Product Overview: Bitdefender GravityZone
Bitdefender GravityZone is a comprehensive cybersecurity platform designed to provide robust, multi-layered protection for organizations of all sizes, including enterprises, small to medium-sized businesses, and managed service providers.
What it Does
GravityZone is engineered to deliver prevention, protection, detection, and response capabilities against a wide range of cyber threats. It protects various environments, including physical endpoints, mobile devices, datacenters, virtualized and cloud servers, and email systems. The platform continuously monitors networks to uncover suspicious activity and provides the necessary tools to defend against sophisticated cyber-attacks.
Key Features and Functionality
Layered Next-Gen Endpoint Protection
GravityZone Business Security is built on a layered next-gen endpoint protection platform, utilizing machine learning techniques, behavioral analysis, and continuous monitoring of running processes to predict and block advanced attacks. This includes advanced mechanisms to detect and block exploit techniques such as API caller verification, stack pivot, and return-oriented programming (ROP).
Centralized Management
The platform offers centralized management through either a cloud-hosted or on-premise GravityZone Control Center console. This console allows administrators to manage protection for any number of endpoints or mailboxes from a single interface, providing flexibility and ease of deployment. The management center incorporates multiple roles, including a database server, communication server, update server, and web console.
Performance and Resource Efficiency
GravityZone is designed to provide high performance and protection while minimizing resource requirements. This enhances the user experience and improves hardware consolidation ratios, making it suitable for post-virtualization and post-cloud security architectures.
Advanced Threat Detection and Response
The platform includes Enhanced Detection and Response (EDR) capabilities that consolidate incidents at the host level, integrating Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) with Extended Detection and Response (XDR) incidents. This allows security analysts to identify, respond to, and proactively stop the spread of potential attacks. Automated threat remediation and response features instantly neutralize detected threats through actions such as process terminations, quarantine, removal, and rollback of malicious changes.
Policy-Based Endpoint Controls
GravityZone includes policy-based endpoint controls, including a firewall, device control with USB scanning, and web content control with URL categorization. The web security filtering enables real-time scanning of incoming web traffic, including SSL, HTTP, and HTTPS traffic, to prevent malware downloads.
Firewall and Network Control
The platform features a redesigned firewall configuration that allows administrators granular control over network traffic, services, and applications communicating with servers. This includes the ability to disable and delete predefined default rules and add scanning functions like port scanning, which are not available with the embedded Windows Firewall.
Patch Management and Hardening
GravityZone offers patch management capabilities that reduce the time needed for patching and protect systems and applications from emerging threats. It supports Windows OS and a wide range of third-party applications, with options for automatic or manual deployment.
Email and Virtual Environment Security
The platform includes GravityZone Email Security, a cloud-based solution that protects emails from spam, phishing, and malware using machine learning and behavioral heuristic models. Additionally, GravityZone Security for Virtualized Environments optimizes protection across virtual and cloud environments by offloading scanning to dedicated Bitdefender virtual appliances, improving performance and user experience.
Integration and Compliance
GravityZone integrates extensively with various systems, providing consolidated risk analytics, hardening, prevention, detection, and response across physical, virtual, and cloud workstations and servers. It also includes full disk encryption, which simplifies security and compliance with regulations such as GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI DSS.
In summary, Bitdefender GravityZone is a powerful, resource-efficient cybersecurity solution that offers comprehensive protection, centralized management, and advanced threat detection and response capabilities, making it an ideal choice for organizations seeking robust and integrated cybersecurity solutions.