If you are a LAN administrator, you have to deal with lots of vulnerability issues of different machines, update them with the latest patches and ensure their upgradation to safeguard against all security threats. You cannot leave the task to the individual user of the LAN, howsoever smart and informed your users are.

It becomes very cumbersome for even a small network to fortify the security of each individual machine.

GFI LANguard™ is a complete package in itself, which scans your network machines and ports to detect, assess and correct security vulnerabilities with minimal administrative effort. It gives you a complete picture of your network set-up and helps you to maintain a secure network state faster and more effectively.

And the best part is that GFI is giving a full-featured GFI LANGuard absolutely FREE as part of its “We Care” initiative in this era of economic downturn, where network security sometimes takes a backseat in the priority list of network administrators. But remember, this FREE version is limited to only 5 IPs LAN.

Features of GFI LANGuard:

Vulnerability Scanning: GFI LanGuard makes over 15,000 vulnerability assessments of each IP in your LAN, performs multi-platform scans (Windows, Mac OS, Linux) across all environments including Virtual Machines.

After the scan, you are provided with a graphical indicator, which provides a weighted assessment of your machines alongwith links for more information about the vulnerabilities and solutions for them.

You can also create custom vulnerability checks through simple wizards. Your GFI LANguard remains always up-to-date with the latest vulnerability discovery.

Patch Management and Remediation

After the vulnerability scan, GFI LANguard gives you all the functionality and tools you need to effectively install and manage patches on all machines. GFI LANguard also allows auto-downloads of missing patches as well as patch roll-back and custom software can be deployed.

Network and Software Auditing

GFI LANguard’s Network Auditing function tells all you need to know about your network – what USB devices are connected, what software is installed, any open shares, open ports and weak passwords in use and hardware information. The solution’s in-depth reports give you an important and real-time snapshot of your network’s status. Scan results can be easily analyzed using filters and reports, enabling you to proactively secure the network by closing ports, deleting users or groups no longer in use or disabling wireless access points.

And that is not all. There are hosts of additional features including…

• Automatically checks the password policy for all machines on the network
• Checks for programs that run automatically (potential trojans)
• Finds out if the OS is advertising too much information
• Performs simultaneous scans through the multi-thread scan engine
• Provides NetBIOS hostname, currently logged username and MAC address
• Provides a list of shares, users (detailed info), services, sessions, remote TOD (time of day) and registry information from remote computer (Windows)
• SNMP device detection, SNMP Walk for inspecting network devices like routers, network printers and more
• Offers alternative command line deployment tool
• Identifies all installed Windows services
• Support for Microsoft Windows Vista

Over all, a great tool, being offered absolutely FREE for small network of upto 5 IPs.

Go grab the offer. Download GFI LANGuard absolutely FREE.