Bitdefender GravityZone External Attack Surface Management - Co-term EDU
Bitdefender GravityZone External Attack Surface Management provides continuous visibility into your organization's external attack surface, identifying risks before they are exploited.
- Continuous Monitoring: Access ongoing scanning of your external digital footprint to detect new exposures.
- Risk Prioritization: Coverage for identifying and ranking vulnerabilities based on exploitability and business impact.
- Proactive Defense: Protection against unknown threats by understanding your exposure from an attacker's perspective.
- Educational Focus: Entitlement to specialized licensing and features tailored for educational institutions.
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 misconfigurations that attackers could exploit, providing actionable insights to strengthen defenses.
This service is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market organizations, including educational institutions, who need to understand and mitigate risks originating from their internet-facing assets. It integrates with existing security stacks to provide a unified view of external threats.
- External Asset Discovery: Automatically maps all internet-facing assets, including shadow IT and forgotten subdomains.
- Vulnerability Identification: Detects misconfigurations, exposed sensitive data, and exploitable vulnerabilities.
- Attack Path Simulation: Visualizes potential attack routes an adversary could take.
- Risk Scoring and Prioritization: Assigns risk scores to identified issues based on severity and exploitability.
- Continuous Monitoring: Provides ongoing visibility and alerts for changes in the attack surface.
Bitdefender GravityZone EASM offers educational institutions a clear view of their external risks, enabling proactive security management without enterprise-level complexity.
What This Solves
Identify Shadow IT and Unknown Assets
Enable teams to discover all internet-facing assets, including forgotten servers and unauthorized cloud services. Streamline the process of mapping your organization's complete external digital footprint to prevent security gaps.
cloud-first environments, hybrid IT infrastructure, decentralized IT management, rapid growth organizations, remote workforce enablement
Detect External Vulnerabilities and Misconfigurations
Automate the identification of exploitable vulnerabilities and common misconfigurations across all discovered external assets. Reduce the risk of breaches by proactively addressing security weaknesses before attackers can find them.
compliance-driven operations, risk-averse IT departments, organizations with sensitive data, businesses with public-facing services, distributed enterprise networks
Visualize and Prioritize Attack Paths
Streamline security operations by visualizing potential attack paths an adversary could take through your external assets. Enable teams to prioritize remediation efforts based on the most critical threats to your business.
security operations centers, incident response planning, threat intelligence integration, proactive security posture management, resource-constrained security teams
Key Features
Continuous External Asset Discovery
Gain complete visibility into all internet-facing assets, including shadow IT, to prevent unknown exposures.
Automated Vulnerability Scanning
Proactively identify and prioritize exploitable vulnerabilities and misconfigurations across your digital perimeter.
Attack Path Simulation
Understand how attackers might breach your network by visualizing potential attack routes.
Risk-Based Prioritization
Focus remediation efforts on the most critical risks that pose the greatest threat to your organization.
Co-term Educational Licensing
Benefit from specialized licensing and pricing designed for the unique needs and budgets of educational institutions.
Industry Applications
Education & Research
Educational institutions manage vast amounts of sensitive student and research data, making them prime targets. EASM helps identify external risks to these critical assets and provides specialized licensing for academic environments.
Finance & Insurance
Financial organizations handle highly sensitive customer data and are subject to strict regulatory compliance. EASM helps identify external exposures that could lead to data breaches and regulatory fines.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers must protect patient health information (PHI) and comply with HIPAA. EASM helps identify external vulnerabilities that could compromise patient data or disrupt critical healthcare services.
Government & Public Sector
Government agencies manage critical infrastructure and sensitive citizen data, making them targets for nation-state and criminal actors. EASM provides visibility into external attack vectors to secure public services.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is External Attack Surface Management (EASM)?
EASM is a cybersecurity discipline focused on discovering, monitoring, and assessing an organization's internet-facing assets and potential vulnerabilities. It helps identify risks from an attacker's perspective before they can be exploited.
How does EASM differ from internal vulnerability scanning?
Internal scanning focuses on vulnerabilities within your private network. EASM specifically targets your external footprint – assets visible to the public internet – providing a crucial layer of defense against external threats.
Who should use Bitdefender GravityZone EASM?
IT Managers, cybersecurity teams, and IT professionals in SMBs and mid-market companies, particularly educational institutions, can benefit from understanding and managing their external attack surface to prevent 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.