RE: LANguard vs Nessus

["Iain Balmer" <iain_balmer () hotmail com>]

Magnus,

Been using LANGuard (full licensed version) for a few months now and its 
quite good at what it does.  Its quick and simple to use, it has a scripting 
facility if u want to look for anything specific and the patch deployment 
actually works rather nicely.  The patch deployment is as safe as it can be, 
I haven't killed any PC's so far :-)  It's great for a quick non-aggressive 
scan if you use a lot of MS clients, we've got roughly around 4000 clients. 
I haven't tried updating them all at once, that would just be silly.  But I 
have updated groups together and it worked fine. The only difference between 
the free version and the commercial one is the ability to deploy patches, 
which was the primary reason I bought it.  Its not really comparable to 
Nessus though', as it doesn't go into any huge depth of analysis. It'll tell 
you auditing isn't switched on, or what version of Windows/Linux your using 
but not the depth that Nessus goes into.  In saying that, the scripting tool 
is pretty useful for finding specific issues if you've got the time to 
tinker with it.

We use it amongst others, such as Nessus, Retina, ISS, etc, etc.... they all 
range from free to very expensive, they give different results, and you got 
to weed out some false positives but hey, we'd all be out of a job if it was 
too easy :-)

Aw' the best

Iain B

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