February 2013
Bitdefender Enterprise unveils GravityZone
Full scale security management for physical, virtual and mobile hits the market
Monday, February 25, 2013 - Bucharest, Romania & RSA Conference Booth 756, Moscone Center, San Francisco, California –Bitdefender, a provider of innovative security solutions, today announced the general availability of GravityZone, a centralized security management system for physical, virtual and mobile endpoints.
Using cloud computing architecture, GravityZone embodies a significant advance in security management for all endpoints. GravityZone is the first of its kind in capability and performance, providing security managers, IT departments, policy makers and system integrators with a highly scalable centralized security management system. In addition, GravityZone is fully integrated with VMware, Citrix and Microsoft, and it offers unprecedented time and cost savings due to its ability to offload scanning, and deduplicating and centralizing functionality for physical and virtualized environments.
“GravityZone represents a major shift in thinking about security management for endpoints and delivers a turnkey solution like no other on the market. Many companies turn to point solutions that require too much care and maintenance. Competitive solutions characteristically require long and cumbersome timeframes for deployment and are not easily scalable,” said Shaun Donaldson, Director of Global Alliances, Bitdefender.
“GravityZone delivers on the vision that enterprises need to centralize and manage quickly without draining resources on deployment and on-going maintenance. GravityZone was architected based on our highly popular Gravity Architecture, developed by our teams in 2010. We determined the innovation behind Gravity Architecture would help enterprises manage and control all endpoints in a single system, reduce the need for point solutions, resources and time for deployment, and allow updates, changes, and policies to propagate easily across the enterprise,” added Donaldson.
How architecture makes the difference
The unique architecture of GravityZone allows the solution to scale with ease and secure any number of systems. The turn-key deployment is accomplished by simply importing a virtual appliance to run on any virtualization platform. Integration with Microsoft Active Directory, VMware vCenter, and Citrix XenServer reduces the effort of deploying protection for physical and for virtual endpoints. Organizations have the flexibility to deploy any or all of the three security services within GravityZone: Security for Virtualized Environments, Security for Endpoints, and Security for Mobile Devices. After the initial deployment, adding new services requires only a quick activation in the console.
Detection technologies consistently ranked #1 in independent tests
Using signature-based engines but also the proprietary B-HAVE and AVC technologies, Bitdefender consistently ranks first in trials from AV-Test, AV-Comparatives and Virus Bulletin. B-HAVE employs heuristics in a virtual container (sandbox) to detect threats that get past signature detection while AVC overcomes even sophisticated detection avoidance techniques by monitoring processes for malicious activity as long as they are active.
GravityZone licensing is modular and flexible, and based on CPU or VMs (virtualization) or protected endpoints (physical and mobile).
Coming in May, 2013 – GravityZone-in-a-Box
GravityZone appeals to customers of all sizes; GravityZone-in-a-Box is an all-in-one virtual appliance that caters to organizations that need instant protection that can span across physical, virtualized and mobile endpoints from one console. GravityZone is designed to provide architectural flexibility for organizations with complex requirements, scaling very rapidly from hundreds to hundreds of thousands of endpoints, all managed from one console.
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About Bitdefender®
Bitdefender is the creator of one of the world's fastest and most effective lines of internationally certified internet security software. The company is an industry pioneer, introducing and developing award-winning protection since 2001. Today, Bitdefender technology secures the digital experience of around 400 million home and corporate users across the globe.
Recently, Bitdefender won a series of important awards and accolades in the global security industry, including "Product of the Year" by AV-Comparatives, "Best Repair 2012" by AV-Test, "Editor's Choice" and "The Best Antivirus for 2013" by PC Mag, that confirmed the antivirus software’s leadership status among security products.
More information about Bitdefender's products is available from the company's security press room. Additionally, Bitdefender publishes the HOTforSecurity blog, where readers can find stories from the underworld of internet fraud, scams, malicious software - and gossip.
