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 potential risks before they are exploited.
- Continuous Monitoring: Ongoing scanning and analysis of your external-facing assets and potential exposures.
- Risk Prioritization: Intelligent identification and ranking of vulnerabilities based on exploitability and business impact.
- Attack Surface Reduction: Actionable insights to help you close security gaps and reduce your overall threat exposure.
- Education Sector Focus: Tailored solution for educational institutions to manage their unique IT environments and compliance needs.
Product Overview
Product Overview
Bitdefender GravityZone External Attack Surface Management is a cloud-based solution designed to continuously discover, assess, and prioritize external vulnerabilities across your organization's digital footprint. It provides a clear view of your attack surface, highlighting potential entry points for cyber threats.
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 frameworks, offering proactive threat intelligence to safeguard sensitive student and institutional data.
- External Asset Discovery: Automatically identifies all internet-facing assets, including shadow IT and misconfigurations.
- Vulnerability Assessment: Scans for known vulnerabilities, exposed sensitive data, and potential attack vectors.
- Threat Intelligence Integration: Leverages Bitdefender's global threat intelligence to understand emerging risks.
- Prioritized Remediation: Provides actionable guidance to address the most critical security weaknesses first.
- Compliance Support: Helps meet regulatory requirements by demonstrating proactive security posture management.
Secure your educational institution's digital perimeter with proactive external threat detection and management, ensuring data integrity and operational continuity.
What This Solves
Identify Shadow IT and Unknown Assets
Enable teams to discover all internet-facing assets, including unauthorized or forgotten systems. Streamline the process of mapping your organization's complete external digital footprint to prevent security gaps.
cloud-first environments, hybrid infrastructure, distributed campuses, BYOD policies, remote workforce
Proactive Vulnerability Management
Automate the identification and prioritization of external vulnerabilities across all discovered assets. Reduce the risk of exploitation by focusing remediation efforts on the most critical threats.
compliance-driven operations, risk-averse IT strategies, continuous security monitoring, incident prevention
Secure Digital Transformation Initiatives
Support teams launching new online services or expanding digital outreach by ensuring new external-facing assets are secure from inception. Minimize the introduction of new attack vectors during periods of rapid change.
new service deployments, digital learning platforms, research collaborations, public-facing portals
Key Features
Continuous External Asset Discovery
Automatically maps all internet-facing assets, including shadow IT, to eliminate blind spots in your attack surface.
Attack Surface Visualization
Provides a clear, actionable dashboard of your external digital footprint and potential risks.
Vulnerability and Exposure Prioritization
Identifies and ranks vulnerabilities based on exploitability and business impact, guiding efficient remediation.
Threat Intelligence Integration
Leverages Bitdefender's global threat data to identify emerging risks and attacker tactics relevant to your organization.
Education Sector Specialization
Offers tailored insights and support for the unique IT challenges and compliance needs of educational institutions.
Industry Applications
Education & Research
Educational institutions manage vast amounts of sensitive student and research data, requiring robust security to comply with regulations like FERPA and protect against ransomware attacks targeting their infrastructure.
Government & Public Sector
Public sector organizations handle citizen data and critical infrastructure, necessitating strong external security to prevent cyberattacks that could disrupt services or compromise sensitive information.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers must protect patient health information (PHI) under HIPAA, making continuous monitoring of their external attack surface crucial to prevent breaches and maintain patient trust.
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions are prime targets for cybercrime and must adhere to strict regulations like PCI DSS and GLBA, requiring diligent management of their external digital footprint to safeguard customer assets and data.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is External Attack Surface Management?
External Attack Surface Management (EASM) is a security practice focused on discovering and monitoring an organization's internet-facing assets and identifying potential vulnerabilities that attackers could exploit. It provides visibility into what the outside world sees.
How does this service help educational institutions specifically?
For educational institutions, this service helps secure sensitive student data, protect research intellectual property, and ensure the availability of online learning platforms. It addresses the unique compliance and security challenges faced by schools and universities.
Does this replace internal vulnerability scanning?
No, External Attack Surface Management complements internal security measures by focusing exclusively on the external perspective. It identifies risks that might be missed by internal-only assessments.
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.