What is included in Bitdefender GravityZone Security for Servers?

GravityZone Control Center – One web console for policies, tasks and server reporting.
Advanced Threat Control – Monitors running processes and flags suspicious behaviour in real time.
Advanced Anti-Exploit – Blocks exploit techniques aimed at memory corruption on servers.
Ransomware Mitigation – Detects abnormal encryption and stops it reaching your data.
Sandbox Analyzer – Sends suspicious files for automated detonation and in-depth analysis.
Important – The EDR component is a separately licensed add-on.

What are the main benefits of Bitdefender GravityZone Security for Servers?

Bitdefender GravityZone Security for Servers is a base licence that protects physical, virtual and cloud server workloads running Windows or Linux. Every protected server is managed centrally from the GravityZone Control Center web console, so there is no per-machine security interface to visit.

One console – Replaces per-server antivirus checks with a single policy view.
Lower scan overhead – Central scanning offloads work from each protected virtual machine.
Any hypervisor – No custom integration needed for VMware, Nutanix or Citrix.
Endpoint Risk Analytics – Flags misconfigured policy settings before an attacker finds them.
Content Control – Enforces web access and application rules on Windows servers.
Scheduled reporting – Exports recurring protection status reports for audits and management.

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Which company size is Bitdefender GravityZone Security for Servers suitable for?

This licence is sized by server workload, not by company headcount, so the deciding question is how many servers you run and whether they are mixed Windows and Linux. A company with two Windows servers and twenty laptops will need workstation licences alongside it, which is why the fit is only partial at the small end.

Does Bitdefender GravityZone Security for Servers meet the requirements of Swiss cybersecurity legislation?

The reporting obligation in the revised Information Security Act applies to operators of critical infrastructure, not to every Swiss company, so the first step is checking whether your organisation is in scope at all. Organisations that are in scope must report a cyberattack to the Federal Office for Cybersecurity (BACS) within 24 hours of discovery, which means a detection has to reach a responsible person quickly and the supporting evidence has to survive. Security for Servers supports that through console notifications, the quarantine record and scheduled reports, so a defender can show what was detected on which server and at what time. What the base licence does not supply is the attack narrative a report usually needs: process lineage, lateral movement and root cause come from the EDR add-on. Without EDR, a company reconstructs that sequence from server logs and its own incident notes instead. This text is general product information and not legal advice.

Does Bitdefender GravityZone Security for Servers meet the requirements of European cybersecurity legislation?

No security product makes a company NIS 2 compliant, because the directive addresses organisational duties rather than software features. NIS 2 asks entities in scope to cover risk analysis and security policies, incident handling, business continuity and backup, supply chain security, vulnerability handling and disclosure, and the use of cryptography where appropriate. Security for Servers contributes to incident handling at the server layer, to vulnerability and misconfiguration handling through Endpoint Risk Analytics, and to management review through its scheduled reports. It does not deliver business continuity or backup, it does not manage encryption or keys, and it does nothing for supply chain assessment or staff training. Those measures have to come from other tools and from internal process work, and no edition of this product family changes that.

Does Bitdefender GravityZone Security for Servers help with security questionnaires from large customers?

Yes for the server protection block, and no for most of the rest of a typical questionnaire. It answers the items on malware and ransomware protection for server workloads, centrally enforced security policy, role-based access to the security console, directory integration for administrator accounts, log forwarding to a SIEM, and evidence in the form of scheduled protection reports you can attach to the response. It does not answer the items on endpoint detection and response coverage, patch status and remediation timelines, disk encryption and key recovery, mailbox and email filtering, mobile device management, or backup and restore testing. If several of those come back as gaps, the cheaper route is usually to extend within the GravityZone family, since the EDR, Patch Management and Full Disk Encryption add-ons attach to the same base licence and report into the same console, rather than introducing a second vendor with its own agent and its own evidence format.

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What is the difference between Security for Servers and Security for Workstations?

The decisive difference is the machine type each licence is allowed to protect: Security for Servers covers server workloads, Security for Workstations covers user devices. Everything else is close to identical, because both are base licences in the same GravityZone family, both are administered from the same Control Center, and both take the same optional add-ons. Neither one includes the EDR component in the base licence. In a mixed estate you buy both and manage them from a single console, rather than choosing between them.

Which limitations should you know before buying?

The licence covers server workloads only, so desktops, laptops and Macs are not protected by it and need their own licence type. The three components that most often trigger a follow-up purchase are the EDR add-on, Patch Management and Full Disk Encryption, none of which is part of the base licence even though buyers frequently assume otherwise. Microsoft Exchange mailbox protection and storage protection for network shares are also separate modules rather than included features. Module availability is not identical across operating systems either: the Windows agent exposes a wider set of policy modules than the Linux agent, so check the module list against the distributions you actually run before you standardise a policy. If your servers are running an operating system version that is close to end of support, resolve that first, because agent support follows vendor support.

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Frequently asked questions about Bitdefender GravityZone Security for Servers

Does this licence protect Microsoft Exchange mailboxes?

No. Exchange Protection is a separate GravityZone module with its own antimalware, antispam and content filtering for the mail flow. Security for Servers protects the Windows Server operating system underneath Exchange, but it does not scan mailboxes or the message queue.

Can detections be forwarded to a SIEM?

Yes. GravityZone provides documented integrations for Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, IBM QRadar, Sumo Logic, FortiSIEM, Elastic SIEM and LogRhythm, plus a generic path for SIEM platforms without an HTTPS listener. This matters if your log retention requirement is longer than what you want to keep in the security console.

How does the scanning architecture reduce load on virtual machines?

Instead of running a full scanning engine inside every virtual machine, a lightweight agent hands scan requests to a dedicated Security Virtual Appliance. Caching means the same file is not scanned repeatedly across machines that share a base image, which is why virtual desktop and high-density virtualisation environments see the biggest difference.