 GFI LanGuard - Your virtual IT security consultant. This step by step guide helps you understand how you can maintain a secure and compliant network with minimal IT effort.   GFI LanGuard helps SMEs cope with the risks posed from a wide range of network devices, mobile devices and third party apps. GFI LanGuard  provides the ability to conduct vulnerability assessments of those devices connected to popular business services like Exchange servers, Office 365(TM), Google Apps(TM) and Apple(R) Profile Manager. In addition, GFI LanGuard provides automatic patch management for mixed network environments.

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 GFI LanGuard provides extensive reporting capability that allows a user to run preconfigured or customized reports based on their specific requirements, ranging from an executive network security overview and full technical audit to dedicated reports for different compliance regulations, such as PCI DSS, HIPAA, PSN CoCo and more. This short video shows you how to use the reporting features to best effect.

How to use the reporting features of GFI LanGuard

 This short video shows a GFI LanGuard user how to use the 'Remediate Section' to take actions such as deploying or rolling back updates (both security and non-security ones), deploying custom software, scripts and uninstalling unauthorized applications.

How to use the remediate section with GFI LanGuard

 GFI LanGuard provides a powerful Dashboard that enables IT Administrators to view the devices in their network and the mobile devices attached to the Microsoft Exchange servers, providing information as to their security status, an overview of their vulnerabilities, patch status, open ports, software and applications which are installed, the status of critical security applications like antivirus, antispyware and firewalls, amongst others. This short video shows a user how to use the dashboard.

How to use the Dashboard to analyze the scan results with GFI LanGuard

 GFI LanGuard not only provides visibility as to what applications are installed on network devices, but it also provides the capability to uninstall and remove unauthorized applications (such as games, audio/media streaming applications, illegal sharing/P2P applications) from machines and the network.  This short video describes how users can do this. 

How to uninstall unauthorized applications with GFI LanGuard

 Users of GFI LanGuard can scan their network and network devices in one of two ways: an agentless scan, or an agent-based scan. The short video shows users to perform a remote agentless scan.

How to perform a remote agentless scan with GFI LanGuard

 This short video shows a user how to configure GFI LanGuard to generate reports which can be scheduled to be run on a regular basis, and to be automatically saved on the disk in a specified location or sent to an chosen email recipient.

How to send reports to email recipients on a regular schedule with GFI LanGuard

 GFI LanGuard enables IT administrators to both detect which mobile devices are connected to a network, and discover what updates are currently available for the most popular mobile operating systems. Using GFI LanGuard IT administrators can then notify device owners of the latest updates available for the operating systems installed on their devices, and can provide an email template to help IT administrators do this. This short video shows users how this can been done.

How to send email notifications to mobile device owners with GFI LanGuard

 This short video shows a user how to select a scan target - it can be a local computer, a remote computer, a domain or a workgroup, an Active Directory, organizational unit or an IP address range - create a scan profile and execute or schedule the scan using GFI LanGuard.

How to perform remote network security audits with GFI LanGuard

 Not only does GFI LanGuard provide IT administrators with the ability to discover which devices are connected to the network, it can also provide granular visibility of the applications that are either currently installed on network devices, or even have been in the past. GFI LanGuard ships with a number of predefined software categories that can help to easily locate and group applications by functional category, e.g. antivirus or firewalls. This short video shows a user how to do this.

How to find what machines have a specific application installed with GFI LanGuard

 Watch this video to learn what to do once you've installed GFI LanGuard. 

I have installed GFI LanGuard, now what?

 GFI LanGuard provides administrators with the ability to monitor the data sharing behavior of employees within an organization, by informing administrators which computers have administrative shares enabled and which do not, and giving details of share permissions per computer. This short video shows how this can be done with GFI LanGuard: simply and effectively.

How to find what is shared on your network and is accessible to everyone with GFI LanGuard

 GFI LanGuard provides an audit to IT administrators of the devices in their network, and can graphically map which devices require updates to be deployed to them. To deploy missing security and non-security updates for Windows, Mac OS and Linux operating systems, and third party applications, IT administrators can pick which patches to deploy to which devices, and set up automated processes that will manage the process at pre-specified times, minimizing the impact to end-users. This short video shows you how to do this.

How to deploy missing patches with GFI LanGuard

 GFI LanGuard provides essential security insight to IT Administrators, enabling them to quickly audit their network and discover which ports are open and being used per machine. In networks where GFI LanGuard agents have been installed on machines, additional valuable security information can be retrieved such as the executable that opened the port. This is useful when trying to determine if a certain port is opened by a valid service or not. This short video shows a user how to do easily audit open ports on machines in their network and discover such information.

How to find what machines have a specific port open with GFI LanGuard

 This short video shows how to use GFI LanGuard to automatically deploy patches to devices in the network, that have already been tested or manually approved for distribution.

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