reports for additional compliance standards, such as: Sarbanes–Oxley Act (SOX), Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act (GLB/GLBA), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Government Connect Secure Extranet - Code of Connection (GCSx CoCo).