GFI LanGuard

Kommentare: Languard is a great product to deploy patches throughout distributed environments. Easy interface, user friendly, nice reports, automation and scheduling of tasks, auto remediation, etc. It also serves as a scanner to check for vulnerabilities, not only software-related but miss-configurations and other things that can be mitigated. It can be used to scan everything.

Vorteile: non-stop ongoing patching and remediation, based on locations, settings. Relays can be set to distribute the load. One single pane of glass for all patch-related information. I heard new version is web based and has multiple administrators.

Nachteile: Currently one single console user at a time can use the system and will have to RDP into the server, so if you are running a task and another person logs on to the server, it will bring a duplicate session but will not work. The new version is supposed to fix this (hopefully). Also, need faster convergence on reports coming back from agents.

Vorteile: Product is easy to use once you get it going. Wide verity of scan tools to scan your network and keep track of patch management

Nachteile: The wide spectrum of scans on a large scale is slow and can get a bit overwhelming and time consuming

Kommentare: Looked great out of the box but lacked correct reporting. We moved to another SIEM because of false reporting.

Vorteile: The dashboard was great. It provides all kinds of information and setup and configuration are fairly straight forward.

Nachteile: What I didn't like was the reporting accuracy. GFI vulnerability scanner was reporting false positive vulnerabilities. We would look at a system GFI reported as requiring a patch and we would find the patch already deployed on the system. This created more work for us and caused us to chase down a lot of false positives

Kommentare: lots of man hours saved using this application to patch machines across the network

Vorteile: The software provides automated re-starts , patching of third party software and providing a list of users on the domain

Nachteile: reports are not the best, the next version should have the input for better reporting.
It is suggested that this area be looked at.

Vorteile: The ability to do multi patching and updates simultaneously. I like the reporting feature where you are able to generate reports and send patches to the client without interrupting work.

Nachteile: The unnual renewal and maintenance cost. This may need to be reviewed as the ability to added users are sometimes limited by this.