Bitdefender GravityZone External Attack Surface Management - Co-term EDU
Bitdefender GravityZone External Attack Surface Management provides continuous visibility and risk reduction for your organization's external digital assets, ensuring proactive threat mitigation.
- Continuous Monitoring: Access ongoing scanning of your external attack surface to detect new exposures.
- Risk Prioritization: Coverage for identifying and ranking vulnerabilities based on exploitability and business impact.
- Proactive Defense: Protection against potential breaches by addressing exposed assets before attackers can exploit them.
- Educational Focus: Entitlement to specialized licensing and features tailored for educational institutions.
Product Overview
Product Overview
Bitdefender GravityZone External Attack Surface Management is a cloud-based solution designed to continuously discover, monitor, and manage an organization's external-facing digital assets. It provides critical visibility into potential vulnerabilities and exposures that could be targeted by cyber threats, enabling proactive risk reduction.
This service is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals within SMB and mid-market organizations, including educational institutions, who need to understand and secure their organization's online presence. It integrates into existing security frameworks to provide a holistic view of external risks.
- External Asset Discovery: Automatically identifies all internet-facing assets, including shadow IT.
- Vulnerability Assessment: Detects misconfigurations, exposed sensitive data, and exploitable weaknesses.
- Risk Scoring: Prioritizes threats based on their potential impact and likelihood of exploitation.
- Attack Path Visualization: Maps potential attack routes an adversary could take.
- Compliance Support: Aids in meeting regulatory requirements by identifying data exposure risks.
Secure your organization's external digital footprint with Bitdefender's advanced attack surface management, offering enterprise-grade visibility without the enterprise overhead.
What This Solves
Identify Shadow IT and Unknown Assets
Enable teams to discover and inventory all internet-facing assets, including those not managed by IT. Streamline the process of identifying shadow IT to reduce unmanaged risks and potential entry points for attackers.
cloud-first environments, hybrid IT infrastructure, rapid growth organizations, distributed workforces
Detect External Vulnerabilities and Misconfigurations
Automate the detection of critical vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and exposed sensitive data on external assets. Prioritize remediation efforts based on exploitability and business impact to reduce the attack surface.
compliance-driven operations, security-conscious businesses, organizations with remote access needs
Visualize and Understand Attack Paths
Streamline the understanding of how attackers might target your organization by visualizing potential attack paths. Enable security teams to focus on the most critical threats and choke points.
incident response planning, proactive threat hunting, security awareness training
Key Features
Continuous External Asset Discovery
Automatically identifies all internet-facing assets, providing a complete inventory to prevent unknown exposures.
Attack Surface Risk Assessment
Prioritizes vulnerabilities and misconfigurations based on exploitability and potential business impact, enabling focused remediation.
External Data Exposure Detection
Identifies sensitive data exposed to the internet, helping to prevent data breaches and meet compliance requirements.
Attack Path Visualization
Maps potential attack routes, allowing security teams to understand and defend against adversary tactics.
Educational Licensing
Provides specialized licensing and features tailored for the needs and budgets of educational institutions.
Industry Applications
Education & Research
Educational institutions manage vast amounts of sensitive student and research data, requiring robust external security to protect against breaches and maintain compliance with regulations like FERPA.
Finance & Insurance
Financial and insurance companies handle highly sensitive customer data and are prime targets for cyberattacks, necessitating continuous monitoring of their external attack surface to comply with strict financial regulations.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers must protect patient health information (PHI) under HIPAA, making the continuous identification and remediation of external vulnerabilities critical to prevent data breaches and ensure patient privacy.
Government & Public Sector
Government agencies are responsible for securing sensitive citizen data and critical infrastructure, requiring a proactive approach to identify and mitigate external threats to maintain public trust and operational integrity.
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 extract data from its systems. This includes websites, servers, cloud instances, APIs, and any other internet-facing asset.
How does External Attack Surface Management help educational institutions?
For educational institutions, it helps identify risks associated with student portals, research data, administrative systems, and other internet-facing services. This proactive approach secures sensitive information and ensures operational continuity.
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.