Bitdefender is expanding its position as a leading cyber security provider for businesses, managed service providers and end users. Bitdefender Business Solutions Group Accelerated Growth; New managed services and improved partner program.
Bitdefender Business Solutions Group had an exceptionally successful 2020. Bitdefender technologies and services for enterprise endpoint protection have grown at double the rate of the market as a whole. This trend corresponds to a greater demand for modern endpoint protection, secure cloud workloads and advanced services that quickly identify, counter and combat the evolving threats.
"Over the past year we have continuously developed our offering for companies, helping thousands of companies to become more resilient to cyberattacks during the pandemic," said Steve Kelley, President and General Manager of Bitdefender Business Solutions Group. “With our offers, they were able to meet key criteria for secure business processes. These resulted from an expanded attack surface because employees were working more at home and the IT workloads were relocated to the cloud. This created opportunities for attacks on the business infrastructure. As a result, our business in the corporate division grew extraordinarily. We are ready to accelerate this pace even further. Because we have developed the software and services that help to respond to cyber attacks quickly. "
Bitdefender presented new offers in 2020
New services for managed detection and managed response
Bitdefender has introduced new Managed Detection and Response (MDR) services for businesses and government agencies. These services and the threat-hunting experts behind them continuously prevent attacks and, in an emergency, help to restore IT - in cloud and on-premises structures. Users benefit from threat intelligence in almost real time. Bitdefender remotely measures data from millions of endpoints around the world, transmits it to the Bitdefender Security Operation Center (SOC) and examines it there.
Growth of the partner business thanks to the new cloud offering
The Bitdefender partner ecosystem grew by over 2020 percent in 17. The coverage of the remotely managed and monitored systems grew by over 140 percent. At the same time, the security provider gained important partners such as Atera, intY, Pax8 and Synnex Corporation. The growth was also based on the new cloud-based Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) offering for companies, managed service providers (MSP) and their customers. Because companies are shifting more and more payloads to the cloud.
Hypervisor protection
Bitdefender made an important contribution to cloud security with Hypervisor Introspection (HVI) for the open source market. With this, the company delivered a fundamentally new approach to fending off attacks on virtual machines.
discoverer
Bitdefender Labs and its research and reverse malware engineering specialists have found several significant threats, vulnerabilities, malicious phishing campaigns and malware variants over the past XNUMX months. With FunnyDream, the experts were the first to observe an advanced persistent threat (APT) that is important in the Asia-Pacific region and attacked both companies and government agencies.
Growth in corporate business
Bitdefender accelerated its growth in the fourth quarter of 2020. Compared to the same period last year, business grew more than 40 percent in various core markets such as healthcare, retail and manufacturing. In terms of personnel, the company strengthened itself comprehensively up to management level and in the areas of engineering, sales, marketing and other important areas.
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About Bitdefender Bitdefender is a leading global provider of cybersecurity solutions and antivirus software, protecting over 500 million systems in more than 150 countries. Since it was founded in 2001, the company's innovations have consistently ensured excellent security products and intelligent protection for devices, networks and cloud services for private customers and companies. As the supplier of choice, Bitdefender technology is found in 38 percent of security solutions deployed around the world and is trusted and recognized by industry experts, manufacturers and customers alike. www.bitdefender.de