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 risks before attackers can exploit them.
- Continuous Monitoring: Gain ongoing insight into your external digital footprint, including exposed assets and potential vulnerabilities.
- Risk Prioritization: Automatically identify and rank risks based on their exploitability and potential business impact.
- Attack Surface Reduction: Proactively address security gaps by understanding and mitigating external exposures.
- Educational Focus: Tailored for educational institutions to secure their unique digital environments and sensitive data.
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 exposed assets, misconfigurations, and potential vulnerabilities that could be exploited by attackers, providing actionable intelligence to reduce risk.
This service is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in educational institutions of all sizes, from K-12 districts to universities. It integrates into existing security operations by providing a clear, external perspective on the organization's security posture, helping to prioritize remediation efforts and prevent breaches.
- External Asset Discovery: Automatically map all internet-facing assets, including domains, subdomains, IP addresses, and cloud services.
- Vulnerability Identification: Detect misconfigurations, leaked credentials, and exploitable vulnerabilities on exposed assets.
- Risk Scoring and Prioritization: Receive a clear, prioritized view of risks based on their potential impact and exploitability.
- Attack Path Visualization: Understand how attackers might move from exposed assets into the internal network.
- Continuous Monitoring: Stay informed of changes to your external attack surface and emerging threats in real time.
Secure your educational institution's external digital presence with continuous visibility and proactive risk management.
What This Solves
Enable continuous external asset discovery
Enable teams to automatically discover all internet-facing assets, including shadow IT and forgotten cloud services. This ensures a complete understanding of the organization's external digital footprint for better security management.
cloud-first environments, hybrid IT infrastructure, distributed campuses, remote workforce enablement
Streamline vulnerability prioritization
Streamline the process of identifying and prioritizing external vulnerabilities based on their exploitability and potential business impact. This allows security teams to focus on the most critical risks first.
security operations centers, incident response teams, IT risk management programs
Automate attack path analysis
Automate the analysis of potential attack paths originating from exposed assets. This provides clear insights into how attackers might gain access, enabling targeted defense strategies.
proactive threat hunting, security posture assessment, compliance auditing
Key Features
External Asset Discovery
Automatically maps all internet-facing assets, providing a complete view of your digital exposure.
Vulnerability Identification
Detects misconfigurations, leaked credentials, and exploitable weaknesses on exposed assets.
Risk Prioritization Engine
Ranks identified risks by exploitability and potential business impact, guiding remediation efforts.
Attack Path Visualization
Illustrates potential attacker routes from external assets into the network, informing defensive strategies.
Continuous Monitoring & Alerts
Provides real-time updates on changes to the attack surface and emerging threats, enabling swift response.
Industry Applications
Education & Research
Educational institutions manage vast amounts of sensitive student and research data, making them prime targets. EASM helps secure their extensive digital infrastructure against external threats, aligning with data privacy regulations like FERPA.
Government & Public Sector
Public sector organizations handle critical citizen data and services, requiring robust security against nation-state and criminal actors. EASM provides essential visibility into external-facing systems to prevent breaches and maintain public trust.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers must protect sensitive patient health information (PHI) under strict regulations like HIPAA. EASM helps identify and secure external-facing medical devices and systems to prevent unauthorized access and data compromise.
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions manage highly sensitive customer financial data and are subject to stringent regulatory compliance. EASM helps identify and mitigate external risks to protect against fraud and data theft, supporting compliance with regulations like PCI DSS.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is an external attack surface?
An organization's external attack surface refers to all the points where an attacker can attempt to enter or attack its systems from the internet. This includes websites, servers, cloud services, and any other internet-facing digital assets.
How does External Attack Surface Management help educational institutions?
For educational institutions, EASM helps identify and secure internet-facing systems that might hold sensitive student or research data. It proactively addresses vulnerabilities before they can be exploited, protecting against data breaches and service disruptions.
Is this a cloud-based solution?
Yes, Bitdefender GravityZone External Attack Surface Management is a cloud-based Software as a Service (SaaS) solution, meaning it is accessed via the internet and managed through a web portal, requiring no on-premises infrastructure.
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.