Neon Software Updates LANsurveyor to Address Regulatory Requirements and Pass Security Audits
Neon Software, Inc. announced today the immediate availability of LANsurveyor version 9 for Windows. LANsurveyor 9 allows network administrators to properly safeguard and monitor their networks by incorporating network documentation, asset management, network monitoring, and vulnerability management features.
Regulatory acts and guidelines, including Gramm-Leach Bliley, HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, and Basel II, require organizations to restrict access to confidential information and/or enforce organization-wide security policies. Customers use LANsurveyor to first identify what is on their network and then safeguard and monitor the network.
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“Complying with regulations has become a big worry in IT departments—LANsurveyor makes it much easier to comply with those requirements,” said Mark Nelson, IS network technician at InCyte Pathology. “During our last on-site inspection, the inspectors were very excited to see how LANsurveyor monitors our network. Several of the inspectors are IS administrators themselves, and they asked where they could get LANsurveyor.”
LANsurveyor 9 expands its award-winning features to include better network diagrams, enhanced alerts, additional reporting and monitoring capabilities. The new version of LANsurveyor builds upon the success of LANsurveyor 8, which experienced an 875 percent increase in sales in the fourth quarter of 2004 over the year before. LANsurveyor is used by government, education, and small- to medium-sized businesses and corporations with thousands of nodes.
Dorian Cougias, president, Network Frontiers and author of Systems Continuity Plan Pro, explained there are three problems most organizations have when securing critical systems: “First an organization must identify all the systems within an organization, then it must determine which of those systems are critical to the operation and finally there must be an understanding of what would be required to get each of those systems running again if there is a disaster or security breach. I recommend LANsurveyor because it helps solve all three problems.”
LANsurveyor 9 integrates with vulnerability assessment tools from Microsoft, Symantec and Qualys through LANsurveyor’s Continuous Scan Intrusion Detection System add-on. Continuous Scan can now identify stealth computers and log information about possible network threats as well.
Major New Features in LANsurveyor 9
-- Map Levels
-- Show/Hide Nodes
-- Find Stealth Nodes
-- Log Nodes On/Off Network
-- Vulnerability Assessment
-- Monitor TCP-based Applications
-- Map Link Speed
-- New Alerts
-- SMTP Authentication
Availability and Pricing
LANsurveyor 9 is now available starting at US$495 from Neon Software resellers, distributors, and the Neon Software web site. The Continuous Scan IDS option is $495.
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