Bitdefender GravityZone External Attack Surface Management - Education
Bitdefender GravityZone External Attack Surface Management for Education provides continuous visibility into your organization's external attack surface, identifying critical vulnerabilities before attackers can exploit them.
- Continuous Monitoring: Gain ongoing insight into your external digital footprint, including exposed assets and potential entry points.
- Risk Prioritization: Automatically identify and rank vulnerabilities based on their exploitability and potential business impact.
- Proactive Defense: Enable your IT teams to address security gaps before they are discovered and exploited by malicious actors.
- Compliance Support: Assist in meeting regulatory requirements by demonstrating due diligence in managing external cyber risks.
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 provides critical visibility into potential attack vectors, misconfigurations, and exposed sensitive data that could be exploited by cybercriminals.
This solution is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals within educational institutions of all sizes. It integrates into existing security frameworks, offering a proactive approach to cybersecurity by highlighting risks that might otherwise go unnoticed in complex, distributed IT environments.
- External Asset Discovery: Automatically maps all internet-facing assets, including shadow IT and forgotten subdomains.
- Vulnerability Identification: Detects misconfigurations, exposed credentials, and exploitable software vulnerabilities.
- Attack Path Mapping: Visualizes potential attack routes an adversary could take to breach your network.
- Risk Scoring and Prioritization: Assigns risk scores to identified issues, enabling focused remediation efforts.
- Threat Intelligence Integration: Leverages Bitdefender's global threat intelligence to inform risk assessments.
Secure your institution's digital perimeter with Bitdefender EASM, offering essential visibility and proactive risk management for educational IT teams.
What This Solves
Identify Shadow IT and Forgotten Assets
Enable teams to discover all internet-facing assets, including shadow IT and forgotten subdomains, that may be unmanaged and vulnerable. Streamline the process of mapping your complete external attack surface for better security oversight.
cloud-first environments, hybrid IT infrastructure, distributed campuses, remote workforce support
Automate Vulnerability Discovery
Automate the detection of critical vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and exposed sensitive data across your external digital footprint. Streamline the remediation process by focusing on the highest-risk issues first.
complex network architectures, multi-cloud deployments, legacy system integration, rapid technology adoption
Proactively Map Attack Paths
Streamline the understanding of potential attack paths an adversary could take to compromise your institution's data or systems. Enable teams to proactively close these gaps before they are exploited.
risk-based security strategies, incident response planning, security awareness training, compliance audits
Key Features
Continuous External Asset Discovery
Provides a complete and up-to-date inventory of all internet-facing assets, eliminating blind spots and shadow IT.
Automated Vulnerability and Misconfiguration Detection
Identifies exploitable weaknesses and insecure configurations before attackers can find them, reducing the attack surface.
Attack Path Visualization
Helps security teams understand how attackers might move through their external environment, enabling more effective defense strategies.
Risk Prioritization Engine
Focuses remediation efforts on the most critical vulnerabilities based on exploitability and potential business impact, optimizing resource allocation.
Integration with Threat Intelligence
Leverages global threat data to provide context and accuracy to identified risks, ensuring relevant and actionable insights.
Industry Applications
Education & Research
Educational institutions manage vast amounts of sensitive student and research data, making them prime targets. EASM helps identify and secure the external-facing systems that support online learning, administrative functions, and research activities, aiding in compliance with data privacy regulations like FERPA.
Government & Public Sector
Government agencies often have complex, distributed IT infrastructures with numerous external-facing services. EASM provides essential visibility to identify and mitigate risks across these systems, supporting critical public services and protecting sensitive citizen data in line with mandates like FISMA.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations handle highly sensitive patient data (PHI) and are subject to strict regulations like HIPAA. EASM helps identify external vulnerabilities in patient portals, telehealth platforms, and research systems, ensuring data integrity and compliance.
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions and insurance providers manage vast amounts of sensitive financial data and are heavily regulated. EASM helps them identify and secure external-facing applications, customer portals, and trading platforms, crucial for maintaining trust and adhering to regulations like GLBA and PCI DSS.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is External Attack Surface Management (EASM)?
External Attack Surface Management (EASM) is a cybersecurity discipline focused on discovering, monitoring, and assessing an organization's internet-facing digital assets. It aims to identify and mitigate potential vulnerabilities and risks that could be exploited by external attackers.
How does Bitdefender GravityZone EASM help educational institutions?
For educational institutions, Bitdefender GravityZone EASM provides crucial visibility into their external digital footprint, helping to secure sensitive student and faculty data. It proactively identifies risks associated with online learning platforms, research portals, and administrative systems.
Is this a cloud-based solution?
Yes, Bitdefender GravityZone EASM is a cloud-based Software as a Service (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.