Bitdefender GravityZone Security for Storage
Bitdefender GravityZone Security for Storage provides advanced threat protection for your file servers and virtualized storage environments, ensuring data integrity and availability.
- Advanced Threat Detection: Coverage against ransomware, zero-day exploits, and other sophisticated malware targeting storage systems.
- Performance Optimization: Protection that minimizes impact on storage performance, maintaining operational efficiency.
- Centralized Management: Entitlement to a single console for managing security policies across all protected storage assets.
- Virtualization Security: Protection for virtualized storage environments, crucial for modern data centers.
Product Overview
Product Overview
Bitdefender GravityZone Security for Storage is a specialized cybersecurity solution designed to protect file servers and virtualized storage from advanced threats. It offers real-time scanning and threat analysis specifically optimized for storage environments, preventing data corruption and unauthorized access.
This solution is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market organizations who need to safeguard critical business data residing on file servers or within virtual storage infrastructure. It integrates into existing security frameworks to provide an essential layer of defense for an organization's most valuable digital assets.
- Real-time Threat Scanning: Scans files and data streams in real-time as they are accessed or transferred, detecting and blocking threats before they impact data.
- Ransomware Protection: Specific defenses against ransomware attacks that target file shares and storage, preventing data encryption and extortion.
- Virtual Machine Security: Optimized security for virtualized storage, including VM-aware scanning to reduce performance overhead.
- Centralized Policy Management: Manage security settings and policies from a single GravityZone console for consistent protection across all storage endpoints.
- Low Performance Impact: Engineered to provide robust security with minimal impact on storage and server performance.
Safeguard your organization's critical data with specialized storage security, delivering enterprise-grade protection without the enterprise complexity.
What This Solves
Enable teams to protect file servers from ransomware
Enable teams to defend critical file shares and network-attached storage from ransomware attacks that aim to encrypt or exfiltrate sensitive business data. Prevent costly downtime and data recovery efforts by proactively blocking malicious encryption processes.
on-premises file servers, network attached storage, shared drives, business continuity planning
Streamline security for virtual storage environments
Streamline the deployment and management of security for virtualized storage solutions, such as those used in VMware or Hyper-V environments. Ensure efficient, VM-aware scanning that minimizes performance impact while maximizing threat detection.
virtualized data centers, VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, storage area networks
Automate threat detection on data repositories
Automate the detection and blocking of malware, zero-day threats, and other malicious content as it is written to or accessed from central data repositories. Maintain data integrity and prevent the spread of infections across the network.
centralized data storage, document management systems, data archiving, compliance requirements
Key Features
VM-aware scanning
Reduces scanning overhead and improves performance in virtualized storage environments.
Real-time file scanning
Detects and blocks threats instantly as files are accessed or modified, preventing data compromise.
Ransomware mitigation
Protects against data encryption and extortion by identifying and neutralizing ransomware behavior.
Centralized management console
Simplifies policy enforcement and monitoring across all protected storage assets from a single interface.
Low resource utilization
Maintains optimal server and storage performance by minimizing the impact of security processes.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions handle highly sensitive customer data and face stringent regulatory compliance requirements, making robust protection for storage systems essential to prevent breaches and maintain trust.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations manage vast amounts of patient data (PHI) that must be protected under regulations like HIPAA, requiring secure storage solutions to prevent unauthorized access and data breaches.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Manufacturers rely on secure storage for intellectual property, design files, and operational data, where any compromise could lead to significant financial loss or production disruption.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services companies handle confidential client information, necessitating strong security measures for their storage systems to maintain client privacy and comply with professional ethics.
Frequently Asked Questions
What types of storage does Bitdefender GravityZone Security for Storage protect?
This solution is designed to protect file servers (Windows and Linux), network-attached storage (NAS) devices, and virtualized storage environments like VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V.
How does this product differ from endpoint security?
While endpoint security protects individual workstations and servers, Security for Storage is specifically optimized to scan data at the storage layer, providing protection for shared data repositories and virtual storage infrastructure with minimal performance impact.
Is this a cloud-based or on-premises solution?
Bitdefender GravityZone Security for Storage is managed via the cloud-based GravityZone console, but the security agents are installed on your on-premises file servers or virtual machines to protect your local storage.
Deployment & Support
Deployment Complexity
Medium — IT-assisted
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.