Winner of the Best of TechEd award in 2007 and highly recommended by the judges at the SC Magazine Europe awards in 2008, GFI LANguard allows administrators to scan, detect, assess and rectify vulnerabilities on their network and to secure it with minimal administrative effort. The latest version builds on an extensive feature set to make it easier for users to manage network scans, install patches and get a complete picture of the security set-up on their network.

The user interface has been redesigned to make it easier to access the main functions of vulnerability management, and in version 9 the administrator is guided through the remediation process when a problem has been identified. A new dashboard not only provides a summary of the work flow during scans but also gives an estimate of the time required to complete the scan.

GFI LANguard(TM)’s auditing function tells administrators what they need to know about their network by retrieving hardware information on memory, processors, display adapters, storage devices, motherboard details, printers, and so on. Using baseline comparisons they can now check whether any hardware was added / removed since last scan. In version 9, executive reports are now available directly from within GFI LANguard(TM).