Bitdefender GravityZone External Attack Surface Management - EDU R
Bitdefender GravityZone External Attack Surface Management for Education provides a 1-year subscription to continuously monitor and secure your organization's external digital footprint against emerging threats.
- Continuous Monitoring: Access to ongoing scanning of your external attack surface to identify vulnerabilities before attackers do.
- Risk Prioritization: Coverage for detailed risk scoring and prioritization, enabling focused remediation efforts.
- Attack Surface Visibility: Protection against unknown or misconfigured external assets that could be exploited.
- Educational Focus: Entitlement to specialized insights and reporting tailored for educational institutions' unique IT environments.
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-facing digital assets. It identifies potential vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and exposures that could be exploited by cyber attackers, providing actionable intelligence to reduce risk.
This service is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals within educational institutions seeking to gain comprehensive visibility into their organization's external attack surface. It integrates into existing security frameworks, offering a proactive layer of defense against external threats without requiring significant on-premises infrastructure.
- External Asset Discovery: Automatically identifies all internet-facing assets, including shadow IT and forgotten systems.
- Vulnerability Identification: Detects misconfigurations, exposed sensitive data, and exploitable weaknesses.
- Risk Prioritization: Ranks identified risks based on exploitability and potential impact, guiding remediation efforts.
- Threat Intelligence Integration: Incorporates real-time threat data to contextualize identified risks.
- Continuous Monitoring: Provides ongoing visibility and alerts for changes or new exposures on the attack surface.
Secure your institution's external digital presence with continuous visibility and proactive risk management, ensuring a stronger defense against evolving cyber threats.
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 and forgotten systems that pose a security risk.
cloud-first environments, hybrid IT infrastructure, decentralized IT management, organizations with rapid growth
Proactive Vulnerability Detection
Automate the detection of external vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and exposed sensitive data across your digital footprint. Reduce the window of opportunity for attackers by identifying risks before they are exploited.
compliance-driven operations, risk-averse organizations, businesses with critical external services, regulated industries
Prioritize Security Remediation Efforts
Streamline security operations by receiving prioritized risk assessments based on exploitability and potential impact. Focus limited resources on the most critical external threats to your organization.
security operations centers, IT teams with limited staff, organizations managing complex external services, incident response planning
Key Features
Continuous External Asset Discovery
Gain complete visibility into all internet-facing assets, including shadow IT, to prevent unknown exposures.
Attack Surface Risk Scoring
Prioritize remediation efforts by understanding the exploitability and potential impact of identified risks.
Misconfiguration Detection
Identify and correct security weaknesses caused by improperly configured external services and applications.
Sensitive Data Exposure Identification
Prevent data breaches by detecting instances where sensitive information is inadvertently exposed online.
Cloud-Native Platform
Easily deploy and manage external attack surface monitoring without significant infrastructure investment.
Industry Applications
Education & Research
Educational institutions often manage a wide array of external-facing services for students, faculty, and research, making EASM crucial for identifying and securing these diverse assets against cyber threats.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must protect sensitive patient data (PHI) accessible via external portals and systems, making proactive identification of external vulnerabilities a critical compliance and security requirement.
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions are prime targets for cyberattacks; EASM helps them continuously monitor their external-facing applications and services to prevent breaches and maintain customer trust.
Government & Public Sector
Public sector entities manage vast digital infrastructures that are often exposed online, requiring robust EASM to identify and mitigate risks to citizen data and critical services.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is External Attack Surface Management (EASM)?
External Attack Surface Management (EASM) is a security practice focused on discovering, monitoring, and assessing an organization's internet-facing digital assets. Its goal is to identify and mitigate potential vulnerabilities that attackers could exploit from outside the network perimeter.
How does Bitdefender GravityZone EASM help educational institutions?
For educational institutions, EASM provides critical visibility into their external digital footprint, which can be complex and dynamic. It helps identify risks associated with student portals, research platforms, and administrative systems, ensuring these are secured against external threats.
Is this a cloud-based solution?
Yes, Bitdefender GravityZone External Attack Surface Management is a cloud-based SaaS solution. This means it requires no on-premises hardware installation and can be accessed and managed from anywhere with an internet connection.
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.