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  • Enhance your defenses – number 1 ranked protection with over 30 prevention technologies
  • Effortless upgrade – seamless deployment with comprehensive single agent
  • Efficient management – one console controls system hardening, protection, detection, and response

 

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ESURANCE
"By moving to cloud, we needed a product that was easy to manage and deploy via a single console. Unlike niche-oriented products, Bitdefender provides a holistic, layered solution with endpoint detection response (EDR), anti-virus, anti-malware, behavior learning, and patch management all wrapped together."

LANCE HARRIS - Chief Information Security Officer

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HAN UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES
"We were impressed with GravityZone Elite’s machine learning and sandbox analysis capabilities to help us detect and keep out advanced threats, such as file-less and zero-day attacks. In our testing of various security solutions, GravityZone delivered the best malware detection rate of 100 percent."

Johan Vorsterman - Technical Project Lead

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GREAT EXPRESSIONS DENTAL CENTERS
"I’m the kind of person who likes to push and get things done quickly. My technical team installed Bitdefender and removed Symantec across our entire environment [of 275 dental locations in 10 states] in three weeks when I had allocated two months. How often does that happen?"

Kevin Schokora - Director of IT Operations

Bitdefender GravityZoneTM

A Proven Leader in Endpoint Security

“We’ve reduced time spent on responding to cyberattacks by nearly 94%.
That means we have time to work on projects that more directly help the business.”

- Matt Ulrich, Network Administrator, Speedway Motorsports

 

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Why Choose Bitdefender GravityZone

"Incredibly comprehensive and effective endpoint security in one package“
- A Gartner PeerInsightsTM review, 2019

WORLD’S STRONGEST PREVENTION
Automatically stop 99% of attacks with #1 ranked prevention that combines over 30 technologies, including tunable machine learning​, sandbox analyzer, anti-exploit and behavioral analysis.

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LOW-OVERHEAD ENDPOINT
DETECTION AND RESPONSE (EDR)
Gain comprehensive, real-time visibility into suspicious activities. Effectively investigate and respond to incidents – all from the same management console.

RISK ANALYSIS AND HARDENING
Strengthen security posture with integrated device- and application control, patch management, encryption and other technologies. Leverage integrated Endpoint Risk Analytics to continuously assess, prioritize, and address risks.

One Bitdefender GravityZone for Many Symantec Products
Bitdefender GravityZone
Key Differentiators
Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP)
 

Integrated platform covering an extended technology stack and all endpoint types (physical, virtual, cloud, mobile, email)

A comprehensive single-agent, single-console endpoint security solution

Requires multiple products, agents, and consoles

 
Integrated Technologies managed from the same console:
 

Fully integrated

Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)

Requires a standalone product: Symantec EDR

Fully integrated

Endpoint Risk Analytics with Hardening Recommendations

Not offered

A fully integrated add-on

Email Security

Requires a standalone product: Symantec Email Security.cloud

A fully integrated add-on

Patch Management

Not offered

Fully integrated

Threat Intelligence

Requires two standalone products: Symantec EDR and DeepSight Intelligence

Ability to contain systems and perform investigation and remediation via secure remote connection

Incident response capabilities

Limited to blocklists and rules. Remote response requires a standalone product: Symantec EDR

Comprehensive visualizations present attack details in full context to quickly understand the threat

Attack visibility

Antivirus alerts report blocked files with limited threat context. Advanced visibility requires a standalone product: Symantec EDR

GravityZone’s scan offloading and patented caching and scanning algorithms enable up to 55% higher virtualization density and 10% faster app. performance vs. Symantec SEP

Performance-tuned, efficient architecture for virtual and cloud workloads

Heavy endpoint agents consume extensive CPU, memory, and other resources, reducing virtualization density and increasing latency

Integrates with VMware® vCenter Server, NSX-V and -T, VMware Cloud on AWS, Nutanix® Prism, Citrix® XenServer, AWS® EC2, Microsoft® Azure and Pivotal® Cloud Foundry

Security-workflow automation via integration with infrastructure-management tools

Not offered. Integration with VMware requires a standalone product: Symantec Data Center Security (DCS)

 
One Bitdefender GravityZone for Many Symantec Products
Key Differentiators
A comprehensive single-agent, single-console endpoint security solution
Bitdefender GravityZone

Integrated platform covering an extended technology stack and all endpoint types (physical, virtual, cloud, mobile, email)

Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP)

Requires multiple products, agents, and consoles

Integrated Technologies managed from the same console:

Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)

Bitdefender GravityZone

Fully integrated

Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP)

Requires a standalone product: Symantec EDR

Endpoint Risk Analytics with Hardening Recommendations

Bitdefender GravityZone

Fully integrated

Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP)

Not offered

Email Security

Bitdefender GravityZone

A fully integrated add-on

Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP)

Requires a standalone product: Symantec Email Security.cloud

Patch Management

Bitdefender GravityZone

A fully integrated add-on

Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP)

Not offered

Threat Intelligence

Bitdefender GravityZone

Fully integrated

Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP)

Requires two standalone products: Symantec EDR and DeepSight Intelligence

Incident response capabilities

Bitdefender GravityZone

Ability to contain systems and perform investigation and remediation via secure remote connection

Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP)

Limited to blocklists and rules. Remote response requires a standalone product: Symantec EDR

Attack visibility

Bitdefender GravityZone

Comprehensive visualizations present attack details in full context to quickly understand the threat

Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP)

Antivirus alerts report blocked files with limited threat context. Advanced visibility requires a standalone product: Symantec EDR

Performance-tuned, efficient architecture for virtual and cloud workloads

Bitdefender GravityZone

GravityZone’s scan offloading and patented caching and scanning algorithms enable up to 55% higher virtualization density and 10% faster app. performance vs. Symantec SEP

Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP)

Heavy endpoint agents consume extensive CPU, memory, and other resources, reducing virtualization density and increasing latency

Security-workflow automation via integration with infrastructure-management tools

Bitdefender GravityZone

Integrates with VMware® vCenter Server, NSX-V and -T, VMware Cloud on AWS, Nutanix® Prism, Citrix® XenServer, AWS® EC2, Microsoft® Azure and Pivotal® Cloud Foundry

Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP)

Not offered. Integration with VMware requires a standalone product: Symantec Data Center Security (DCS)