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Bitdefender, a global leader in cybersecurity, today announced the launch of new Family Plans for several of its consumer security product lines. The new plans offer the industry’s first option for personalizing and centrally managing security, identity protection, and privacy solution based on a family member’s unique role and digital life protection needs. This innovation addresses the need for personalized security across multiple devices as cybercrime and online fraud increase globally.

Bitdefender, a global cybersecurity leader, and Techs + Together, a global managed service provider (MSP) community designed to empower MSPs through collective knowledge and shared experiences, today announced a distribution partnership which allows Techs + Together to provide managed service providers (MSPs) and their business customers with Bitdefender’s full suite of cybersecurity solutions, including extended detection and response (XDR) and managed detection and response (MDR). The partnership enables seamless deployment, flexible licensing, and advanced threat protection tailored to diverse business environments.

Bitdefender, a global cybersecurity leader, today announced that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has awarded the Bitdefender Partner Advantage Network with a 5-star rating in its 2025 Partner Program Guide – marking the tenth consecutive year Bitdefender has achieved the guide’s top rating.

Bitdefender, a global cybersecurity leader, today announced it has joined the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Accelerate Program, a global co-sell initiative designed for AWS partners offering software solutions that run on or integrate with AWS and are sold through the AWS Marketplace. The program fosters deep collaboration between Bitdefender and AWS, helping businesses seamlessly integrate Bitdefender’s endpoint protection, cloud security, and other solutions into their AWS deployments.

Bitdefender, a global cybersecurity leader, today announced that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Dan Russell, Senior Director of North America Channels, to its prestigious CRN® Channel Chiefs list for the second straight year. The designation also marks the 11th consecutive year CRN has featured at least one Bitdefender channel executive on its annual Channel Chiefs roster.

Bitdefender, a global cybersecurity leader, today launched a new Technology Alliance Partner program. The program simplifies and streamlines building, testing, validating, and documenting interoperability between partner technologies and the Bitdefender GravityZone Platform. The Technology Alliance Partner program empowers Bitdefender customers to enhance their security operations by seamlessly integrating best-of-breed technologies into their ecosystem and offers resellers and managed service providers (MSPs) new opportunities to sell validated interoperating solutions for seamless functionality in complex, multi-vendor environments.

Bitdefender, a global leader in cybersecurity, today announced its exceptional performance in the AV-Comparatives Business Security Test earning a prestigious Approved Business Product Award. Bitdefender emerged as the only cybersecurity vendor (out of 17 participants) to achieve a 100% protection rate, blocking all 483 test cases during evaluations. Additionally, the company attained a near-perfect (98.8%) score for protecting systems against infection by malicious files before, during, or after execution.

Bitdefender, a global cybersecurity leader, today announced exceptional results in the 2024 MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK® Enterprise Evaluations. Bitdefender demonstrated unmatched efficiency, requiring an average of just three alerts to identify and report incidents to the security operations center (SOC), far surpassing the median of 209 alerts from other tested solutions. The evaluations, conducted through rigorous independent tests simulating adversary behavior and techniques, assessed the detection and protection capabilities of 19 participating vendors. This year, MITRE introduced two new key metrics—‘Total Alerts Generated’ and ‘False Positives’—to better measure the actionability and effectiveness of vendor solutions.

Bitdefender, a global cybersecurity leader, today announced enhancements to its GravityZone XDR platform with the addition of its new Business Applications sensor, designed to protect corporate data hosted and stored in cloud-based productivity and collaboration applications. The sensor will initially support Atlassian cloud applications including Confluence, Jira, and Bitbucket, with plans to extend to other popular software-as-a-service (SaaS) platforms frequently used in business operations.

Bitdefender, a global cybersecurity leader, today announced a new cybersecurity breach warranty program for businesses that adopt its managed detection and response (MDR) services. The program, which offers up to $1 million in financial compensation in the wake of security incidents impacting operations, is delivered through a partnership with Cysurance.

Bitdefender, a global cybersecurity leader, today announced the launch of Scam Copilot, an advanced technology platform powered by artificial intelligence (AI) and designed to detect and fight scams along with fraud attempts across devices including computers, tablets, and mobile phones. The platform has been integrated into several Bitdefender digital life protection consumer products adding another powerful layer of defense to protect against malware, credential stealing, and data theft.

Bitdefender, a global cybersecurity leader, was named a Visionary in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms (EPP).¹ Bitdefender was among 15 vendors that Gartner evaluated.

Bitdefender, a global cybersecurity leader, today unveiled Bitdefender GravityZone Proactive Hardening and Attack Surface Reduction (PHASR), a groundbreaking technology that transforms how defense-in-depth-security is applied and managed across businesses. GravityZone PHASR analyzes individual user behavior such as application use, resource privileges, and others, clustering users into groups with similar patterns. This approach ensures security policies and controls are mapped precisely to user intended privileges and behaviors, dynamically adjusting as the attack surface evolves.

Bitdefender, a global cybersecurity leader, today unveiled Bitdefender Security for Creators, a service specifically designed for digital content producers, online creative professionals and social media influencers who are prime targets for account takeovers, fraud, and other cybercrimes. Initially the new offering protects YouTube accounts with additional platform support such as Facebook, TikTok, Instagram and others to follow.

Bitdefender, a global cybersecurity leader, today announced it has expanded its collaboration with Arrow Electronics to deliver a broader range of powerful threat prevention, detection and response solutions to managed service providers (MSPs) and their customers.

Bitdefender, a global cybersecurity leader, today announced an expanded partnership with Pax8, delivering a broader range of powerful threat prevention, detection and response solutions to managed service providers (MSPs) and their business customers. Bitdefender will offer its full range of Bitdefender GravityZone Cloud MSP Security Solutions along with the flexibility to add security offerings to service bundles on an a la carte basis.

Bitdefender, a global cybersecurity leader, today announced results for the 2024 MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK Evaluation for Managed Services, an evaluation of 11 participating cybersecurity vendors in their ability to detect, analyze, and describe adversary behavior. Bitdefender was a top performer achieving near total coverage of all steps (no vendor achieved complete coverage) with highest actionable insights, without excessive alerts to the security operation teams.

Bitdefender, a leading global cybersecurity company today released the 2024 Cybersecurity Assessment Report, based on an independent survey and analysis of cybersecurity professionals revealing top security concerns, practices, and key challenges businesses are facing across their environments.

Bitdefender, a global cybersecurity leader, today announced it has joined the Global Anti-Scam Alliance (GASA), a large consortium with the goal to strategize protection of consumers from fraud, as a Foundation and Advisory Board Member. The partnership is designed to help combat a sharp increase of sophisticated online and mobile-based (SMS) scams, particularly with the rise in readily available generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications, through public awareness/education campaigns, collaborative research, shared insights and technology applications.

Bitdefender, a global cybersecurity leader, and NinjaOne®, a leading IT platform for endpoint management, security, and visibility, today announced an integration of their next-generation endpoint protection and management solutions. The integration brings IT and security closer together, allowing organizations to quickly and easily secure all endpoints and strengthen their security posture.

Bitdefender, a global leader in cybersecurity, today announced the launch of Bitdefender Voyager Ventures (BVV), a new investment initiative dedicated to financing and nurturing the next generation of startups in cybersecurity, data analytics, automation, and artificial intelligence (AI). BVV has a global mandate, with an emphasis on Europe, and will focus on investment opportunities at the seed or Series A stage where it can act as either lead or co-investor.

Bitdefender, a global cybersecurity leader, today unveiled the newest evolution of its Managed Detection & Response Services now offered in two distinct tiers (MDR and MDR PLUS) tailored for a customer’s specific needs, environments, and risk factors such as industry, geography, supply chains and more.

Bitdefender, a global cybersecurity leader, today announced it has enhanced Bitdefender Digital Identity Protection, a comprehensive service that monitors personal data in real-time by proactively scanning the internet including public sites, dark web, and underground forums for unauthorized leaks and data breaches that may put user accounts and identity at risk. The service now connects to Google Gmail and Microsoft Outlook webmail providers to significantly expand monitoring reach and give users a more complete view and better control of their digital footprint (including old and forgotten accounts).

Bitdefender, a leading global cybersecurity company today released the 2024 Consumer Cybersecurity Assessment Report, based on an independent survey of over 7,000 consumers revealing top security behaviors, practices and concerns across their digital footprint and lifestyle.

Bitdefender, a global cybersecurity leader, today announced that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, once again has awarded the Bitdefender Partner Advantage Network with a prestigious 5-star rating in its 2024 Partner Program Guide. This marks the ninth consecutive year Bitdefender has achieved the guide’s top rating.

Bitdefender, a global cybersecurity leader, today announced it earned six prestigious awards including two for Best Protection for Windows (enterprise), Best Performance for Windows (enterprise), Best Protection for Windows (consumer), Best MacOS Security (consumer), and Best Android Security (consumer) from AV-TEST, an industry-recognized independent IT security testing institution. Bitdefender solutions were rigorously tested using real-world scenarios over the course of a year and consistently excelled in the evaluation criteria of threat protection, product performance, usability and more.

Bitdefender, a global cybersecurity leader, today unveiled GravityZone CSPM+, a powerful Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) solution for monitoring and managing configurations of cloud infrastructures including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure and others. In addition, GravityZone CSPM+ incorporates threat detection and response along with Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) capabilities allowing businesses to easily apply Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies and configuration best practices, especially in pursuit of compliance, across multi-cloud environments.

Bitdefender, a global cybersecurity leader, today launched GravityZone Cloud MSP Security Solutions, a new offering designed specifically for managed service providers (MSPs) and their business customers that delivers leading-edge endpoint protection and managed detection and response (MDR) services to detect and eradicate cyberthreats as they occur across any environment and strengthen overall resiliency against cyberattacks.

Bitdefender, a global cybersecurity leader, today announced Cryptomining Protection, the first cryptomining management feature that allows users to both protect against malicious cryptojacking and manage their own legitimate cyptomining initiatives on their Windows PCs.

Bitdefender, a global cybersecurity leader, today launched Email Protection, a powerful new feature that scans and identifies potentially dangerous content such as phishing attempts and online scams, in webmail accessed from any device. Email Protection allows users to extend one of the world’s best endpoint protection technologies to webmail services and currently supports Gmail and Outlook.

Bitdefender, a global cybersecurity leader, today announced that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Dan Russell, director of North America Channels to the prestigious 2024 CRN® Channel Chiefs list.

Bitdefender, a global security leader, today announced that technology authority PCMag, has ranked the company number one on its highly coveted “Best Brands for 2024” list of technology manufacturers. PCMag rated Bitdefender ahead of the industry’s best-known names based on an index that combines customer satisfaction scores with the magazine’s product review evaluations.

Bitdefender, a global cybersecurity leader, has opened a new security operations center (SOC) in Singapore, to meet customer needs and support the growth of Bitdefender Managed Detection and Response (MDR), Bitdefender Offensive Cybersecurity Services, and additional business security solutions. The new SOC enhances Bitdefender’s ability to serve clients headquartered in Asia Pacific, as well as multinational businesses with operations across the region.

Bitdefender, a global cybersecurity leader, was named a Visionary in the 2023 Gartner “Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms (EPP)”.¹ Bitdefender was among 16 vendors that Gartner evaluated.

Bitdefender, a global cybersecurity leader, today unveiled Bitdefender Scamio, a complimentary scam detection service designed to help users verify fraudulent online schemes delivered by email, embedded links, text, and instant messaging through collaboration with a chatbot powered by artificial intelligence (AI).

Bitdefender, a global cybersecurity leader, today announced it achieved remarkable success in the AV-Comparatives’ Advanced Threat Protection Test, excelling in both the Enterprise and Consumer categories. Bitdefender attained the highest score of all vendors evaluated showcasing superior capabilities in blocking advanced threats.

Bitdefender, a global cybersecurity leader, today announced it has been chosen by the San Antonio Spurs as an official partner of the historic NBA franchise. The Spurs will deploy Bitdefender MDR (managed detection and response) services integrated with Bitdefender GravityZone XDR (extended detection and response), an advanced security and risk analytics platform - to help protect its operations from cyberattacks.

Bitdefender, a global cybersecurity leader, today announced Bitdefender Offensive Services¹, a new offering designed to proactively assess, identify, and remediate security gaps in an organization’s environment (on premises, cloud, hybrid) through penetration testing and red team simulated attacks.

Bitdefender, a global cybersecurity leader, was named a Leader in the latest Forrester Research, Inc. global evaluation of endpoint security providers. The Forrester Wave™: Endpoint Security, Q4 2023 report evaluated 13 vendors across 25 individual criteria including Malware Prevention, Exploit Prevention, Attack Remediation, Innovation, Adoption, Pricing Flexibility & Transparency and more.

Bitdefender, a global cybersecurity leader, today announced it has joined prpl Foundation to contribute technologies, expertise and guidance to help drive more standardized and secure customer premises equipment (CPE) to the marketplace.

Bitdefender, a global cybersecurity leader, today unveiled Bitdefender Threat Intelligence (TI), a powerful solution for businesses with a security operation center (SOC), managed security service providers (MSSPs) and technology partners to integrate cyber threat intelligence and dynamic malware analysis into their operations. The offering gives organizations heightened visibility of the evolving global threat landscape to improve threat detection and validation, triage alerts, enhance threat hunting, and speed incident response.

Bitdefender, a global cybersecurity leader, today announced it achieved 100% detection of all major evaluation steps with the highest possible level of description for each step for the third consecutive year in the MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK Enterprise Evaluations. The evaluations were conducted through independent tests that simulate adversary behavior and techniques assessing the detection and protection capabilities of the 31 participating vendors.

Bitdefender, a global cybersecurity leader, was named a Customers’ Choice in EMEA in the 2023 Gartner® Peer Insights Voice of the Customer for Endpoint Protection Platforms (EPP).¹ In addition, the company was named a Strong Performer for EPP overall evaluations and for North America (by region) and Midsize Enterprise & Public Sector, Governments, Education (by company size).

Bitdefender, a global cybersecurity leader, today announced it has completed its acquisition of Singapore-based Horangi Cyber Security. The acquisition expands the attack surface monitoring capabilities of Bitdefender’s product and services portfolio and allows business customers worldwide to overcome a broader range of cybersecurity challenges, including misconfiguration and vulnerability detection, governance, and compliance across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

Bitdefender, a global cybersecurity leader, today launched an advanced security feature for iOS users, Scam Alert. The new technology protects users from phishing scams delivered through SMS/MMS messages and calendar invites. Layered on top of existing protection in Bitdefender Mobile Security for iOS, Scam Alert proactively identifies attacks and prevents them from reaching the mobile user - providing iPhone and iPad users complete, layered protection.

Bitdefender, a global cybersecurity leader, today announced it has agreed to acquire Singapore-based Horangi Cyber Security to address the growing demand for advanced, streamlined management of cybersecurity, compliance, and governance of multi-cloud environments.

Bitdefender, a global cybersecurity leader, is pleased to announce it was recognized as a vendor ‘Who Shaped the Year’ in the IDC report Worldwide Consumer Digital Life Protection (CDLP) Market Shares, 2022.¹

Bitdefender, a global cybersecurity leader, today unveiled GravityZone Security for Mobile, designed to provide organizations with advanced Mobile Threat Detection (MTD) and security for Android, iOS and Chromebook devices, including Chrome extensions. The new offering helps enterprises, managed service providers (MSPs) and their customers gain deep visibility into their mobile footprint to prevent, protect, detect and respond to cyberattacks targeting mobile devices, applications, and operating systems.

Bitdefender, a global cybersecurity leader, today unveiled App Anomaly Detection, the industry’s first real-time, behavior-based protection layer available now in Bitdefender Mobile Security for Android, that continuously detects anomalous and malicious behavior in Android applications as it emerges.

Bitdefender, a leading global cybersecurity company today released the 2023 Cybersecurity Assessment Report, based on an independent survey and analysis of IT and security managers revealing top security concerns, practices, and key challenges businesses are facing across their environments.

Bitdefender, a global cybersecurity leader, today announced it has been honored by CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, with a prestigious 5-star rating in its 2023 Partner Program Guide.

Bitdefender, a global cybersecurity leader, today announced Bitdefender Mobile Security was named Best Android Security 2022 by AV-TEST, a leading independent testing organization that retains one of the world’s largest collections of malware samples. Achieving a perfect score during multiple, rigorous tests taking place over the course of 2022, this is the sixth time Bitdefender Mobile Security has earned the distinction of “Best Android Security” from AV-TEST when evaluated among competitive offerings.

Bitdefender, a global cybersecurity leader, today unveiled Bitdefender Premium Security Plus, a new security suite that provides industry-leading threat prevention and detection, a fully featured password manager to keep credentials safe, secure virtual private network (VPN) for online privacy, and 24/7 digital identity protection monitoring. The suite introduces the industry’s first Identity Protection Score service for European and Australian consumers that analyzes personal data breach history to determine how much of their sensitive data is available online, what their personal risk level is, and what corrective steps are needed to better protect their identity.

Bitdefender, a global cybersecurity leader, today announced enhancements to Bitdefender Premium Virtual Private Network (VPN) Service designed to bolster security, privacy and speed for consumers. The service now offers App Traffic Optimizer, a unique feature that allows users to prioritize and shift bandwidth to any application of their choice in real-time, maximizing the online experience while ensuring uninterrupted privacy protection.

Bitdefender, a global cybersecurity leader, is pleased to announce that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named two of its leaders to the prestigious 2023 Channel Chiefs list.

Bitdefender, a global cybersecurity leader, is pleased to announce that it was recognized in the December 2022 Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Endpoint Security¹ report across multiple categories. The report tracks the innovations that aid security leaders in protecting their enterprise from attacks and breaches. Among the categories tracked by Gartner, Bitdefender was recognized in extended detection and response (XDR), endpoint detection and response (EDR) and endpoint protection platforms (EPP).

Bitdefender, a global cybersecurity leader, today announced Bitdefender Internet Security has once again been named Product of the Year, for the highest overall scores throughout all 2022 tests, by AV-Comparatives, an industry leading independent testing firm for cybersecurity solutions. This marks the fifth time Bitdefender has won this coveted award, racking up more wins than any other vendor in the past 10 years.

Bitdefender, a global cybersecurity leader, today announced it achieved 100% coverage of steps in the first MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK Evaluation for Managed Services, an evaluation of 16 participating cybersecurity vendors in their ability to analyze and describe adversary behavior. In addition to complete coverage of steps in the MITRE ATT&CK kill chain (the industry gold standard framework for understanding how attacks work), Bitdefender also delivered concise curated reports with actionable insights to minimize alert fatigue and enhance security team’s ability to quickly and effectively respond.

Bitdefender, a global cybersecurity leader, today unveiled the first real-time chat protection capabilities for mobile-based instant messaging applications. Bitdefender Chat Protection immediately alerts users if malicious links are received or sent during live sessions over the world’s most popular chat applications including WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Telegram and Discord. A true industry innovation, the new capabilities help protect users from increased cybercriminal activities targeting mobile devices.

Bitdefender, a global cybersecurity leader, and Sharp Electronics, one of the world’s leading technology manufacturers, have announced a new partnership, enabling the integration of Bitdefender antimalware technology into Sharp’s new range of Future Workplace A3 multifunction printers (MFPs).

Bitdefender, a global cybersecurity leader, today announced it has entered into a multi-year partnership with Ferrari S.p.A., to become Cybersecurity global partner of Scuderia Ferrari, which is competing in the FIA Formula 1 World Championship®.