Bitdefender GravityZone External Attack Surface Management - Co-Term EDU
Bitdefender GravityZone External Attack Surface Management provides continuous visibility and risk assessment of your external digital footprint to proactively defend against cyber threats.
- Continuous Monitoring: Gain ongoing insight into your organization's external attack surface, identifying potential weaknesses before attackers do.
- Risk Prioritization: Automatically discover and prioritize exposed assets and vulnerabilities based on their potential impact and exploitability.
- Attack Surface Reduction: Receive actionable recommendations to close security gaps and minimize your exposure to external threats.
- Educational Institution Focus: Tailored for educational organizations, addressing unique compliance and security needs within the academic environment.
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-facing digital assets and their associated risks. It provides critical visibility into potential vulnerabilities that could be exploited by cyber adversaries, enabling proactive security measures.
This service is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in mid-market and enterprise organizations, including educational institutions, who need to understand and mitigate risks originating from their internet-exposed infrastructure. It integrates with existing security operations to provide a unified view of the threat landscape.
- External Asset Discovery: Automatically identifies all internet-facing assets, including domains, subdomains, IP addresses, and cloud services.
- Vulnerability Assessment: Scans discovered assets for misconfigurations, exposed sensitive data, and known vulnerabilities.
- Threat Intelligence Integration: Correlates findings with real-time threat intelligence to understand the exploitability of identified risks.
- Attack Path Mapping: Visualizes potential attack paths an adversary could take to reach critical internal assets.
- Compliance Reporting: Generates reports to help meet regulatory requirements and demonstrate due diligence in managing external risks.
Secure your organization's external perimeter with continuous visibility and proactive risk management, ensuring your digital assets are protected from emerging threats.
What This Solves
Identify Exposed Cloud Services and Misconfigurations
Enable teams to discover and secure internet-exposed cloud assets and identify common misconfigurations that attackers often target. Streamline the process of mapping cloud attack vectors to reduce the likelihood of breaches.
cloud-first environments, multi-cloud deployments, hybrid cloud infrastructure, SaaS application management
Automate External Vulnerability Discovery
Automate the continuous discovery of external vulnerabilities across all internet-facing assets, including shadow IT and forgotten subdomains. Streamline the remediation process by prioritizing risks based on exploitability and business impact.
distributed IT environments, organizations with rapid development cycles, businesses with complex network perimeters
Map Potential Attack Paths
Enable security teams to visualize and understand how attackers might traverse the external network to reach critical internal systems. Support proactive defense strategies by focusing on the most likely attack routes.
security operations centers, incident response planning, risk management frameworks, threat hunting initiatives
Key Features
Continuous External Asset Discovery
Gain complete visibility into all internet-facing assets, including shadow IT, to prevent attackers from exploiting unknown entry points.
Automated Vulnerability Scanning
Proactively identify and prioritize security weaknesses and misconfigurations across your external attack surface before they can be exploited.
Attack Path Visualization
Understand how attackers might breach your defenses by mapping potential attack routes, enabling targeted mitigation efforts.
Risk Prioritization Engine
Focus security resources on the most critical vulnerabilities by automatically assessing their exploitability and potential business impact.
Educational Institution Licensing
Benefit from specialized licensing and support tailored to the unique needs and budget constraints of academic organizations.
Industry Applications
Education & Research
Educational institutions manage vast amounts of sensitive student and research data, making their external-facing systems prime targets. This service helps identify and mitigate risks specific to academic networks and compliance needs.
Finance & Insurance
Financial and insurance organizations handle highly sensitive customer data and are subject to stringent regulatory compliance. Continuous monitoring of their external attack surface is critical to prevent breaches and maintain trust.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers must protect patient health information (PHI) and comply with HIPAA. Identifying and securing all external-facing assets is essential to prevent data breaches and ensure patient privacy.
Government & Public Sector
Government agencies are responsible for critical infrastructure and sensitive citizen data, making them high-value targets for cyberattacks. Proactive external attack surface management is vital for national security and public trust.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is an external attack surface?
An organization's external attack surface refers to all the points where an external attacker can attempt to enter or extract data from its systems. This includes websites, servers, cloud services, and any other internet-connected assets.
How does External Attack Surface Management (EASM) help my organization?
EASM provides continuous visibility into your external-facing digital assets, identifying vulnerabilities and misconfigurations before attackers can exploit them. This proactive approach helps reduce risk and strengthen your overall security posture.
Is this product suitable for educational institutions?
Yes, this specific offering is co-termed and tailored for educational institutions, addressing their unique security challenges and compliance requirements.
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.