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GFI LANguard: Your Comprehensive Network Security Scanner Solution

GFI LANguard is a powerful Network Security Scanner (NSS) that identifies vulnerabilities in your network, assessing the security of your operating systems and applications. It detects potential attack vectors, including outdated security patches, open shares, and weak passwords. With its port-scanning engine, LANguard audits services and ports to reveal risks like Trojans and unnecessary shares. After applying necessary security measures, LANguard re-evaluates the system to create detailed HTML reports, ensuring your network maintains optimal security and compliance.

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GFI LANguard: Your Comprehensive Network Security Scanner Solution

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  1. GFI LANguard CIS 460 – Network Design Seminar Network Security Scanner Tool

  2. GFI LANguard OVERVIEW • Network Security Scanner (N.S.S.) checks network for all potential methods that ahacker might use to attack it. • By analyzing the operating system and the applications running on yournetwork, identifies possible security holes. CIS 460 - Oscar Vazquez

  3. Scanned Vulnerabilities • Servicepack level & security patches • Windows NT/2000/2003/XP • Microsoft Office • Microsoft Exchange Server • Microsoft SQL Server • virus updates or client software deployment • Open shares • administrative and printer shares (C$,D$, ADMIN$) • shows you who has access to the share. • Open ports • Port-scanning engine, allowing you to scan your network • TCP/IP and UDP • Services • Identifies well-known services (www / FTP / telnet / SMTP... ) CIS 460 - Oscar Vazquez

  4. Scanned Vulnerabilities (Cont…) • Applications • Deploy 3rd party software or patches network-wide • Update custom or non-Microsoft software • Virus updates • Checks for programs that run automatically (potential Trojans) • Key registry entries • Security auditing policies • Start up • Log system • Weak passwords • Maximum password age • Password history • Minimum password length CIS 460 - Oscar Vazquez

  5. Basic Settings and Use CIS 460 - Oscar Vazquez

  6. Scanned Results Nodes by IP HTML Report Comparisons

  7. Basic Settings and Use CIS 460 - Oscar Vazquez

  8. HTML Report CIS 460 - Oscar Vazquez

  9. Basic Settings and Use CIS 460 - Oscar Vazquez

  10. Basic Settings and Use CIS 460 - Oscar Vazquez

  11. Practical Demo • LAB Setting • Windows 2000 is installed from scratch on the Target box • LANGUARD app. is installed on Administrator machine • Both PCs are connected to the same network segment • Run on Target NSS Tool just after W 2000 installation • Create a Report • Applied parches • Applied security policies • Shutdown ports and services • Password settings CIS 460 - Oscar Vazquez

  12. Practical Demo (Cont…) • After complete the OS Hardening • Run NSS Tool on Target machine Again • Create a HTML report CIS 460 - Oscar Vazquez

  13. Practical Demo Conclusion • The initial operating system installed showed many vulnerabilities. • The computer could be very easy compromised by a hacker. • LANGuard is an excellent tool to test the security level of an entire network of computers. • Lots of vulnerability can easily be fixed updating software applications and the operating system • In addition to maintain the system up-to-date, is mandatory the execution of operating system hardening to customize the security level of the computer according to the level of the preferred functionality. CIS 460 - Oscar Vazquez

  14. LANGuard Features review… • Network-wide patch management • Check for unused user accounts on workstations • Audit your network for security vulnerabilities • Detect unnecessary shares, open ports & unused user accounts on workstations • Check for and deploy missing security patches & service packs in OS & Office. • Automatically alerts new security holes • Price $495 for 100 IPs, $995 for unlimited IPs. CIS 460 - Oscar Vazquez

  15. LANGuard Questions…?? CIS 460 - Oscar Vazquez

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