Introducing GravityZone Compliance Manager

Regulatory compliance goes beyond legal obligations; it is a strategic approach to managing cyber risks and demonstrating the value of cybersecurity investments. You can use these regulations to identify, assess, and mitigate risks. By leveraging compliance reports and frameworks, you can reduce the likelihood of data breaches, stay ahead of evolving regulatory demands, and strengthen your overall security posture. 

Introducing Compliance Manager 

The GravityZone Compliance Manager simplifies and enhances your compliance efforts, transforming a complex task into a streamlined, automated process. It offers continuous evaluation, going beyond periodic checks to provide real-time insights into your endpoint compliance posture, helping you manage risk and reduce your attack surface.  

You no longer have to manually translate between compliance standards and technical controls, thanks to built-in mappings that directly link general requirements from standards such as ISO 27001, GDPR, or NIS2* to specific technical controls on your endpoints. For example, NIS2's encryption requirement (Article 21, Paragraph 2), translates into concrete technical controls, such as verifying the presence of a TPM module on a Windows machine.  

Audit-ready reports clearly map technical controls to the relevant compliance standards. These reports are invaluable for demonstrating the effectiveness of your risk reduction initiatives, whether for external auditors or your internal management. 

GravityZone Compliance Manager provides simplified compliance management through real-time visibility into your compliance status, enabling the proactive identification of gaps and ensuring you stay ahead of regulatory requirements. It automates the assessment of compliance regulations, giving you complete control over your endpoints' security. 

Compliance Standards and Frameworks 

With the general release, for all your cloud and on-premises endpoints, you will have access from the GravityZone console to the following compliance standards and frameworks: 

• Bitdefender Cyber Hygiene Baseline for Windows: A streamlined set of the most basic security alignment for Windows systems, providing organizations with essential visibility into their endpoint cyber hygiene without requiring deep compliance expertise.
• CIS Critical Security Controls (CISv8): A community-driven framework providing a prioritized list of cybersecurity safeguards to enhance the foundational security of IT systems and data. 
• CMMC 2.0: A U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) framework designed to enhance the cybersecurity posture of the Defense Industrial Base (DIB). It establishes a tiered model for assessing and certifying the implementation of cybersecurity practices to protect Federal Contract Information (FCI) and Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI). 
• DORA: EU Framework to Enhance Resilience in the Financial Sector (Banks, payment providers, insurers, crypto-asset service providers, and third-party ICT providers – direct oversight).
• General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR): EU regulation that requires organizations to protect the personal data and privacy of EU citizens. It includes requirements for data processing, consent, data subject rights, and breach notification. 
• HIPAA: A U.S. law that sets national standards for protecting sensitive patient health information. It governs the privacy and security of medical data, outlining requirements for healthcare providers, health plans, and healthcare clearinghouses regarding the handling, storage, and transmission of Protected Health Information (PHI). 
• ISO 27001: Framework for implementing an Information Security Management System (ISMS). It helps organizations manage and protect sensitive information, such as customer data, financial information, and intellectual property. 
• NIS 2 Directive: EU cybersecurity directive aimed at improving the security of networks and information systems across various sectors. It establishes measures for risk management, incident reporting, and cooperation between EU member states to enhance the overall resilience of critical infrastructure. 
• PCI DSS v4.0.1: A global standard for organizations that handle credit card information. It mandates technical and operational requirements to protect cardholder data, focusing on security controls for storing, processing, and transmitting payment card details. 
• SOC 2: A reporting framework for organizations handling sensitive customer data, evaluating their controls across security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy principles. 

You don't need to install or upgrade anything on the endpoint side to immediately view findings (misconfigurations) and user behavior risks identified by the Risk Management module and mapped to compliance standards and frameworks. 

Compliance Manager Availability 

GravityZone Compliance Manager is accessible to all customers with access to Risk Management. This includes a Basic Compliance standard offering guidelines, real-time insights into your endpoint compliance posture via the Bitdefender Cyber Hygiene Baseline for Windows standard, and an exportable report. You will also gain preview access to all compliance standards and frameworks listed above, although full details and export reports for those standards are not available at this level. 

For comprehensive access to advanced standards, a Compliance Manager Add-on license is required. This license unlocks a broader set of standards and frameworks, such as GDPR, PCI DSS, SOC 2, and DORA, providing detailed guidelines, real-time insights into endpoint compliance posture, and full exportable reports for each. 

Managing Compliance Posture 

The Compliance Manager is available directly from the GravityZone console in the Compliance Manager tab within the Risk Management section. 

You can choose the type of compliance standards or frameworks you want to view to see the control details. After selecting a control on the compliance page, you can view Details, Risks, and Affected Assets among all your cloud and on-premises endpoints. 

Each finding related to compliance standards or frameworks comes with clear, actionable remediation techniques, including manual and automatic options. While specific threats might require manual intervention, you will find detailed, step-by-step guidance for fixing the risk in the dedicated Risk Mitigation section. For issues that can be resolved automatically, with a single Fix risk button you can simply create a task to mitigate them by changing the configuration, ensuring efficient and timely resolution of compliance gaps. 

You can generate a PDF or XLSX report, which is available in the top-right section. Both reports include all the information available on the main dashboard in the Compliance Manager section and can be used to track all modifications and demonstrate the effectiveness of your risk reduction initiatives.

Summary 

Bitdefender GravityZone Compliance Manager strengthens your organization's security posture, simplifies compliance efforts, and streamlines audit readiness. It provides clear insights into key industry standards such as GDPR, the NIS Directive, CIS Controls, SOC 2, and ISO 27001*, enabling proactive risk identification and mitigation. As part of the unified GravityZone platform, it eliminates the need for multiple tools, streamlining operations and reducing complexity.  

Learn more about cybersecurity compliance on our official webpage here. 

* The standards, guidelines, and baselines that GravityZone Compliance Manager takes into consideration are listed to a limited extent in the Compliance Manager section of your GravityZone console under the Risk Management stand-alone menu. 

Legal Notice 
Bitdefender’s GravityZone Compliance Manager compliance features and reports are designed to help organizations with compliance-related security activities, in particular with assessing and helping maintain compliance with its listed standards and baselines, but can neither fully replace internal efforts nor guarantee that an organization will pass a compliance audit. Bitdefender recommends that you work with an approved auditor to obtain any official compliance certifications.