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 risks before they are exploited.
- Continuous Monitoring: Gain ongoing insight into your external digital footprint and potential vulnerabilities.
- Risk Prioritization: Understand and prioritize threats based on their potential impact and exploitability.
- Attack Surface Reduction: Proactively address weaknesses to minimize your exposure to cyber threats.
- Educational Institution Focus: Tailored solutions designed to meet the unique security needs of educational organizations.
Product Overview
Product Overview
Bitdefender GravityZone External Attack Surface Management (EASM) is a cloud-based solution that continuously discovers, monitors, and assesses your organization's external-facing digital assets. It identifies potential vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and shadow IT exposures that could be exploited by attackers, providing actionable intelligence to strengthen your security posture.
This service is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals within educational institutions of all sizes, from K-12 districts to universities. It integrates into existing security frameworks, offering a clear view of external risks without requiring significant infrastructure changes, helping to secure sensitive student and research data.
- External Asset Discovery: Automatically maps all internet-facing assets, including domains, subdomains, IPs, and cloud services.
- Vulnerability Identification: Detects exposed sensitive data, shadow IT, and exploitable misconfigurations.
- Attack Path Simulation: Visualizes potential attack routes an adversary could take to compromise your organization.
- Risk Scoring and Prioritization: Assigns risk scores to identified assets and vulnerabilities, enabling focused remediation efforts.
- Continuous Monitoring and Alerts: Provides real-time updates and alerts on new exposures or changes in your attack surface.
Secure your educational institution's external digital presence with proactive threat detection and risk management.
What This Solves
Identify unknown external assets and shadow IT
Enable teams to discover all internet-facing assets, including forgotten cloud services and unauthorized applications. Streamline the process of mapping your complete external digital footprint to prevent security gaps.
cloud-first environments, hybrid IT infrastructure, distributed workforce, multi-cloud deployments
Detect and prioritize exploitable vulnerabilities
Automate the detection of critical vulnerabilities and misconfigurations on external assets. Prioritize remediation efforts based on exploitability and potential business impact, ensuring efficient use of security resources.
compliance-driven operations, risk-averse organizations, IT security operations centers, incident response planning
Visualize and understand potential attack paths
Streamline the understanding of how attackers might target your organization by visualizing potential attack paths. Enable security teams to proactively strengthen defenses along critical vectors.
threat intelligence integration, security awareness training, proactive defense strategies, cyber risk management
Key Features
Continuous external asset discovery
Automatically maps all internet-facing assets, ensuring no critical component is overlooked and reducing the risk of shadow IT.
Vulnerability and misconfiguration detection
Identifies exploitable weaknesses and insecure configurations on your external surface, allowing for timely remediation.
Attack path analysis
Visualizes potential attack routes, helping security teams understand and defend against sophisticated threats.
Risk scoring and prioritization
Provides actionable insights to focus remediation efforts on the most critical risks first.
Real-time alerts and reporting
Keeps security teams informed of new threats and changes to the attack surface, enabling rapid response.
Industry Applications
Education & Research
Educational institutions manage vast amounts of sensitive student and research data, making external attack surface visibility crucial for compliance and protection against targeted attacks.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations handle protected health information (PHI) and critical operational systems, requiring robust external security to prevent breaches and ensure patient care continuity.
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions are prime targets for cybercriminals due to the sensitive financial data they hold, necessitating continuous monitoring of their external attack surface for regulatory compliance and fraud prevention.
Government & Public Sector
Government agencies manage critical infrastructure and citizen data, facing significant threats and regulatory requirements that demand a clear understanding and control of their external digital footprint.
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. It aims to identify and mitigate risks that attackers could exploit from outside the network perimeter.
How does Bitdefender GravityZone EASM benefit educational institutions?
For educational institutions, it provides critical visibility into external risks, helping to protect sensitive student data, research intellectual property, and campus infrastructure from cyber threats.
Does this service require on-premises installation?
No, Bitdefender GravityZone EASM is a cloud-based SaaS solution. It operates entirely online, requiring no on-premises hardware or software installation.
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.