Bitdefender GravityZone External Attack Surface Management - Co-term EDU
Bitdefender GravityZone External Attack Surface Management provides continuous visibility and risk prioritization for your organization's external attack surface, ensuring proactive defense against emerging threats.
- Continuous Discovery: Access to ongoing identification of all external-facing assets and potential exposures.
- Risk Prioritization: Coverage for detailed analysis and scoring of vulnerabilities based on exploitability and business impact.
- Proactive Defense: Protection against unknown threats by understanding and mitigating risks before they are exploited.
- Educational Focus: Entitlement to specialized licensing tailored for educational institutions to secure their digital learning environments.
Product Overview
Product Overview
Bitdefender GravityZone External Attack Surface Management (EASM) is a cloud-based solution designed to continuously discover, monitor, and prioritize risks associated with an organization's external-facing digital assets. It provides a unified view of your attack surface, identifying vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and shadow IT that could be exploited by attackers.
This service is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals within educational institutions of all sizes. It integrates into existing security frameworks, offering actionable intelligence to reduce the attack surface and strengthen the overall security posture without requiring extensive on-premises infrastructure.
- External Asset Discovery: Automatically identifies all internet-facing assets, including websites, cloud services, and infrastructure.
- Vulnerability & Misconfiguration Detection: Scans for known vulnerabilities, weak configurations, and exposed sensitive data.
- Attack Path Mapping: Visualizes potential attack routes an adversary could take to breach your network.
- Risk Prioritization Engine: Ranks identified risks based on exploitability, asset criticality, and potential impact.
- Threat Intelligence Integration: Leverages Bitdefender's global threat intelligence to identify emerging attack vectors.
Secure your institution's digital presence with Bitdefender EASM, offering essential visibility and risk reduction tailored for educational environments.
What This Solves
Identify Shadow IT and Unmanaged Assets
Enable teams to discover and inventory all external-facing assets, including forgotten cloud services and unauthorized applications. Streamline the process of bringing unmanaged assets under security control to prevent potential breaches.
cloud-first environments, hybrid IT infrastructure, distributed campuses, remote workforce enablement, digital transformation initiatives
Prioritize Vulnerability Remediation Efforts
Automate the assessment of external vulnerabilities based on exploitability and business impact, allowing IT teams to focus remediation efforts on the most critical risks. Support efficient allocation of security resources by providing clear, data-driven priorities.
limited IT security staff, compliance-driven organizations, complex network architectures, rapid technology adoption, risk-averse operations
Map and Understand Attack Paths
Visualize potential attack routes that adversaries could exploit to compromise your organization's external perimeter. Streamline security planning by understanding how different vulnerabilities and exposures connect to form exploitable paths.
proactive threat hunting, security architecture review, incident response preparedness, penetration testing support, security awareness training
Key Features
Continuous External Asset Discovery
Automatically identifies all internet-facing assets, eliminating blind spots and ensuring comprehensive visibility.
Attack Surface Risk Scoring
Prioritizes vulnerabilities and misconfigurations based on exploitability and potential business impact, enabling efficient remediation.
Attack Path Visualization
Helps security teams understand how attackers might move through the external environment, aiding in proactive defense strategies.
Threat Intelligence Integration
Leverages Bitdefender's global threat data to identify emerging risks and adapt defenses accordingly.
Educational Licensing
Provides cost-effective access to advanced EASM capabilities specifically tailored for academic institutions.
Industry Applications
Education & Research
Educational institutions manage vast amounts of sensitive student and research data, requiring robust external security to comply with regulations like FERPA and protect against targeted attacks.
Government & Public Sector
Public sector entities face significant risks from nation-state actors and cybercriminals, necessitating continuous monitoring of their external attack surface to safeguard critical infrastructure and citizen data.
Finance & Insurance
Financial and insurance organizations handle highly sensitive personal and financial data, making them prime targets. Continuous external attack surface assessment is crucial for meeting stringent regulatory compliance and maintaining customer trust.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers must protect patient health information (PHI) under regulations like HIPAA. Proactive identification and mitigation of external vulnerabilities are essential to prevent data breaches and ensure operational continuity.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is External Attack Surface Management (EASM)?
EASM is a cybersecurity discipline focused on discovering, monitoring, and reducing an organization's exposure to external threats. It involves identifying all internet-facing assets and assessing them for vulnerabilities and misconfigurations.
How does Bitdefender EASM help educational institutions?
It provides educational institutions with a clear view of their external digital footprint, helping them identify risks like shadow IT, exposed data, and unpatched vulnerabilities. This allows for proactive security measures to protect student and institutional data.
Is this a cloud-based solution?
Yes, Bitdefender GravityZone External Attack Surface Management is a cloud-delivered service, meaning it requires no on-premises hardware and provides continuous updates and monitoring.
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.