
Bitdefender GravityZone Security for Storage - Co-Term EDU
Bitdefender GravityZone Security for Storage provides advanced threat protection for your organization's storage systems, ensuring data integrity and availability.
- Extended Coverage: Ensures continuous protection for your storage environment beyond standard warranty periods.
- Threat Prevention: Defends against ransomware, malware, and zero-day exploits targeting your stored data.
- Performance Optimization: Maintains optimal storage performance by preventing malware-related slowdowns.
- Data Integrity: Safeguards critical business information from corruption or unauthorized access.
Product Overview
Product Overview
Bitdefender GravityZone Security for Storage is a specialized cybersecurity solution designed to protect file servers and storage arrays from advanced threats. It offers real-time scanning and threat detection specifically optimized for storage environments, preventing malware from infecting or encrypting critical business files.
This solution is ideal for IT managers and IT professionals in SMB and mid-market organizations who manage on-premises or hybrid storage infrastructure. It integrates with existing GravityZone security consoles, providing a unified view of security posture across endpoints and storage.
- Advanced Threat Detection: Utilizes multiple layers of security, including signature-based, heuristic, and behavioral analysis, to identify and block known and unknown threats.
- Storage-Optimized Scanning: Performs efficient scans directly on file servers and NAS devices, minimizing performance impact on storage operations.
- Ransomware Protection: Employs specific technologies to detect and block ransomware attacks before they can encrypt valuable data.
- Centralized Management: Integrates with the Bitdefender GravityZone console for unified policy management, reporting, and incident response.
- Co-Term Education Licensing: Offers educational institutions a cost-effective licensing model for essential storage security.
Secure your vital business data with Bitdefender's specialized storage security, offering enterprise-grade protection without the enterprise complexity for SMB and mid-market teams.
What This Solves
Enable real-time threat scanning for file servers
Enable teams to protect critical business files from malware and ransomware with real-time scanning directly on file servers. Automate the detection and blocking of malicious threats before they can impact stored data or spread across the network.
on-premises file servers, network-attached storage, hybrid cloud storage, business continuity planning
Streamline security for storage infrastructure
Streamline the security management of your storage environment through integration with the Bitdefender GravityZone console. Automate policy enforcement and gain unified visibility into threats targeting your stored business data.
centralized IT management, multi-server environments, security operations centers, compliance adherence
Automate ransomware defense for stored data
Automate the defense against ransomware attacks specifically targeting your stored business documents and critical files. Protect against data encryption and ensure business continuity by preventing successful ransomware intrusions.
data protection strategies, disaster recovery planning, risk mitigation, operational resilience
Key Features
Real-time file scanning
Prevents malware and ransomware from infecting or encrypting files as they are accessed or modified on storage.
Optimized for storage performance
Minimizes impact on storage operations and user access speeds while providing robust protection.
Centralized GravityZone integration
Allows IT teams to manage storage security policies alongside endpoint security from a single console.
Advanced threat detection engines
Utilizes multiple layers of security to identify and block known and unknown threats targeting stored data.
Co-term educational licensing
Provides a cost-effective and simplified licensing model for educational institutions.
Industry Applications
Education & Research
Educational institutions often manage large volumes of sensitive student and research data, requiring robust protection against ransomware and malware, and the co-term EDU licensing specifically addresses their procurement needs.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations handle highly sensitive patient data (PHI) governed by strict regulations like HIPAA, making data integrity and protection against breaches paramount for storage systems.
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions manage critical transactional and customer data that must be protected from threats to ensure compliance with regulations like PCI DSS and maintain customer trust.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Manufacturers rely on stored data for operational blueprints, production schedules, and supply chain information, making storage security essential to prevent disruptions and protect intellectual property.
Frequently Asked Questions
What types of storage does Bitdefender GravityZone Security for Storage protect?
This solution is designed to protect file servers and network-attached storage (NAS) devices. It is optimized for environments where business data is stored and accessed by multiple users or applications.
How does this solution differ from endpoint security?
While endpoint security protects individual devices, GravityZone Security for Storage specifically targets threats at the file server level, preventing malware from residing on or spreading through shared storage resources.
Is this a cloud-based or on-premises solution?
The management console for GravityZone is cloud-based, but the security engine for storage protection is deployed directly on your file servers or storage appliances to provide localized scanning and protection.
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.