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Compliance Manager – Bitdefender TechZone

Abstract

GravityZone Compliance Manager streamlines regulatory adherence by mapping IT controls to standards like GDPR, ISO 27001, and NIS2. It offers real-time endpoint evaluations, actionable recommendations and remediation steps, and audit-ready reports.

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 proactively identify and mitigate security risks, reducing the likelihood of data breaches.

GravityZone Compliance Manager

GravityZone Compliance Manager provides real-time evaluation of endpoint compliance posture through built-in mappings that link requirements from compliance standards (e.g., ISO 27001, GDPR, NIS2*) to technical controls on Windows and Linux endpoints. For example, the NIS2 encryption requirement (Article 21, Paragraph 2) translates to practical technical controls, such as the presence of a TPM module on a Windows machine.

Each technical control comes with clear, actionable steps and recommendations for maintaining compliance with the selected standard. Furthermore, audit-ready reports are available to help external auditors or internal management track all modifications and demonstrate the effectiveness of your risk reduction initiatives and ongoing compliance.

Compliance Standards and Frameworks

GravityZone Compliance Manager provides the following compliance standards and frameworks:

  • Bitdefender Cyber Hygiene Baseline for Windows: A streamlined set of the most basic security alignment for Windows systems, offering organizations essential visibility into their endpoint cyber hygiene without needing 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.

Compliance Posture Management

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

The Compliance Manager is easily accessible directly from the GravityZone console, located within the dedicated Compliance Manager tab in the Risk Management section.

From the console, you can pivot and view detailed information about individual control names mapped to selected compliance standards or frameworks, the specific sections they belong to, the score assigned to each control and the compliance overview details (overall percentage and indicating compliant, non-compliant, and ignored checks). You can choose any control to view its associated details, risks, and affected assets across all your 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.

Audit-Ready Compliance Reports

For compliance standards or frameworks, you can generate audit-ready reports in PDF or XLSX format 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 for external auditors or internal management.

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More Resources

Bitdefender Compliance Manager official website: GravityZone Compliance Manager

Learn more about cybersecurity compliance on our official webpage here.

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