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 critical vulnerabilities before attackers can exploit them.
- Continuous Monitoring: Access ongoing scanning of your external-facing assets for misconfigurations and exposures.
- Risk Prioritization: Coverage for detailed risk scoring and actionable insights to focus remediation efforts.
- Attack Surface Visibility: Protection against unknown or forgotten digital assets that could be exploited.
- Educational Focus: Entitlement to specialized 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 assess an organization's external digital footprint. It identifies vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and potential attack vectors that could be exploited by malicious actors, providing actionable intelligence to prioritize and remediate risks.
This service is ideal for IT Managers, Security Analysts, and IT Professionals within educational institutions of all sizes. It integrates into existing security stacks, offering a proactive layer of defense by mapping and securing the organization's online presence, from web applications to cloud services.
- External Asset Discovery: Automatically maps all internet-facing assets, including domains, subdomains, IP addresses, and cloud services.
- Vulnerability Identification: Detects misconfigurations, exposed sensitive data, and exploitable weaknesses across the attack surface.
- Risk Prioritization Engine: Assigns risk scores to identified issues based on exploitability and potential impact.
- Threat Intelligence Integration: Correlates findings with real-time threat intelligence to understand emerging attack trends.
- Compliance Reporting: Generates reports to aid in meeting regulatory and security framework requirements.
Secure your institution's digital perimeter and gain peace of mind with continuous external threat visibility.
What This Solves
Identify Unknown External Assets
Enable teams to discover and inventory all internet-facing assets, including shadow IT and forgotten cloud services. Streamline the process of mapping your organization's complete external digital footprint.
cloud-first environments, hybrid IT infrastructure, distributed campuses, remote workforce enablement, digital transformation initiatives
Detect External Vulnerabilities
Automate the detection of critical vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and exposed sensitive data across your external attack surface. Prioritize remediation efforts based on real-world exploitability and potential impact.
security operations centers, incident response planning, vulnerability management programs, compliance audits, risk assessment frameworks
Proactive Risk Mitigation
Streamline the process of understanding and mitigating external cyber risks before they can be exploited. Gain actionable intelligence to focus security resources on the most critical threats.
cybersecurity strategy development, security awareness training, threat hunting operations, digital asset protection, security posture management
Key Features
Continuous External Asset Discovery
Automatically maps all internet-facing assets, ensuring no critical systems are overlooked.
Attack Surface Visualization
Provides a clear, actionable map of your organization's external digital footprint and potential entry points for attackers.
Risk-Based Prioritization
Helps security teams focus on the most critical vulnerabilities by assigning risk scores based on exploitability and impact.
Misconfiguration Detection
Identifies common security flaws in cloud services, web applications, and network devices before they can be exploited.
Educational Institution Licensing
Offers tailored pricing and features suitable for the unique needs and budgets of academic organizations.
Industry Applications
Education & Research
Educational institutions manage vast amounts of sensitive data and have complex, often distributed, IT environments, making external attack surface visibility crucial for protecting student records, research data, and institutional reputation.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations handle highly sensitive patient data (PHI) and face stringent compliance requirements like HIPAA, necessitating robust security measures to protect against breaches of their external-facing systems.
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions are prime targets for cyberattacks due to the valuable data they hold and are subject to strict regulatory compliance, requiring continuous monitoring of their external attack surface to prevent fraud and data theft.
Government & Public Sector
Government agencies manage critical infrastructure and sensitive citizen data, making them targets for nation-state actors and requiring strong cybersecurity defenses to maintain public trust and operational continuity.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is an external attack surface?
An organization's external attack surface includes all internet-facing assets and potential entry points that cyber attackers could target. This can range from websites and servers to cloud services and employee devices connected to the internet.
How does External Attack Surface Management help educational institutions?
For educational institutions, EASM provides visibility into digital assets that might be forgotten or misconfigured, protecting sensitive student and research data. It helps manage the risks associated with a large, often distributed, IT environment.
Is this a replacement for internal vulnerability scanning?
No, External Attack Surface Management complements internal vulnerability scanning by focusing specifically on what is exposed to the public internet. It provides a different, but equally critical, perspective on an organization's security posture.
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.