About BitDefender

Who is BitDefender?

BitDefender is a leading global provider of security solutions that satisfy the protection requirements of today's computing environment. The company offers one of the industry's fastest and most effective lines of security software, setting new standards for threat prevention, timely detection and mitigation. BitDefender delivers products and services to over 41 million home and corporate users in more than 180 countries. BitDefender has offices in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain and Romania.

• Features antivirus, firewall, antispyware, antispam and parental control for corporate and home users;
• The BitDefender range of products is intended to be implemented on complex IT structures (work stations, file servers, mail servers, and gateway), on Windows, Linux and FreeBSD platforms;
• Worldwide distribution, products available in 18 languages;
• Easy to use, with an installation wizard that guides users through the installation process and only asks a few questions;
• Internationally certified products: Virus Bulletin, ICSA Labs, Checkmark, IST Prize, etc;
• Round the clock customer care – the customer care team is available 24 hours, 7 days a week;
• Lightning fast response time to new computer attacks;
• Best detection rate;
• Hourly Internet updates of virus signatures - automatic or scheduled actions offering protection against the newest viruses.

Why BitDefender?

Proven. Most reactive antivirus producer. BitDefender fast reactivity in case of computer virus epidemic was confirmed beginning with the last outbreaks of CodeRed, Nimda and Sircam, as well as Badtrans.B or other dangerous, fast-spreading malicious codes. BitDefender was the first to provide antidotes against these codes and to make them freely available on the Internet for all affected people. Now, with the continuous expansion of the Klez virus - in various versions immediate antivirus protection has become once more a critical need for any computer system.

Innovative. Awarded for innovation by the European Commission and EuroCase. BitDefender has been proclaimed a winner of the European IST-Prize, awarded by the European Commission and by representatives of 18 academies in Europe. Now in its eighth year, the European IST Prize is a reward for groundbreaking products that represent the best of European innovation in information technology.

Comprehensive. Covers every single point of your network, providing complete security. BitDefender security solutions for the corporate environment satisfy the protection requirements of today's business environment, enabling management of all complex threats that endanger a network, from a small local area to large multi-server, multi-platform WAN's.

Your Ultimate Protection. The final frontier for any possible threat to your computer system. As virus detection based on code analysis has not always offered good results, BitDefender has implemented behavior based protection, providing security against newborn malware.

These are the costs that organizations want to avoid and what the security products are designed to prevent:

• Worm attacks
• Communication loss because of infected e-mails
• E-mail breakdown
• Cleaning and recovering systems
• Lost productivity experienced by end users because systems are not available
• Hacking and unauthorized access that causes damage
  

Some simultaneously developments and benefits can be accomplished by using the BitDefender security suite:

Increase network availability by stopping the spread of malicious code attacks (i.e., Nimda, Trojan horses, DDoS).

• Protect remote users from attacks.
• Reduce administrative costs and deploys rapidly with BitDefender Enterprise management capabilities.
• Stop the spreading of malware through e-mail, using a BitDefender e-mail protection at the company's gateway.Temporarily or permanently block unauthorized, vulnerable, and expensive application connections.
  

Further information about BitDefender can be obtained by visiting: http://www.bitdefender.com.