Bitdefender has recently earned the three best cybersecurity awards from AV-TEST, that is an independent IT (Information technology) security testing firm. Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), Bitdefender’s GravityZone Ultra, is our unified endpoint security platform to achieve endpoint protection, and advanced analytics once again secured the top place for “Best Protection for Corporate Users” in the ‘security solutions for Windows users’ category.
In addition, the latest news is that Bitdefender Internet Security won the Best Protection for Consumer Users” award for protecting against malware in users’ Windows products. And, Bitdefender Mobile Security won the “Best Android Security for Consumer Users” award for providing the best all-around security of private mobile Android devices.
This marks the second straight year GravityZone Ultra has been named the Best Protection for corporate users because of its leading and superior threat detection, prevention, and response capabilities, Bitdefender’s advanced threat intelligence powers. AV-TEST CEO Maik Morgenstern said that Bitdefender antivirus had proven its reliability and excellence each year as they have tested their solutions.
AV-TEST winners have been chosen based on their ability to block threats in the wild across multiple environments, testing various antivirus and endpoint protection solutions.
The overall testing criteria included identifying and blocking zero-day malware, which might be downloaded from websites, drive-by website attacks, attacks using malware-infected email, and more.
Strong Cyber Flexibility Is More Important Than Ever
As AV-TEST records in its announcement about the “Best in IT Security” award winners, 2021 was a year marked by plenty of cybersecurity protection challenges for companies of all sizes and across all industries. Traditional work models continued to be wholly upended because of the ongoing pandemic. Companies continue to work partially or fully remote, and employees often use their home networks and own personal devices for work. This, connected with a sharp increase in malware modes recognized by AV-TEST in 2021, makes it more essential than ever for companies to make sure solid cyber elasticity across their entire divided environment and all endpoints in the face of an evolving business landscape and increased threats.
AV-TEST Methodology
AV-TEST GmbH provides one of the largest collections of tests, security solutions, and malware samples using zero-day malware, downloads from websites, drive-by website attacks, malware-infected email, and more. AV-TEST subjects protection solutions to a whole year of challenging and ongoing tests while measuring their capability to identify and block infections or threats in the wild across multiple environments to know and understand how perfectly cybersecurity solutions perform in real-life scenarios. Solutions in like categories are tested together and in repeatable and accurate conditions. The winners are determined based on their performance, protection capabilities, and usability over 12 months of testing.
GravityZone Ultra’s Superior Protection
During the course of the testing, GravityZone Ultra’s cross-endpoint event correlation demonstrated superior protection from threat and visibility through combining the rich security context and granularity of EDR (endpoint detection and response) with the infrastructure-wide analytics of XDR (extended detection and response) technologies. GravityZone Ultra received a perfect score for protection, identifying 100% of malware samples tested.
Powerful Threat Detection
GravityZone Ultra, like all of Bitdefender’s Antivirus solutions, is powered by the advanced threat intelligence that is collected from the global install base of hundreds of millions of endpoints, email traps, honeypots, dark web monitoring services, web crawling systems, and monitored botnets, and extensive collaboration with international law enforcement agencies.
Bitdefender: A Global Cybersecurity Leader
For more in the AV-TEST Best protection awards, Bitdefender antivirus has received the recent honor from a few independent testing organizations and leading analysts.
- Bitdefender earned an incredible score for providing advanced threat protection – Independent testing organization AV-Comparatives gave Bitdefender Antivirus protection the only perfect score in its Advanced Threat Protection Test for enterprise products. The harsh testing approved Bitdefender technology as superior and leading for providing protection against attacks that apply techniques basically used by APT (advanced persistent threat) groups.
- Radicati gave Bitdefender the name “Top Player” for providing endpoint security services– Radicati is a leading or superior market research firm, named Bitdefender Antivirus security one of the top three endpoint security programs in the “Top Player” quadrant in its report “Radicati Market Quadrants” for Endpoint Security, 2020.
- Bitdefender defeated all competitors in MITRE ATT&CK® Evaluation. Bitdefender Security was the only protection provider that could achieve 100% detection of APT 29, one of the world’s most dreadful state-sponsored groups across all 19 steps in the attack kill chain. The MITRE ATT&CK Evaluation tested APT (advanced persistent threat) detection rates from initial compromise through end privilege escalation.
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Bringing home many top awards from one of the industry’s most recognized and reputable independent testing groups is an achievement we are very proud of. IT (Information Technology) security consumers and professionals alike can 100 percent use these test results to know, understand, and figure out how leading security solutions perform in the real world and help them make the proper selection. This year’s awards are in addition to the three AV-TEST Awards Bitdefender Antivirus Security won in 2021 for providing Best Protection services against malware, online infections, and threats.