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Network security scanner and patch management What’s new with GFI LanGuard® 2014 R2

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Network securityscanner and patch management

What’s new with

GFI LanGuard® 2014 R2

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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 isGFI LanGuard?

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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?

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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 scanand remediation

performance» Through usage of agents and relay agents

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New features ofGFI LanGuard 2014 R2

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Fedora Linux® patch managementsupport

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.

Jesmond Darmanin
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Please review our reference materials at www.gfi.com and http://partners.gfi.com/resources

Contact your GFI channel account manager for help in your sales efforts.