Bitdefender GravityZone External Attack Surface Management - Co-Term EDU
Bitdefender GravityZone External Attack Surface Management provides continuous visibility into your organization's external digital footprint to proactively identify and mitigate cyber risks.
- Continuous Monitoring: Access ongoing scanning of your external attack surface for vulnerabilities and misconfigurations.
- Risk Prioritization: Coverage for detailed risk scoring and prioritization to focus remediation efforts on the most critical threats.
- Proactive Defense: Protection against unknown external threats by understanding your exposure before attackers do.
- Educational Focus: Entitlement to specialized features and licensing 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 manage an organization's external digital assets and their associated risks. It provides a unified view of your organization's internet-facing attack surface, identifying vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and potential entry points for cyber threats.
This service is ideal for IT Managers, Security Analysts, and Business Owners within educational institutions of all sizes. It integrates into existing security frameworks, offering critical intelligence to understand and reduce exposure without requiring extensive on-premises infrastructure.
- External Asset Discovery: Automatically identifies all internet-facing assets, including domains, subdomains, IP addresses, and cloud services.
- Vulnerability Identification: Scans for common web vulnerabilities, exposed sensitive data, and shadow IT assets.
- Attack Surface Visualization: Provides an interactive map of your external attack surface, highlighting critical risks.
- Threat Intelligence Integration: Correlates identified risks with real-world threat actor tactics, techniques, and procedures.
- Prioritized Remediation Guidance: Offers actionable recommendations to fix identified vulnerabilities and reduce exposure.
Bitdefender GravityZone EASM empowers educational institutions to gain critical visibility and proactively manage their external digital risks effectively.
What This Solves
Identify Shadow IT and Unmanaged Assets
Enable teams to discover and catalog all internet-facing assets, including those not officially managed by IT. This prevents unauthorized or forgotten systems from becoming entry points for attackers.
cloud-first environments, hybrid IT infrastructure, decentralized IT management, rapid growth organizations
Proactive Vulnerability Management
Streamline the process of identifying and prioritizing external vulnerabilities across domains, subdomains, and IP addresses. This allows for focused remediation efforts before threats can be exploited.
security operations centers, compliance-driven organizations, IT risk management programs, distributed workforces
Reduce External Attack Surface Exposure
Automate the continuous monitoring of your organization's external digital footprint for misconfigurations and exposures. This minimizes the attack surface available to malicious actors.
organizations with significant online presence, businesses undergoing digital transformation, companies with remote employees
Key Features
Continuous External Asset Discovery
Automatically maps all internet-facing assets, providing a complete picture of your digital exposure.
Attack Surface Visualization
Offers an interactive map to understand relationships between assets and identify critical risk areas.
Vulnerability and Misconfiguration Detection
Identifies common web vulnerabilities, exposed data, and insecure configurations before attackers can exploit them.
Risk Prioritization Engine
Scores and ranks identified risks based on exploitability and potential impact, guiding remediation efforts.
Threat Intelligence Correlation
Connects identified exposures to real-world threat actor activity for better context and response.
Industry Applications
Education & Research
Educational institutions often manage vast amounts of sensitive student and research data, making them prime targets. EASM helps identify and secure their extensive external digital footprint, including research portals and online learning platforms, ensuring compliance with regulations like FERPA.
Government & Public Sector
Public sector organizations face stringent security requirements and a high volume of cyber threats. EASM provides critical visibility into their external-facing systems, helping to protect citizen data and essential services from attack.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers handle highly sensitive patient data (PHI) and must adhere to strict regulations like HIPAA. EASM helps identify and secure external digital assets that could be targeted for data breaches or service disruption.
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions manage sensitive customer financial data and are heavily regulated. EASM assists in identifying and mitigating external risks to protect against fraud, data theft, and service disruption, supporting compliance with regulations like GLBA.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is External Attack Surface Management (EASM)?
EASM is a cybersecurity discipline focused on discovering, monitoring, and reducing an organization's internet-facing digital footprint. It helps identify potential vulnerabilities and risks before attackers can exploit them.
How does Bitdefender GravityZone EASM differ from internal vulnerability scanners?
Internal scanners focus on your network's interior. EASM specifically targets your organization's external presence on the internet, revealing what attackers see from the outside.
Is this product suitable for educational institutions?
Yes, this specific co-term education offering is tailored for educational institutions, providing specialized licensing and features to address their unique cybersecurity needs.
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.