Security teams are under pressure to keep up with growing digital footprints, especially as businesses adopt cloud infrastructure, support remote workforces, and connect with more third-party services. Bitdefender is aiming to close visibility gaps with a new capability that helps organizations and managed service providers (MSPs) and MSSPs better monitor and manage external risks.
The company has introduced
GravityZone External Attack Surface Management (EASM), an add-on module to its
GravityZone security platform. The new tool focuses on discovering and monitoring internet-facing assets, like misconfigured cloud resources, forgotten subdomains, or exposed ports that could serve as entry points for attackers.
Built for Multi-Tenant Scale and Proactive Risk Management
For MSPs managing multiple clients with expanding cloud environments, EASM offers a scalable, multi-tenant approach. “Bitdefender GravityZone EASM gives MSPs a scalable, multi-tenant solution to uncover and manage risky internet-facing assets, such as cloud sprawl, misconfigured servers, expired certificates, and unmanaged infrastructure, across all clients,” said
Richard Tallman, Senior Director, Worldwide MSP and Cloud at Bitdefender. “The agentless, automated approach allows MSPs to proactively identify exposed and hidden assets and continuously monitor without requiring direct access to the internal environment.”
As the volume and complexity of exposed digital assets increase, EASM offers centralized oversight without requiring endpoint agents. The tool scans IPv4/IPv6 ranges, domains, and email addresses to surface exposed infrastructure. It delivers continuous monitoring and prioritizes vulnerabilities using context-aware risk scoring to support faster remediation.
“Unlike typical ASM tools that overwhelm MSPs with unfiltered alerts, Bitdefender EASM delivers prioritized, contextual insights, reducing noise and manual triage,” Tallman added. “Built-in workflows let partners tag assets, assign ownership, and manage follow-up actions directly within the platform.”
Extending Value from Existing Security Investments
For MSPs already using GravityZone for endpoint protection or XDR, EASM plugs into existing workflows with minimal overhead.
“It fills a critical gap that endpoint and XDR tools don’t address: providing an outside-in view of a company’s attack surface, including forgotten services, exposed dev environments, and unpatched web apps often overlooked by traditional security stacks,” Tallman noted. “This enables MSPs to offer differentiated, proactive services like cloud and supply chain risk monitoring with strong margin potential.”
EASM scans a wide range of asset types and delivers actionable alerts on expiring certificates, open ports, shadow IT, and third-party exposures. Integrated with the broader GravityZone platform, it supports both strategic and operational use cases, from policy enforcement and access control to threat analysis and compliance reporting.
“Through the EASM dashboard, partners can quickly assess each client’s external attack surface, prioritize critical risks, and apply repeatable workflows across environments to efficiently deliver proactive risk assessments,” said Tallman.
