Bitdefender GravityZone External Attack Surface Management EDU
Bitdefender GravityZone External Attack Surface Management for Education provides a 2-year subscription to continuously discover and assess your organization's external attack surface, reducing risk.
- Continuous Discovery: Access ongoing identification of all internet-facing assets and potential exposures.
- Risk Prioritization: Coverage for detailed vulnerability scoring and contextual risk assessment.
- Proactive Defense: Protection against unknown threats by understanding your external digital footprint.
- Entitlement to Insights: Gain actionable intelligence to strengthen your security posture before an attack occurs.
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 internet-facing assets, vulnerabilities, and potential attack vectors that malicious actors could exploit.
This service is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in educational institutions seeking to understand and mitigate risks associated with their online presence. It integrates into existing security frameworks to provide a unified view of external threats.
- External Asset Discovery: Automatically maps all internet-facing assets, including shadow IT and misconfigurations.
- Vulnerability Assessment: Identifies exploitable weaknesses across discovered assets.
- Attack Surface Prioritization: Ranks risks based on exploitability and business impact.
- Threat Intelligence Integration: Correlates findings with real-time threat data.
- Compliance Reporting: Assists in meeting regulatory requirements by documenting security posture.
This solution empowers educational institutions to proactively manage their external risks without the overhead of manual assessment tools.
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 complete external digital presence to prevent security gaps.
cloud-first environments, hybrid networks, distributed campuses, remote workforce enablement
Proactive Vulnerability Management
Automate the identification of exploitable vulnerabilities across your external attack surface. Prioritize remediation efforts based on real-world exploitability and potential business impact.
risk-averse operations, compliance-driven organizations, security-conscious IT departments
Reduce External Threat Exposure
Gain critical insights into how attackers might perceive and target your organization. Strengthen defenses by addressing weaknesses before they can be exploited by malicious actors.
data-sensitive operations, critical infrastructure management, public-facing services
Key Features
Continuous External Asset Discovery
Automatically maps all internet-facing assets, including shadow IT and misconfigurations, to eliminate blind spots.
Attack Surface Prioritization Engine
Ranks identified risks based on exploitability and business impact, allowing teams to focus on the most critical threats.
Vulnerability Identification
Detects exploitable weaknesses across discovered assets, providing clear data for remediation.
Threat Intelligence Correlation
Integrates with real-time threat data to contextualize risks and understand potential attack vectors.
Attack Path Visualization
Helps security teams understand how an attacker could move from an exposed asset to critical internal systems.
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.
Government & Public Sector
Government agencies must protect critical infrastructure and citizen data, facing stringent compliance mandates and a high threat landscape that necessitates continuous external vulnerability assessment.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers handle highly sensitive patient information (PHI) and must adhere to strict regulations like HIPAA, making external attack surface visibility crucial for preventing data breaches.
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions and insurance companies are prime targets for cybercriminals due to the valuable data they hold, requiring proactive identification and mitigation of external threats to maintain trust and 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 external attacker can attempt to enter or attack your systems. This includes internet-facing servers, websites, cloud services, and any other digital assets exposed to the internet.
How does this service help educational institutions?
Educational institutions often have a large and dynamic digital footprint. This service helps them discover and secure all internet-facing assets, identify vulnerabilities, and reduce the risk of cyberattacks targeting students, staff, or sensitive data.
Is this a replacement for internal network security?
No, External Attack Surface Management complements internal security measures by focusing specifically on what is exposed to the internet. It provides visibility into risks that might be missed by internal-only security tools.
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.