Bitdefender GravityZone External Attack Surface Management EDU
Bitdefender GravityZone External Attack Surface Management EDU provides continuous visibility and risk assessment of your organization's external attack surface for three years.
- Continuous Monitoring: Gain ongoing insight into your external digital footprint, identifying unknown or misconfigured assets.
- Risk Prioritization: Understand and prioritize vulnerabilities based on their exploitability and potential business impact.
- Attack Surface Reduction: Proactively address security gaps before they can be exploited by threat actors.
- Educational Focus: Tailored for educational institutions to manage their unique IT environments and compliance needs.
Product Overview
Product Overview
Bitdefender GravityZone External Attack Surface Management (EASM) EDU is a cloud-based solution designed to continuously discover, monitor, and assess an organization's external attack surface. It provides critical visibility into digital assets, potential exposures, and vulnerabilities that could be targeted by cyber adversaries, offering a proactive approach to cybersecurity for educational institutions.
This solution is ideal for IT managers, security officers, and system administrators within educational organizations of all sizes. It integrates into existing security frameworks, providing a unified view of external risks that complements internal security measures and helps maintain a strong security posture against evolving threats.
- External Asset Discovery: Automatically identifies all internet-facing assets, including shadow IT and forgotten systems.
- Vulnerability Detection: Scans for known vulnerabilities and misconfigurations across discovered assets.
- Threat Exposure Mapping: Visualizes how attackers might exploit identified weaknesses to breach the network.
- Risk Scoring and Prioritization: Assigns risk scores to assets and vulnerabilities to guide remediation efforts effectively.
- Compliance Support: Aids in meeting regulatory and compliance requirements by ensuring external assets are secured.
Bitdefender GravityZone EASM EDU empowers educational institutions to take control of their external digital risks with clear, actionable insights.
What This Solves
Identify Unknown External Assets
Enable teams to discover all internet-facing assets, including shadow IT and forgotten systems that may pose a security risk. Streamline the process of maintaining an accurate inventory of external digital assets for better security management.
cloud-first environments, hybrid deployments, distributed campuses, remote workforce enablement
Proactively Detect Vulnerabilities
Automate the detection of vulnerabilities and misconfigurations across all discovered external assets. Support continuous security monitoring by providing timely alerts on potential security weaknesses before they are exploited.
compliance-driven operations, risk-averse IT strategies, proactive security posture, incident prevention
Prioritize Security Remediation
Streamline the prioritization of security efforts by providing clear risk scores and actionable insights into exploitable vulnerabilities. Enable teams to focus remediation on the most critical threats to their external digital footprint.
resource-constrained IT departments, security operations centers, managed security services integration, incident response planning
Key Features
Continuous External Asset Discovery
Automatically identifies all internet-facing assets, including shadow IT and forgotten systems, eliminating blind spots.
Attack Surface Visualization
Maps out how attackers might exploit vulnerabilities, providing a clear understanding of potential breach paths.
Vulnerability and Misconfiguration Detection
Identifies known security flaws and improper configurations across discovered assets, enabling proactive patching.
Risk-Based Prioritization
Assigns risk scores to assets and vulnerabilities, allowing teams to focus remediation efforts on the most critical threats.
Threat Intelligence Integration
Incorporates threat intelligence to understand the context and exploitability of identified risks.
Industry Applications
Education & Research
Educational institutions manage vast amounts of sensitive data and often have complex, distributed IT environments, making external attack surface management critical for protecting student records, research data, and operational integrity.
Government & Public Sector
Public sector organizations face stringent compliance requirements and are high-value targets, necessitating robust external attack surface management to secure citizen data and critical infrastructure.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers handle highly sensitive patient data (PHI) and must adhere to strict regulations like HIPAA, making continuous monitoring and risk assessment of their external-facing systems essential for data protection and patient safety.
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions are prime targets for cyberattacks due to the sensitive financial data they hold and must comply with numerous regulations, requiring comprehensive visibility and control over their external attack surface to prevent fraud and data breaches.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is External Attack Surface Management?
External Attack Surface Management (EASM) is a cybersecurity practice focused on discovering, monitoring, and securing an organization's digital assets that are exposed to the internet. It aims to identify and mitigate potential vulnerabilities before attackers can exploit them.
How does Bitdefender GravityZone EASM EDU help educational institutions?
It provides educational institutions with continuous visibility into their external digital footprint, helping them identify and manage risks associated with internet-facing assets. This is crucial for protecting sensitive student and research data and maintaining compliance.
Is this a cloud-based solution?
Yes, Bitdefender GravityZone External Attack Surface Management EDU is a cloud-based (SaaS) solution, meaning it is delivered over the internet and does not require on-premises hardware 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.