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 for educational institutions.
- Continuous Monitoring: Access ongoing scanning and analysis of your organization's external attack surface.
- Risk Prioritization: Coverage for identifying and prioritizing critical vulnerabilities that pose the greatest threat.
- Attack Surface Reduction: Protection against potential breaches by proactively addressing exposed assets and misconfigurations.
- Educational Focus: Entitlement to specialized features and licensing tailored for educational environments.
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 potential attack vectors and cyber risks before they can be exploited, providing actionable insights to strengthen security posture.
This service is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals within educational institutions seeking to understand and mitigate risks associated with their public-facing digital assets. It integrates into existing security frameworks, offering a clear view of external threats without requiring extensive internal resources.
- External Asset Discovery: Automatically maps all internet-facing assets, including shadow IT and forgotten subdomains.
- Vulnerability Identification: Detects misconfigurations, exposed sensitive data, and exploitable vulnerabilities.
- Attack Path Simulation: Visualizes potential attack paths an adversary could take to breach your network.
- Risk Scoring and Prioritization: Assigns risk scores to identified issues, enabling focused remediation efforts.
- Compliance and Reporting: Generates reports to aid in demonstrating security posture and meeting compliance requirements.
Empower your educational institution with proactive external threat intelligence and risk reduction capabilities.
What This Solves
Continuous External Asset Discovery
Enable teams to automatically discover all internet-facing assets, including shadow IT and forgotten subdomains. Streamline the process of maintaining an accurate inventory of your organization's external digital footprint.
cloud-first environments, hybrid infrastructure, distributed campuses, remote workforce enablement, SaaS adoption
Proactive Vulnerability Identification
Automate the identification of critical vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and exposed sensitive data across your external attack surface. Reduce the risk of exploitation by addressing security weaknesses before they are discovered by attackers.
risk-averse operations, compliance-driven organizations, data security focus, incident prevention strategy
Attack Path Visualization and Prioritization
Streamline the assessment of potential attack paths an adversary could take to compromise your organization's assets. Automate the prioritization of remediation efforts based on the severity and exploitability of identified risks.
security operations centers, incident response planning, threat intelligence integration, resource-constrained IT teams
Key Features
Automated External Asset Discovery
Gain complete visibility into all internet-facing assets, including shadow IT and forgotten subdomains, to eliminate unknown risks.
Continuous Vulnerability Scanning
Proactively identify and prioritize exploitable vulnerabilities and misconfigurations on your external attack surface.
Attack Path Simulation
Understand how attackers might breach your network by visualizing potential attack paths, enabling focused defense.
Risk Scoring and Prioritization
Focus remediation efforts on the most critical risks with actionable insights and clear prioritization.
Educational Licensing
Benefit from cost-effective and tailored licensing solutions designed specifically for educational institutions.
Industry Applications
Education & Research
Educational institutions manage vast amounts of sensitive student and research data, making them attractive targets. EASM helps identify and mitigate external vulnerabilities that could lead to data breaches or service disruptions, supporting compliance with regulations like FERPA.
Government & Public Sector
Public sector organizations handle critical citizen data and services, requiring robust security against external threats. EASM provides essential visibility into their external attack surface to prevent breaches and maintain public trust.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers must protect sensitive patient health information (PHI) and maintain operational continuity. EASM helps identify external risks that could compromise patient data or disrupt critical healthcare services, aiding HIPAA compliance.
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions are prime targets for cyberattacks due to the sensitive financial data they hold. EASM helps these organizations identify and address external vulnerabilities to protect customer assets and comply with stringent financial regulations.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is External Attack Surface Management (EASM)?
EASM is a cybersecurity discipline focused on discovering, monitoring, and assessing an organization's external-facing digital assets and potential vulnerabilities. It helps identify risks that could be exploited by external attackers.
How does Bitdefender GravityZone EASM help educational institutions?
For educational institutions, it provides continuous visibility into their external digital footprint, helping to identify risks associated with public-facing servers, websites, and cloud services. This allows for proactive mitigation of threats targeting student and institutional data.
Is this a cloud-based solution?
Yes, Bitdefender GravityZone External Attack Surface Management is a cloud-based SaaS solution, meaning it requires no on-premises hardware and can be accessed from anywhere.
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.