Bitdefender, a global cybersecurity leader, today announced GravityZone AI Visibility and Control, a new solution that gives organizations and managed service providers (MSPs) visibility into employee AI tool usage and the ability to proactively reduce the risks it creates. It is designed to secure one of the fastest-growing attack surfaces, enabling safe AI adoption without adding operational complexity.

Adoption of AI has outpaced most organizations’ ability to secure it. In a global survey of 1,200 cybersecurity practitioners, nearly half of organizations (47%) lack full visibility into employee AI tool usage. Additionally, Gartner® predicts, “By 2030, over 40% of enterprises will suffer security or compliance incidents linked to unauthorized shadow AI.”¹

To address this challenge, Bitdefender built GravityZone AI Visibility and Control as an add-on to GravityZone, the company’s flagship unified security, risk management, and compliance platform. GravityZone delivers endpoint detection and response (EDR), extended detection and response (XDR), cloud-native security, and GravityZone PHASR (Proactive Hardening and Attack Surface Reduction), a first-to-market dynamic attack surface reduction innovation. The platform provides deep security context for detections and a seamless path to Bitdefender Managed Detection and Response (MDR) services. The launch marks a key step in Bitdefender’s commitment to simplify security across customer operations in the AI era.

GravityZone AI Visibility and Control uses the GravityZone agent to scan for AI tools and applications across environments. It assesses and assigns risk levels to each finding, giving IT and security teams the context needed to prioritize and remediate the highest-priority exposures.

Key Benefits:

  • Uncover Shadow AI and Reduce Visibility Gaps — Detect sanctioned and unsanctioned AI tools running across the environment, including chatbots, local LLMs, coding assistants, autonomous agents, Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, and AI-enabled SaaS, giving security teams a clear, comprehensive inventory of AI usage.
  • Assess Risk and Enforce AI Governance — Rank AI usage by risk level to prioritize unknown, high-risk activity over routine business use, then enforce established policy through GravityZone controls such as application control and web filtering to allow, restrict, or block AI tools based on that risk.
  • Apply Dynamic Hardening Based on AI Behavior — Paired with GravityZone PHASR, GravityZone AI Visibility and Control feeds 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 manual tuning.
  • Consolidate AI and Endpoint Security in a Single Platform — Proactively manage AI risk alongside existing attack surfaces within one platform used for threat prevention, detection, and response, avoiding the added cost and complexity of a standalone solution.

AI-enabled attacks now move at machine speed, shortening the time between initial compromise and impact. A reactive detection and response strategy alone is not enough. Organizations must adopt a prevention-first approach, disrupting attacks as early as possible and closing opportunities for compromise before they can be exploited.

“AI adoption is moving faster than most security teams can manage, leaving organizations exposed to risks they can’t see,” said Daniel Daraban, vice president of products, Bitdefender Business Solutions Group. “Closing that gap requires a prevention-first security mindset that identifies and stops threats up front, before they ever reach detection and response or higher defense layers. GravityZone AI Visibility and Control brings that same mindset to AI, so organizations can embrace it with confidence and without unnecessary risk or overhead.”

Availability

Bitdefender GravityZone AI Visibility and Control is available now for new and existing customers on Windows, with support for additional operating systems planned. For more information, visit our website.

¹Gartner, How to Govern AI Risks Across Your Third-Party Network, Nicholas Sworek, 18 February 2026.

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About Bitdefender

Bitdefender is a cybersecurity leader delivering best-in-class threat prevention, detection, and response solutions worldwide. Guardian over millions of consumer, enterprise, and government environments, Bitdefender is one of the industry’s most trusted experts for eliminating threats, protecting privacy, digital identity and data, and enabling cyber resilience. With deep investments in research and development, Bitdefender Labs discovers hundreds of new threats each minute and validates billions of threat queries daily. The company has pioneered breakthrough innovations in antimalware, IoT security, behavioral analytics, and artificial intelligence and its technology is licensed by more than 180 of the world’s most recognized technology brands. Founded in 2001, Bitdefender has customers in 170+ countries with offices around the world. For more information, visit https://www.bitdefender.com.

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