Global cybersecurity technology company Bitdefender has introduced GravityZone Cloud MSP Security Solutions, a new product meant exclusively for managed service providers (MSPs) and their corporate clients. It would offer “state-of-the-art” endpoint protection along with managed detection and response (MDR) services to identify and eliminate cyberthreats in any environment and boost defenses against cyberattacks.
Bitdefender GravityZone Cloud MSP Security Solutions are underpinned by the GravityZone Platform, which is a unified security and risk analytics platform. It would offer cloud security for physical, virtual, and multi-cloud environments, endpoint detection and response (EDR), and extended detection and response (XDR) in addition to advanced endpoint protection.
In addition to providing a direct route to Bitdefender MDR services for round-the-clock threat monitoring, detection and response, and proactive human-led threat hunting, the security platform would provide rich security context to detections.
Bitdefender was established in 2001 and now has offices all over the globe in addition to clients in over 170 countries. Thanks to significant investments in R&D, Bitdefender Labs verifies billions of threat queries every day and finds hundreds of new threats every minute. Bitdefender has pioneered quite some innovative technologies - in the field of artificial intelligence, behavioral analytics, IoT security, and antimalware.
“MSPs are struggling to provide business customers with effective cybersecurity solutions and expertise needed to keep pace with an evolving threat landscape, continued shift to cloud and hybrid environments, and rapidly expanding attack surface,” said Andrei Florescu, President and GM at Bitdefender Business Solutions Group. “GravityZone Cloud MSP Security Solutions addresses these challenges head-on by delivering best-in-class threat monitoring, attack visibility, and response capabilities in a single platform that is both highly flexible and cost efficient.”
In a recent report by analyst firm Gartner, it stated that by 2025, 60% of organizations will be actively using remote threat disruption and containment capabilities delivered directly by MDR providers, up from 30% in 2023.”
Multiple Tiers for MSPs
GravityZone Cloud MSP Security Solutions are available in multiple levels, including Secure, Secure Plus, and Secure Extra. Each tier would offer security protection and tailored offerings to meet the unique demands, budgets, and requirements of MSP clients, including compliance.
GravityZone Cloud MSP Security Solutions would offer the following tier features for managed service providers:
- Secure - Providing deep visibility to defend against targeted, fileless malware and ransomware, threat prevention (including system hardening), Advanced Threat Security (ATS) using tunable machine learning, and incident response and real-time threat protection (EDR) to help ensure cyberthreats are quickly detected and eliminated. Bitdefender is well known for its superior threat prevention, continuously placing first in independent third-party testing such as MITRE ATT&CK and AV-Comparatives.
- Secure Plus – Offering every feature of Secure plus an extra degree of security via MDR services. Preemptive protection and a specialized team of top cybersecurity specialists that watch for threats around-the-clock and provide context-based mitigation to thwart assaults as they happen are benefits that MSP clients enjoy. Bitdefender’s worldwide ecosystem for security operation centers (SOCs) would offer businesses the advantage of continuous, round-the-clock security monitoring across all time zones.
- Secure Extra – Offering all the features of Secure and Secure Plus, together with MDR services, while adding XDR for companies who need more threat awareness, as well as the ability to detect and respond using identity and productivity application sensors, either on-site or in the cloud. Bitdefender XDR is a native solution that would offer comprehensive security context, out-of-the-box analytics, quick incident triage, and threat containment via automated and guided response activities across a company’s whole environment.
“Bitdefender’s MDR offering gives us peace of mind,” stated MSP partner Blaze Networks, highlighting Bitdefender’s endpoint security and MDR capabilities. “The fact that we are no longer burdened with security investigations is amazing. Our Level 3 engineers used to dedicate 20 to 30 percent of their time on security investigations. Now, it is less than 10 percent. As a result, we are able to reallocate additional resources to one of our primary functions - high-level technical assistance. It is uncommon for our clients to have a security staff capable of continuously monitoring and responding to EDR incidents.”
