Bitdefender GravityZone External Attack Surface Management
Bitdefender GravityZone External Attack Surface Management provides continuous visibility into your organization's external attack surface to identify and mitigate risks before they are exploited.
- Continuous Discovery: Access to ongoing identification of all external-facing assets and potential exposures.
- Risk Prioritization: Coverage for detailed risk assessment and prioritization based on exploitability and business impact.
- Attack Vector Simulation: Protection against simulated attacks to understand real-world threat scenarios.
- Unified Dashboard: Entitlement to a centralized view for managing and remediating identified vulnerabilities across your digital footprint.
Product Overview
Product Overview
Bitdefender GravityZone External Attack Surface Management (EASM) is a cloud-based solution designed to continuously discover, monitor, and assess an organization's external digital footprint. It identifies potential vulnerabilities and exposures that attackers could exploit, providing actionable insights to strengthen defenses.
This service is ideal for IT Managers, Security Analysts, and Business Owners in SMB and mid-market companies who need to understand and manage their organization's exposure to external threats. It integrates into existing security operations, providing a proactive layer of defense for networks, cloud environments, and digital assets.
- External Asset Discovery: Automatically maps all internet-facing assets, including domains, subdomains, IPs, and cloud services.
- Vulnerability Identification: Detects misconfigurations, exposed sensitive data, and known vulnerabilities on external assets.
- Attack Surface Visualization: Provides a clear, visual representation of the organization's attack surface and potential entry points.
- Risk Scoring and Prioritization: Assigns risk scores to identified vulnerabilities based on exploitability and potential impact.
- Remediation Guidance: Offers actionable recommendations for mitigating identified risks and closing security gaps.
Empower your IT team with proactive external threat intelligence to secure your business operations without the overhead of enterprise-grade security teams.
What This Solves
Identify External Shadow IT Assets
Enable teams to discover and inventory all internet-facing assets, including forgotten or unauthorized services. Streamline the process of mapping your complete external digital footprint for better security oversight.
organizations with distributed IT, cloud-first environments, hybrid infrastructure
Proactive Vulnerability Management
Automate the detection of external vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and exposed sensitive data across all digital assets. Support continuous security posture improvement by prioritizing and addressing risks effectively.
businesses with compliance requirements, organizations facing evolving threats, teams managing complex networks
Assess Third-Party Risk Exposure
Streamline the assessment of risks associated with third-party services and digital supply chains. Enable teams to understand potential attack vectors originating from connected external entities.
companies relying on external partners, organizations with extensive cloud integrations, businesses managing vendor risk
Key Features
Continuous External Asset Discovery
Automatically maps all internet-facing assets, ensuring no critical exposure goes unnoticed.
Attack Surface Visualization
Provides a clear, graphical representation of your external digital footprint, making complex environments understandable.
Vulnerability and Misconfiguration Detection
Identifies security weaknesses and improper settings on external assets before they can be exploited.
Risk Prioritization Engine
Helps security teams focus on the most critical threats by scoring vulnerabilities based on exploitability and business impact.
Actionable Remediation Guidance
Offers clear, step-by-step recommendations to effectively close security gaps and reduce risk.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions face stringent regulatory requirements and high stakes for data breaches, making continuous external attack surface monitoring essential for compliance and reputation protection.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations handle sensitive patient data (PHI) and must comply with HIPAA, requiring robust security measures to protect against external threats and maintain patient trust.
Retail & Hospitality
Retailers and hospitality businesses often have a large, distributed digital presence including customer-facing websites and booking systems, making them prime targets for attacks that could disrupt operations or compromise customer data.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial organizations are increasingly connecting operational technology (OT) to IT networks, creating new external attack vectors that require diligent monitoring to prevent operational disruption and intellectual property theft.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is an external attack surface?
An organization's external attack surface refers to all the components and entry points that are accessible from the internet. This includes websites, servers, cloud services, APIs, and any other digital asset exposed externally.
How does External Attack Surface Management differ from vulnerability scanning?
While vulnerability scanning focuses on known weaknesses within a network, EASM provides a broader, outside-in view of all external assets and their potential exposures, including misconfigurations and shadow IT, before a specific vulnerability is even identified.
Can this service help with compliance?
Yes, by providing visibility into external exposures and helping to remediate risks, EASM supports compliance efforts by demonstrating due diligence in managing an organization's digital footprint and reducing the likelihood of breaches.
Deployment & Support
Deployment Complexity
Low — self-service
Fulfillment
Digital Delivery
License keys / portal provisioning
Support Model
Zent Networks Managed
Renewal, add-license, and lifecycle management included
Subscription Terms
Cancellation
Cancel anytime — no charge on next cycle
You may cancel this subscription at any time. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period. You will not be charged for the following billing cycle. Access remains active through the end of the paid term.
Returns
Subscription licenses are non-refundable
Digital software licenses and SaaS subscriptions cannot be returned once activated or provisioned. Contact a Zent Networks account manager if you have questions before purchasing.