Bitdefender GravityZone Security for Storage - Co-Term Education
Bitdefender GravityZone Security for Storage provides advanced threat protection for your data repositories, ensuring data integrity and availability for educational institutions.
- Extended Coverage: Continuous protection for your storage systems, co-termed with existing licenses.
- Advanced Threat Defense: Proactive detection and blocking of malware, ransomware, and zero-day threats targeting storage.
- Performance Optimization: Minimal impact on storage performance, ensuring efficient data access.
- Centralized Management: Unified console for simplified policy enforcement and monitoring across all storage devices.
Product Overview
Product Overview
Bitdefender GravityZone Security for Storage is a specialized cybersecurity solution designed to protect network-attached storage (NAS) devices and file servers from advanced threats. It offers real-time scanning and threat intelligence to prevent data breaches, ransomware attacks, and other malicious activities that could compromise critical business information.
This solution is ideal for IT managers and security professionals in educational institutions who need to safeguard sensitive student and research data stored on shared drives and servers. It integrates with existing security infrastructure to provide an additional layer of defense specifically for storage environments.
- Real-time Threat Detection: Scans files as they are accessed or modified, stopping threats before they can infect data.
- Ransomware Protection: Employs advanced techniques to detect and block ransomware encryption attempts.
- Low Performance Impact: Optimized to minimize resource consumption and avoid impacting storage read/write speeds.
- Centralized Management: Manage security policies and monitor threats from a single console.
- Co-termination Licensing: Aligns license expiration with existing Bitdefender contracts for simplified renewal.
Secure your institution's valuable data with Bitdefender's specialized storage security, offering peace of mind and robust protection.
What This Solves
Enable teams to protect sensitive research data
Enable teams to secure critical research data stored on network-attached storage from ransomware and malware. This ensures the integrity and availability of valuable intellectual property and ongoing projects.
Research institutions, university IT departments, data storage servers
Automate threat detection on shared file servers
Automate real-time threat detection and blocking for shared file servers used by students and faculty. This prevents the spread of malware and protects against unauthorized access to sensitive information.
Educational networks, campus file sharing, administrative data storage
Streamline security for educational storage infrastructure
Streamline the security management of diverse storage devices across campus networks. Co-termed licensing simplifies renewal and budget planning for IT departments.
University IT infrastructure, school district storage, educational technology deployments
Key Features
Advanced Threat Prevention
Blocks known and unknown threats, including zero-day exploits and ransomware, before they can compromise data.
Real-time Scanning
Scans files as they are accessed or modified, providing immediate protection against threats.
Low Resource Consumption
Optimized to minimize impact on storage performance, ensuring smooth operations.
Centralized Management Console
Simplifies policy deployment, monitoring, and reporting across all protected storage devices.
Co-termination Licensing
Aligns license expiration with existing Bitdefender contracts, simplifying renewals and budget management for educational institutions.
Industry Applications
Education & Research
Educational institutions handle vast amounts of sensitive student and research data, requiring robust protection against breaches and ransomware to maintain compliance and operational continuity.
Government & Public Sector
Public sector organizations manage critical citizen data and require secure storage solutions to prevent data loss and maintain public trust, often under strict regulatory requirements.
Finance & Insurance
Financial and insurance companies store highly sensitive customer financial data, making secure storage essential to prevent fraud and comply with stringent financial regulations like PCI DSS.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers must protect patient health information (PHI) stored on servers, adhering to HIPAA regulations and ensuring data availability for critical medical operations.
Frequently Asked Questions
What types of storage does GravityZone Security for Storage protect?
This solution is designed to protect network-attached storage (NAS) devices and file servers. It is optimized for environments where large volumes of data are stored and accessed by multiple users.
How does this product differ from endpoint security?
While endpoint security protects individual devices, GravityZone Security for Storage specifically targets the vulnerabilities of storage systems themselves, preventing threats from infecting or encrypting data at rest or in transit to/from storage.
Is this suitable for cloud storage?
This specific product is designed for on-premises NAS and file servers. Bitdefender offers other cloud-native security solutions for cloud storage environments.
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.