BitDefender Business Security delivers great performance and features to protect your business from viruses, spyware, rootkits, spam, phishing and other malware. BitDefender's internet security suite wins our TopTenREVIEWS Gold Award for providing the best anti-spyware and anti-virus protection. As such, it meets the computer security needs of a variety of growing small businesses.
BitDefender Business Security provides centrally managed security interfaces for each desktop client. In addition, it provides security for mail servers, file servers and even Samba network shares, which are customized for your small business's technical infrastructure.
BitDefender Business Security is the perfect solution for a variety of growing small businesses. You can purchase licenses for as few as five computers or as many as 100,000 (or more). Subscriptions are available for one-year terms. BitDefender Business Security is a well-balanced suite, combining all the right features under a usable interface and a scalable solution. The suite is equipped to protect your company from even the worst computer threats. Its flexible structure will accommodate your unique business needs, while still operating efficiently. You won’t have to worry about system slowdown.
Certifications:
BitDefender's products are certified in all five of the independent testing bodies we included in our evaluation. For Virus Bulletin (VB100), it scores 100 percent overall, and it scores over 97 percent in the testing body's five main categories.
BitDefender recently passed the ICSA test in both detection and cleaning, which means the software not only detects viruses, but it prevents them from replicating. The software suite also meets West Coast Lab's Checkmark Certification, and it scores in the upper 80 percent range for both AV-Test.org's and AV-Comparatives.org's certifications.
Detection & Cleaning:
BitDefender Business Security employs at least six different types of scanning techniques, including on-access scanning, real-time scanning, on-demand scanning, scheduled scanning, heuristic scanning and manual scanning. BitDefender’s scanning engines are among the best in the business, delivering high-quality protection in real-time – without significantly lowering performance or slowing down your computers. BitDefender Business Security efficiently utilizes PC resources and your individual infrastructure to provide comprehensive and optimized protection.
The software suite updates once an hour, on average, to address the ever-changing security threats out in the world today. In addition to scanning for identified malware strains, it analyzes your system with heuristic scanning for threats that have not been reported yet within the security community. BitDefender Business Security notifies you of an outbreak and provides detailed information about the malware to which your system has been exposed. It also provides additional information and resources through its peer-to-peer file sharing services.
Once a threat is detected, BitDefender Business Security quarantines and effectively auto-cleans infected files so that the malware can no longer harm your system. BitDefender Business Security also uses rollback functionality if auto-cleaning is not possible. The software suite provides local data backup of your files, and it uses those backups to effectively restore your system to a time before the detected malware entered your network.
Internet Protection:
The ability to track and eliminate spyware is a key element to any security suite. BitDefender is king when it comes to tracking and destroying malicious spyware. It has the ability to track and remove all major threats in your company's email system and internet browsing activities, such as adware, keyloggers, Trojans, phishing and browser hijack attempts. Doing so helps keep your company’s sensitive information safe.
BitDefender for Mail Servers is compatible with most major mail platforms so it can easily scan all mail for malicious software and attempts to steal confidential and valuable data. The solution protects against email-borne threats, and it eliminates spam, which can clog your system and reduce your employees' productivity. Now your employees can spend less time with annoying email clutter and malicious attachments, and they can spend more time working.
The BitDefender's mail server security component is compatible with Windows-based servers, the most common and easy-to-use email servers that are implemented by small- and medium-sized businesses today.
The suite's anti-spyware features (and anti-virus features, for that matter) are not limited to individual workstation endpoints, but they provide complete coverage of your file servers and mail servers.
Management Features:
The BitDefender management server ensures security compliance that allows the user to set consistent policies to all users on your network. This feature makes it easy for IT administrators to control and track different users and threats to their machines, while maintaining policies and security protocol throughout your network.
BitDefender’s Business Security firewall is easy to set up. As with most firewalls, BitDefender continually monitors all incoming and outgoing traffic for possible security threats. The firewall is configurable so that the user can specify certain ports to remain open or closed.
The firewall also features B-HAVE, an advanced technology, which can analyze potentially malicious codes installed inside a virtual computer. With behavioral analysis determining the file’s intent and makeup, B-HAVE can eliminate false positives and significantly increase detection rates for new malware. This feature is particularly useful, as most of the new malware threats are specifically designed to work around security software and traditional detection methods.
Ease of Use:
There are several features and options included with the BitDefender Business Security Suite. The quick tasks section allows easy access to the most basic functions. And you can implement many of these functions with a single mouse click.
The software is easy to use and easy to manage. With the centralized management tool, BitDefender is equipped to perform several of the routine activities automatically. IT administrators should have no trouble navigating the program and using the interface. BitDefender actually supports WMI scripting and offers several other features that make it an easy, yet robust, security administration system.
Installing BitDefender is also easy. The default configuration should be adequate for most business users’ applications, but the process for changing the settings to meet specific needs is also straightforward. We had no problems initializing and starting our protection with BitDefender.
After setup, administrators can receive alerts regarding general security matters and potential threats. The notifications can be customized to include virus warnings, firewall problems, cookie control and registry issues.
To easily see the security history or to report on the software activity, BitDefender includes a robust set of reporting tools, complete with graphs and simple summaries.
BitDefender Business Security is engineered to automatically detect and deploy on new workstations. So when you add a new computer to your network, BitDefender is on the ball, automatically initializing and protecting the computer from the get-go.
Help & Support:
Included with your license is free technical support 24 hours a day, seven days a week. BitDefender provides certified representatives that provide support online, by telephone or email. You can also access the online database for answers to frequently asked questions and fixes for common issues.
Summary:
BitDefender Business Security enhances business productivity and reduces management and malware-related costs by enabling the centralized administration, protection and control of workstations, file servers and email traffic that enters and leaves your network.
Its features are easy to use and the level of its protection is top notch. Overall, BitDefender Business Security is one of the best all-around internet security software for businesses, offering the ultimate in performance and protection (and it comes at a competitive price). To protect your entire business from several fronts, you can’t go wrong with BitDefender Business Security.
: BitDefender Technologies
Pros: BitDefender provides substantive coverage that's designed for growing small businesses.
Cons: BitDefender doesn't cover Linux-based servers or Mac operating systems.
The Verdict: It's certified by all five of the testing bodies we included in our review for offering effective results.
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