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Strategy & Leadership

Set the foundation for a robust cybersecurity posture within your organization through experienced leadership, defining a policy framework and cultivating a security aware culture.

 

Plan Confidently – Build a security roadmap, strategy, and policies.

Risk & Compliance

Identify, assess and manage cybersecurity risks through holistic assessments of your posture, ensuring compliance with relevant regulations or standards, to your organization, industry, and third parties.

 

Prove Compliance – Meet standards like ISO 27001, SOC 2, NIS 2, NIST CSF, GDPR.

Event Preparedness

Prepare your organization to respond and recover to cyber attacks, minimizing the impact and maintaining operational continuity, through robust, well developed and regularly tests policies, procedures and plans.

 

Prepare for Attacks – Ensure you’re ready to respond and recover.

Holistic Cybersecurity with Human Expertise

Address Cybersecurity on Your Own Terms

Organizations often implement cybersecurity measures reactively, driven by external pressures rather than strategic foresight. This may stem from the need to quickly meet a large client’s requirements to avoid losing a valuable contract, or as a response to a security incident in an effort to restore stakeholder and customer trust. However, reactive approaches are frequently rushed, leading to inefficient implementations and higher costs in the long run.

 

Services like the Cybersecurity Review (CSR) empower organizations to take a proactive approach. By providing a clear understanding of their current cybersecurity state, CSR enables informed, strategic planning of long-term investments that align with business objectives. This allows organizations to strengthen security on their own terms, supporting confident, sustainable growth rather than reacting to external pressures.

Seize the Opportunities of the New Brave World

Digitalization opens up vast opportunities for innovation, growth and social impact. Yet it also brings increased exposure to cybersecurity threats from adversaries who operate comfortably from behind a keyboard. Technology underpins most modern businesses and with trusted cybersecurity advisors by your side, you can embrace the promise of the digital world with confidence.

 

Our full suite of services including the Cybersecurity Advisory Retainer helps organizations of all sizes and sectors navigate technological and regulatory complexity, gain clarity on the evolving threat landscape, and implement effective, tailored cybersecurity measures.

Sustain and Grow Your Business

In today’s threat landscape, it's no longer a question of if a cybersecurity incident will occur – but when. Organizations that respond swiftly, transparently, and with confidence often gain a competitive advantage by demonstrating resilience and accountability.

 

Through our Cybersecurity Review (CSR), we assess an organization’s readiness to face threats like ransomware and other cyber attacks. We also provide guidance on developing robust Incident Response Policies, Plans, and Playbooks, and validate preparedness through hands-on Incident Response Tabletop Exercises (TTX). 

Obtain Confidence in the Future

Cyberattacks are a global threat, anyone with Internet access can become a target.  New products or projects are especially vulnerable, and a single breach can jeopardize their success before they even launch. 

 

Our Cybersecurity Review (CSR) helps organizations assess their readiness to navigate today’s complex digital landscape, while our Cybersecurity Advisory Retainer provides ongoing support to implement essential security measures before products or projects move into production.

Shorten Sales Cycles

Supply chain attacks remain among the most significant cybersecurity threats today. As a result, enterprises and public sector organizations are increasingly conducting rigorous security due diligence on their vendors. Organizations that demonstrate compliance with international standards like ISO27001 and SOC 2 – or local equivalent frameworks – not only build greater trust but also accelerate the sales cycle, enabling faster growth with larger, security-conscious customers.

Bitdefender Cybersecurity Advisory Services

Cybersecurity Advisory Retainer

Flexible access across services, adaptable to evolving priorities.

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Cybersecurity Review (CSR)

Prioritized risk and posture assessment tailored to the context of your organization.

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Compliance Support

Audit preparation for ISO 27001, SOC 2, NIS 2, DORA, HIPAA, etc.

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Incident Response Tabletop Exercises (TTX)

Real-world scenario simulations for ransomware, insider threats, breaches to challenge with the unexpected events.

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Turn complexity into a clear plan of action. Bitdefender Cybersecurity Advisory Services help you build stronger, more resilient security programs - at your pace

01 Understand Your Posture

Assess and gain visibility into your or your third‑parties’ current cybersecurity risk landscape to better understand where gaps exist across people, processes and technology to enable effective decision making when prioritizing investment and resources.

02 Meet Compliance Mandates

Gain independent assurance to ensure adherence to industry‑recognized cybersecurity frameworks, sector‑specific standards, as well as third party requirements.

03 Navigate Business Change

When expanding or going through mergers and acquisitions or entering new markets globally, gaining a thorough understanding of potential risk exposure is critical for informed decision making.

04 Build a Security-Aware Culture

People play a crucial role in an organization’s overall cybersecurity resilience. By fostering a strong cybersecurity culture and increasing awareness of existing gaps or weaknesses, you can instil a security-first mindset—one that enables more effective management of cybersecurity risk.

Additional Available Services

Information Security Policy Framework Development

Establish clear, audit-ready security policies tailored to your business, regulatory needs, and technical environment

Cybersecurity Strategy

Define a practical, risk-based roadmap that aligns cybersecurity priorities with business objectives and resource realities

Training and Awareness

Equip teams with the knowledge to recognize threats, follow best practices, and meet compliance expectations without disrupting operations

Reporting and Dashboarding

Build executive-ready dashboards and reports that translate technical posture into business-level actionable insights

Risk Assessments

Identify and prioritize risks across your environment with expert-led evaluations to drive smart investment decisions

Supply Chain/Third Party Risk Management

Assess and manage vendor and partner security risks to protect your organization from external vulnerabilities and regulatory exposure

Project Management for Security Transformation

Keep security initiatives on track with structured project leadership from planning through execution and validation

Why choose Bitdefender

Proactively enhance your overall cybersecurity posture by engaging with our team of experienced consultants to support the management of cybersecurity risks across your organization.

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    Our Human Expertise and Credentials

    We have a number of highly skilled consultants with a diverse set of experience across several sectors and domains who hold a number of certifications such as, CISSP, CISM, CCSP, etc.

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    Our Methodology

    Our services are continuously developed utilizing our vast experience to ensure best in class value, and tailored to ensure they resolve our customer challenges based on the current threat landscape.

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    Our Flexible Retainer Services

    We understand customer requirements can change over time and have built a flexible service to ensure truly tailored support where our support can change over time.

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    Our End-to-End Offering

    Bitdefender offers end-to-end solutions across the cybersecurity landscape and therefore has a deep understanding of the threats faced by our customers within the industry and the necessary solutions.

Security That’s Consistently Recognized Across Independent Evaluations

Most #1 Placements in AV-Comparatives Enterprise Tests

Based on results in Real-world Protection Test, Malware Protection Test, Advanced Threat Protection Test, Endpoint Protection and Response Test
(Jan 2021 – Jan 2025).

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Best Protection. Best Performance for Business Users

Bitdefender GravityZone Endpoint Security received the AV-TEST Award 2023 for Best Protection and Best Performance in the business users category.

Bitdefender Awards for Best Protection 2023
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High Threat Visibility, Minimal Noise

Bitdefender achieved 100% analytical coverage for both Linux and macOS, with zero False Positives (FPs) in both cases.

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A Customers’ Choice in Gartner® Peer Insights™

Voice of the Customer for EPPs

 

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The Only Visionary in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for EPPs

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Named a Strong Performer

Forrester Wave Strong Performer 2024
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FAQ

What are cybersecurity advisory services?

Consulting services to develop and implement controls improving cybersecurity resilience, covering Strategy & Leadership, Risk & Compliance, and Event Preparedness.

How much do your cybersecurity consulting services cost?

The cost depends on the efforts, person-days. The services are tailored for each organization; contact us for guidance and a tailored solution to resolve the needs and challenges your organization faces. 

How does the Cybersecurity Advisory Service work?

Procure person-days over a period of time to flexibly access services, which could start with a CSR to build a 1 to 3 year roadmap, and lead onto selecting services to meet your organizations objectives. 

Let’s Build a Stronger Security Program - Together

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