GFI LanGuard Network Scanner

Hello Everyone!

As discussed in my previous blog what is GFI Languard and how to install the GFI LanGuard. Today we will learn how to use the GFI Languard Network Scanner. GFI LanGuard is a network audit and patch management solution that helps user to easily manage and maintain end point protection every devices within Local Area Network. It automatically discover all the elements of your Network: computer, mobile, tablet, printer, servers, virtual machine, router-switches and laptop etc.

Features of GFI Languard

As we see there are so many features of GFI Languard we will use some of them.

Lets Begin!

Launch the GFI Languard Network Scanner, GFI Languard dashboard.

Configure the scan, click on scan tab to scan the network or system. Here I choose localhost in which my GFI Languard is running.

Click on profile — there are 20 types of scanning, choose your option whatever you want to scan like full scan, full vulnerability assessment, hardware audit etc. Here I choose the full scan. When you finish the scan setting, click on the scan button.

Now it starts scanning the localhost — it will take some time, be patient until the scan finishes.

Once the scan is completed, check the scanning result and vulnerabilities. Click on localhost on the left side of the interface, then click on vulnerability assessment, then check the vulnerability: High, Low, Potential, Missing etc.

Click on high security vulnerability and check — in my case autorun is enabled, which is a high security vulnerability. You can check all the vulnerabilities like High, Low, Potential etc.

After the vulnerability assessment, check the Network and Software Audit. Click on it and check one by one — ports and TCP/UDP port issues.

Click on hardware to check all hardware information one by one: Network Device, USB device, Processor, Motherboard, Memory, Storage details etc.

After the hardware information, you can check the software information — General Application information, what applications are running in the system.

A system information option is also available. Click on it to check the system's information, and click on users to check user information.

Click on Dashboard then Overview for an overview of the scan, with tabs for computer information, History, Vulnerability, Ports etc.

Click on patch to check how to patch the vulnerabilities.

Finally, generate the report of the complete scan. Click on the report tab and select the report type — computer security report, vulnerability status, patch status etc. — then click generate report.

You can generate reports according to security standards like PCI DSS Compliance, HIPAA, SOX, GLBA, SIPA, ISO/IEC 27001, FISMA etc. Click on the security standard (in my case PCI DSS Compliance), then Audit Policy, then generate report.

Thanks For Reading!