Gravityzone Cloud Management Console (Overview)

Bitdefender Gravityzone Advanced Business Security
​(Cloud Edition)

GravityZone is a business security solution built from ground-up for virtualization and cloud to deliver security services to physical endpoints, virtual machines in private, public cloud and Exchange mail servers. 

GravityZone is one product with a unified management console available in the cloud, hosted by Bitdefender, or as one virtual appliance to be installed on premise, and it provides a single point for deploying, enforcing and managing security policies for any number of endpoints and of any type, in any location. ​

GravityZone delivers multiple layers of security for endpoints, including Microsoft Exchange mail servers: antimalware with behavioral monitoring, zero day threat protection, application control and sandboxing, firewall, device control, content control, anti-phishing and antispam. 

Web Console (Control Center) 

Bitdefender security solutions are managed within GravityZone from a single point of management, Control Center web console, which provides easier management and access to overall security posture, global security threats, and control over all security modules protecting virtual or physical desktops and servers. Powered by a Gravity Architecture, Control Center is capable of addressing the needs of even the largest organizations.
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Control Center, a web-based interface, integrates with the existing system management and monitoring systems to make it simple to apply protection to unmanaged desktops and servers. 

Bitdefender Endpoint Security Tools 

GravityZone ensures physical and virtual machines protection with Bitdefender Endpoint Security Tools, an intelligent environment-aware security agent capable to automatically self-configure according to the endpoint type. Bitdefender Endpoint Security Tools can be deployed on any machine, either virtual or physical, providing a flexible scanning system, being an ideal choice for mixed environments (physical, virtual and cloud).

In addition to file system protection, Bitdefender Endpoint Security Tools also includes mail server protection for Microsoft Exchange Servers.
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Bitdefender Endpoint Security Tools uses one single policy template for physical and virtual machines, and one installation kit source for any environment (physical or virtual). Bitdefender Endpoint Security Tools is also available for Linux physical endpoints (servers and desktops). 

Scanning Engines 

1. The scanning engines are automatically set during Bitdefender Endpoint Security Tools packages creation, letting the endpoint agent detect the machine's configuration and adapt the scanning technology accordingly. The administrator can also customize the scan engines, being able to choose between several scanning technologies:
   1. Local Scan, when the scanning is performed on the local endpoint. The local scanning mode is suited for powerful machines, having all signatures and engines stored locally.
   2. Hybrid Scan with Light Engines (Public Cloud), with a medium footprint, using in-the-cloud scanning and, partially, the local signatures. This scanning mode brings the benefit of better resources consumption, while involving off-premise scanning.
   3. ​Central Scan in Private Cloud, with a small footprint requiring a Security Server for scanning. In this case, no signature set is stored locally, and the scanning is offloaded on the Security Server.
   4. Central Scan (Private Cloud scanning with Security Server) with fallback* on Local Scan (Full Engines)
   5. Central Scan (Private Cloud scanning with Security Server) with fallback* on Hybrid Scan (Public Cloud with Light Engines)

* When using a dual engines scanning, if the first engine is unavailable, the fallback engine will be used. Resource consumption and network utilization will be based on used engines. 

Protection Modules  ​

The following protection modules are available with Bitdefender Endpoint Security Tools:
●  Antimalware
●  Advanced Threat Control
●  Firewall
●  Content Control
●  Device Control
●  Power User 

Download the Full User Installation Guide here.