Bitdefender, a global cybersecurity leader, has officially announced the launch of a GravityZone Compliance Manager, which builds upon the company’ GravityZone platform to help organizations reduce the burden of compliance, and at the same time, streamline audit readiness.
According to certain reports, this Compliance Manager arrives bearing an ability to provide real-time visibility, automated remediation, audit-ready reports, and one-click compliance documentation fully integrated with Bitdefender endpoint security and risk analytics.
To understand the significance of such a development, we must take into account one Gartner research, which advises companies to combine compliance and risk management effectively through the implementation of impact-based assessments and automated, continuous monitoring capabilities. As for why they need to do so, it is because financial consequences of non-compliance are severe, with fines up to €20 million or 4% of global annual turnover under GDPR and $100 thousand per month under PCI DSS.
Against that, GravityZone Compliance Manager not just unifies compliance, risk, and security operations in a single platform, but it also delivers real-time compliance scoring, automated reporting, and guided remediation, doing it all without the need for specialized in-house expertise.
“GravityZone Compliance Manager performed well for us during early access. The continuous monitoring and assessment feature reduced our reliance on manual scans, saving valuable time. Because it’s integrated into our existing security stack, we’ve avoided the additional cost and complexity of using external tools. It has simplified our operations by eliminating the need for multiple point solutions,” said Alin Paunescu, chief information security officer at Patria Bank.
Talk about the whole value proposition on a slightly deeper level, we begin from the promise of automated audit-ready reports that can be accessed within a matter of few seconds. This translates to how GravityZone Compliance Manager automates evidence collection and eliminates all reporting complexity to speed up the proceedings. Structured for auditor review, the final report will also pack together an executive summary of the organization’s overall compliance score, a breakdown of compliant versus non-compliant checks, and a risk overview detailing the severity of high, medium, and low risks.
Next up, we must expand the solution’s potential in terms of centralizing security, risk management, and compliance. The new innovation basically adds compliance management to a foundation that already includes prevention, detection, response, and risk analytics. In case that wasn’t enough, it also taps into Bitdefender Proactive Hardening and Attack Surface Reduction (PHASR) to proactively reduce exposure by disabling unused or risky system tools.
The idea here is to let organizations harden their environments and stay compliant. Not just that, when risks are resolved, compliance status also updates automatically to streamline operations and improve upon the organizations’ overall cybersecurity posture.
Another detail worth a mention is rooted in the solution’s bid to support major industry and geo specific compliance standards. You see, GravityZone Compliance Manager can provide immediate visibility into endpoint compliance posture, as well as optimizes regulatory alignment with out-of-the-box support for major frameworks, including region and industry-specific standards such as GDPR, HIPAA, DORA, NIS 2 Directive, PCI DSS, SOC 2, and more.
As a result, businesses can expect to quickly identify and remediate compliance gaps with a single click. They can also drill down further into specific standards or benchmarks to view detailed information on associated risks and affected assets.
Founded in 2001, Bitdefender’s rise up the ranks stems from being one of the industry’s most trusted experts for eliminating threats, protecting privacy, digital identity and data, and enabling cyber resilience. Bitdefender’s excellence in what it does can also be understood once you consider its technology is licensed by more than 180 of the world’s most recognized technology brands, brands that stretch across 170+ countries.
“The consequences of non-compliance, including financial loss, operational disruption, and reputational damage, rival those of a data breach or ransomware attack, yet most businesses lack the resources or specialized talent needed to manage compliance with confidence,” said Andrei Florescu, president and general manager of Bitdefender Business Solutions Group. “GravityZone Compliance Manager is a game-changer that consolidates compliance, risk management, and endpoint security on a single platform, enabling businesses to meet regulatory demands effortlessly and reduce complexity to strengthen cyber resilience.”
