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 for educational institutions.
- Extended Coverage: Ensures continuous protection for your storage environment through co-termination with existing licenses.
- Advanced Threat Detection: Guards against ransomware, zero-day exploits, and other sophisticated threats targeting data at rest.
- Performance Optimization: Minimizes impact on storage performance, maintaining operational efficiency.
- Centralized Management: Simplifies security administration through a unified console for all protected storage devices.
Product Overview
Product Overview
Bitdefender GravityZone Security for Storage is a specialized cybersecurity solution designed to protect file servers and storage devices from advanced threats. It offers real-time scanning and threat intelligence to prevent malware infections, ransomware attacks, and data breaches targeting your critical business data.
This solution is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in educational institutions seeking to safeguard sensitive student and research data. It integrates directly with storage systems to provide a robust security layer without compromising performance, fitting seamlessly into existing IT infrastructure.
- Real-time Threat Prevention: Detects and blocks malware, ransomware, and zero-day threats before they can compromise data.
- Endpoint and Server Protection: Secures file servers and NAS devices, crucial for data repositories.
- Centralized Management Console: Provides a single pane of glass for monitoring, reporting, and policy enforcement.
- Low Performance Impact: Optimized to run efficiently without significantly affecting storage read/write speeds.
- Co-termination Licensing: Aligns license expiration with existing Bitdefender agreements for simplified renewals.
Secure your educational institution's vital data with Bitdefender GravityZone Security for Storage, offering enterprise-grade protection without the enterprise overhead.
What This Solves
Enable secure data storage for research
Enable teams to protect sensitive research data stored on file servers from ransomware and data theft. Ensure the integrity and confidentiality of critical academic and scientific information.
academic servers, research data repositories, centralized file shares, educational IT infrastructure
Streamline security for educational file servers
Streamline the security management of shared educational file servers, ensuring all stored documents and resources are protected. Automate threat detection and response to minimize administrative burden.
shared storage environments, administrative file servers, student resource portals, university IT operations
Automate protection against storage threats
Automate the defense against evolving threats targeting network-attached storage (NAS) devices. Prevent malware from encrypting or exfiltrating valuable institutional data.
network-attached storage, centralized data backups, departmental file shares, campus IT security
Key Features
Advanced Threat Detection Engine
Proactively identifies and neutralizes malware, ransomware, and zero-day threats targeting data at rest.
File Server and NAS Protection
Secures critical data repositories, preventing breaches and ensuring business continuity.
Centralized Management
Simplifies security policy deployment, monitoring, and reporting across all protected storage devices.
Low Performance Impact
Maintains optimal storage performance by minimizing resource consumption during scans.
Co-termination Licensing
Aligns license expiration dates for simplified renewal and budget management.
Industry Applications
Education & Research
Educational institutions manage vast amounts of sensitive student and research data, making them prime targets for cyberattacks. This solution provides specialized protection for their file servers and NAS devices, crucial for maintaining data integrity and compliance with regulations like FERPA.
Finance & Insurance
Financial and insurance organizations handle highly sensitive customer data and are subject to strict regulatory compliance. Protecting data stored on file servers and NAS is paramount to prevent breaches and maintain trust, aligning with requirements like PCI DSS and GLBA.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers store Protected Health Information (PHI) on various systems, including file servers and NAS. This solution helps secure that data against ransomware and breaches, supporting compliance with HIPAA and HITECH regulations.
Government & Public Sector
Government agencies manage critical citizen data and sensitive operational information. Protecting these assets on file servers and NAS is vital for national security, public trust, and adherence to data protection mandates.
Frequently Asked Questions
What types of storage does GravityZone Security for Storage protect?
This solution is designed to protect file servers and Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices. It secures the data residing on these critical storage infrastructures.
How does this solution differ from endpoint security?
While endpoint security protects individual devices, GravityZone Security for Storage specifically targets the threats that aim to compromise centralized data repositories like file servers and NAS, offering specialized protection for data at rest.
What is 'co-term' licensing?
Co-term licensing means the license expiration date is aligned with your existing Bitdefender agreements. This simplifies renewal processes and ensures continuous coverage without managing multiple expiration dates.
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.