RE: RE: Scanning Microsoft and Non-Microsoft product vulnerabilities

[Eric Kollmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]

First to be fair, I have done work for GFI in the past and provide support 
on their online forums.  With that in the open I would recommend checking 
out GFI's Languard Network Security Scanner 5 (just released).

I use/have used quite a few different products though where I work at a 
university as a MS Engineer.  We use SUS, SMS 2003, ZEN Works (to push 
products), LNSS and have tried a few others, but I normally go back to 
using LNSS to verify what patches are out there and with custom alerts what 
software is installed.

Anyway, in the forums we have seen quite a few people who have pushed out 
custom patches for their Antivirus products to do full new installs, 
updated their AV defs, etc.  So the ability to deploy other products is 
there in LNSS.  Basically if the product you want to install can be 
installed in a 'silent' fashion then it can normally be pushed as a custom 
patch and installed.

To verify some of the other products you mention there you would have to 
create custom alerts (either scanning registry values or file 
version).  Depending on the product you need to verify creating that alert 
may be quite easy or could be a bit time consuming, but so far every 
product I've tried to set it up for I've been able to.  So I know it is 
possible.

Good luck on your hunt for the perfect product for your environment.

Eric


> >
> >      I need some guidance regarding a patch scanning and deployment 
> tool which
> >      includes support for Microsoft and Non-Microsoft apps (i.e. 
> Documentum, BEA,
> >      Real, Quicktime, Adobe, WinZip, Macromedia, etc.).
> >
> >      Does anyone know if a current product has this breadth of patch 
> scanning and
> >      deployment functionality?
> >
> >      Thanks in advance,
> >      Rob.
> >
> >      Robert Estelow
> >      Lockheed Martin
> >
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