New proactive IT security adapts to attack surfaces 

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Bitdefender today introduced its new GravityZone Proactive Hardening and Attack Surface Reduction (PHASR). GravityZone PHASR analyzes individual user behavior, such as application usage or resource access privileges, and clusters users into groups with similar behavior patterns.

With this solution, Bitdefender offers the industry's first dynamic solution that directly aligns cyber defense strategies with user behavior. This novel approach ensures that IT security policies and controls are precisely tailored to the privileges and behaviors that an IT security manager wants to give users. As the attack surface changes, the guidelines are dynamically adjusted. This new technology creates new foundations for applying and managing defense-in-depth security in companies.

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IT security identifies user roles

Thanks to GravityZone PHASR, IT security teams can anticipate and mitigate emerging risks before they escalate, as the technology immediately adapts to new user roles. This ensures that security measures always correspond to the new threat situation. If, for example, a user's responsibilities change or a new attack technique emerges, the new technology automatically suggests adapted policies to maintain protection. Such a proactive approach enables companies to drastically reduce changing attack surfaces.

GravityZone PHASR integrates a completely new technology into Bitdefender's comprehensive IT security and risk analysis platform Gravity Zone. The technology is based on years of sophisticated machine learning (ML) models that PHASR applies to individual users, groups, applications and endpoints within Bitdefender GravityZone XDR. It uses proprietary AI algorithms to establish behavioral norms across groups for critical areas such as access to data, use of applications and security-relevant permissions. As a result, the solution comprehensively assesses vulnerabilities and potential attack vectors.

The main advantages of GravityZone PHASR

• Dynamically adaptable security controlstailored to each company – GravityZone PHASR is integrated into GravityZone endpoint security and risk analysis and correlates user behavior with known threats and attacks. The basic factors for this are the type of work a user does, the company's industry and their region. As a result, the defense of the attack surface is configured in the best possible way and risks are minimized without compromising operational efficiency.
• Fundamental shift to proactive prevention and hardening of the IT environment – The technology identifies and closes security gaps before attackers can exploit them. The solution delivers hardened IT security specifically for user groups, endpoints and all external users connected to the company network and recommends measures to the responsible IT administrators such as blocking suspicious users or applications. To accept these, they need a single mouse click.
• Optimized security investments – GravityZone PHASR increases the impact of security investments by identifying and implementing necessary new policies to achieve the greatest impact for reduced overall risk, especially changes resulting from supply chain attacks, insider threats, and mergers and acquisitions.

Security teams face the difficult task of keeping up with increasingly sophisticated and frequent attacks. The current focus of IT security models and the industry exacerbates this problem: it focuses too much on detection and defense, and tries to use overarching standard approaches to protect the ever-growing attack surface and manage IT exposure and endpoint security.

New approaches to dynamic IT security

"The attack surface is growing, making it increasingly difficult for security teams to keep up with the ever-changing risks in the company, posed by employees, customers, external third parties and various systems," said Andrei Florescu, President and General Manager of Bitdefender Business Solutions Group. "GravityZone PHASR creates a new foundation here and is in line with Bitdefender's approach of providing a holistic view of risk in a unified platform. This approach improves IT security automation, enables real-time control of risk situations and strengthens defenses to stay one step ahead of constantly changing attacks."

Bitdefender GravityZone PHASR will be available to a select group of customers as part of the GravityZone Early Access program to meet the growing demand for proactive protection and attack surface reduction.

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