Bitdefender GravityZone External Attack Surface Management - Co-term EDU
Bitdefender GravityZone External Attack Surface Management provides continuous visibility and risk reduction for your organization's external digital footprint, ensuring critical assets remain protected.
- Continuous Monitoring: Gain ongoing insight into your organization's external attack surface, identifying potential exposures before they are exploited.
- Risk Prioritization: Receive actionable intelligence to focus remediation efforts on the most critical vulnerabilities impacting your business operations.
- Attack Surface Reduction: Proactively discover and address misconfigurations, exposed assets, and shadow IT that could be targeted by threat actors.
- Educational Focus: Tailored for educational institutions, this solution helps secure digital learning environments and sensitive student data.
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 presence. It identifies potential vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and exposed assets that could be exploited by cyber attackers, providing actionable insights for risk reduction.
This service is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals within educational institutions, from K-12 districts to universities, who need to maintain a secure digital environment for students, faculty, and research data. It integrates into existing security frameworks to provide a holistic view of external threats.
- External Asset Discovery: Automatically maps all internet-facing assets, including domains, subdomains, IPs, and cloud services.
- Vulnerability Identification: Detects misconfigurations, weak security controls, and known vulnerabilities on external assets.
- Threat Intelligence Integration: Correlates findings with real-time threat intelligence to understand potential attack vectors.
- Risk Scoring and Prioritization: Assigns risk scores to identified issues, enabling focused remediation efforts.
- Compliance Support: Helps educational institutions meet data privacy and security regulations by identifying and mitigating external risks.
Secure your institution's digital perimeter and protect sensitive data with continuous external threat visibility and proactive risk management.
What This Solves
Discover and Secure External Digital Assets
Enable teams to automatically discover all internet-facing assets, including shadow IT and forgotten cloud services. Streamline the process of identifying and cataloging every external point of potential exposure.
cloud-first environments, hybrid IT deployments, distributed campus networks, remote workforce enablement
Proactively Identify and Prioritize Vulnerabilities
Automate the detection of critical vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and compliance gaps across the external attack surface. Prioritize remediation efforts based on real-world threat intelligence and business impact.
risk-averse organizations, compliance-driven operations, security operations centers, incident response planning
Reduce Attack Surface and Prevent Breaches
Streamline the reduction of an organization's attack surface by addressing exposed services and weak security controls. Protect against targeted attacks by eliminating exploitable entry points.
data protection initiatives, threat hunting operations, proactive security posture management, digital transformation projects
Key Features
Continuous External Asset Discovery
Gain complete visibility into all internet-facing assets, including shadow IT and forgotten cloud services, to eliminate blind spots.
Automated Vulnerability Assessment
Identify and prioritize critical vulnerabilities and misconfigurations on external assets before attackers can exploit them.
Risk-Based Prioritization
Focus remediation efforts on the most critical risks by leveraging threat intelligence and business impact scoring.
Attack Surface Reduction Guidance
Receive actionable recommendations to shrink your organization's attackable surface and improve overall security posture.
Educational Sector Focus
Tailored insights and support to help educational institutions meet compliance requirements and protect sensitive data.
Industry Applications
Education & Research
Educational institutions manage vast amounts of sensitive student and research data, making them prime targets. Continuous external monitoring is crucial for compliance with regulations like FERPA and protecting against data breaches.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations handle protected health information (PHI) and are subject to strict HIPAA compliance. Proactive identification of external vulnerabilities is essential to prevent breaches and maintain patient trust.
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions manage sensitive customer financial data and are heavily regulated. Identifying and mitigating external attack vectors is critical for preventing fraud, protecting assets, and meeting compliance mandates like PCI DSS.
Government & Public Sector
Government agencies handle sensitive citizen data and critical infrastructure information. Proactive external threat detection is vital for national security, operational continuity, and maintaining public trust.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is External Attack Surface Management (EASM)?
EASM is a security practice focused on discovering, monitoring, and assessing an organization's external-facing digital assets. It aims to identify and mitigate potential vulnerabilities that attackers could exploit to gain unauthorized access.
How does EASM differ from internal vulnerability scanning?
Internal scanning focuses on vulnerabilities within your private network. EASM specifically targets your internet-facing assets, providing a view of your security posture from an attacker's perspective.
Is this product suitable for educational institutions?
Yes, this specific offering is co-termed for educational institutions, providing tailored benefits and addressing the unique security challenges faced by schools and universities.
Deployment & Support
Deployment Complexity
Medium — IT-assisted
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.