Bitdefender, a global cybersecurity leader, was named a Visionary in the 2023 Gartner “Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms (EPP)”.¹ Bitdefender was among 16 vendors that Gartner evaluated.
Gartner evaluated Bitdefender GravityZone Platform, a unified risk and security analytics platform that provides advanced endpoint protection including Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), Extended Detection and Response (XDR) and cloud security for physical, virtual, and multi-cloud environments. The platform delivers deep security context to detections and offers a direct path to Bitdefender Managed Detection and Response (MDR) services.
“We believe our recognition as a Visionary in the 2023 Gartner ‘Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms’ reflects our relentless focus on innovation and efficiency in endpoint threat prevention, protection, detection and response capabilities to solve critical challenges organizations face combating an evolving attack surface,” said Andrei Florescu, president and general manager at Bitdefender Business Solutions Group. “Bitdefender is committed to providing our customers with a layered approach to endpoint security that combines artificial intelligence and automation to defeat threats faster across diverse environments. We feel that this recognition strongly confirms the execution of our strategic vision.”
In 2023 Bitdefender brought several new products and services to market including GravityZone Security for Mobile and Bitdefender Offensive Services. The latter proactively assesses, identifies, and remediates security gaps in an organization’s environment through penetration testing and red team simulated attacks. Another new offering, Bitdefender Threat Intelligence (TI), is a powerful solution that gives organizations heightened visibility of the evolving global threat landscape to improve threat detection and validation, triage alerts, enhance threat hunting, and speed incident response.
In the evaluation, Gartner evaluated Bitdefender’s performance across multiple criteria to determine Completeness of Vision includes market understanding, strategy across marketing, sales, and product offering, as well as business model, innovation, and geographic strategy. Gartner also assessed Bitdefender and its Ability to Execute based on its product and service capabilities, viability sales execution customer experience and market responsiveness among others.
SOURCE: Businesswire