Bitdefender announces GravityZone AI Visibility and Control, a new solution that provides organizations and managed service providers (MSPs) with visibility into employee use of AI tools and the ability to proactively reduce the risks this creates. This solution has been designed to protect one of the fastest growing attack surfaces, enabling secure adoption of AI without adding operational complexity.
AI adoption is outpacing the ability of most organizations to protect it. A global survey of more than 1,200 cybersecurity professionals finds that nearly half of organizations (47%) lack complete visibility into the AI tools their employees use. Furthermore, Gartner® predicts that by 2030, more than 40% of companies will experience security or compliance incidents related to unauthorized AI.
Company flagship platform
To address this challenge, Bitdefender has developed GravityZone AI Visibility and Control as a complement to GravityZone, the company’s flagship platform for unified security, risk management and regulatory compliance. GravityZone offers Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), Extended Detection and Response (XDR), cloud-native security, and GravityZone PHASR (Proactive Hardening and Attack Surface Reduction), an innovative, first-to-market dynamic attack surface reduction solution. The platform provides deep security context for detections and a direct connection to Bitdefender’s managed detection and response (MDR) services. This launch is a decisive step in Bitdefender’s commitment to simplify the security of its customers’ operations in the age of AI.
GravityZone AI Visibility and Control uses the GravityZone agent to search AI tools and applications in different environments, evaluating and assigning risk levels to each finding. In this way, it provides IT and security teams with the necessary context to prioritize and remediate vulnerabilities.
Key benefits
· Expose Shadow AI and reduce visibility gaps: Detects authorized and unauthorized AI tools running throughout the environment, including chatbots, on-premise LLMs, coding assistants, autonomous agents, Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, and AI-enabled SaaS, providing security teams with a clear and complete inventory of AI usage.
· Assess risk and apply AI governance: Classify AI use by risk level to prioritize unknown and high-risk activity in the day-to-day business; then applying policies established through GravityZone controls, such as application control and web filtering, which allow you to restrict or block AI tools based on their risk.
· Apply dynamic hardening based on AI behavior: Together with GravityZone PHASR, GravityZone AI Visibility and Control provides telemetry that establishes a behavioral baseline for AI agents, and continuously adjusts security hardening in response to AI activity and established rules, reducing exposure without the need for manual adjustments.
GravityZone is the company’s flagship platform for delivering unified security to organizations
· Consolidate AI and endpoint security into a single platform: Proactively manage AI risk along with existing attack surfaces in a single platform used for threat prevention, detection and response, avoiding the added costs and complexity of a standalone solution.
AI-enabled attacks now move at machine speed, shortening the time between initial breach and impact. A reactive detection and response strategy alone is not sufficient. Organizations should take a prevention-first approach, disrupting attacks as soon as possible and shutting down
