Cloud and virtualization security delivered as a service

Organizations worldwide have adopted cloud computing as a strategy for cutting operational costs and accelerating time to market through unprecedented scalability and resilience. Whether built in-house, hosted by third-party suppliers or a combination between the two (hybrid), cloud technologies diversify at a rapid pace, as infrastructure providers continually join efforts with software providers to deliver self-provisioned, instant-on services and solutions.

Whether you are a cloud service provider (CSP) or a managed service provider (MSP), you expect to deliver highly secure and reliable services, allowing you to increase your customer base and develop new business opportunities. The advent of cloud innovations imposes a shift of focus from legacy models to next-generation security technologies, purpose-built to provide efficient protection in virtualized infrastructures.

Bitdefender helps service providers align with growing demands for efficiency and responsiveness by attaching high performance security to their value proposition. By partnering with leading service providers like Amazon Web Services, Bitdefender provides customers with instant-on, flexible security available as a service and enables them to generate immediate cost savings due to optimized utilization of resources in the cloud.

Enterprise-grade hosted security designed with managed service providers in mind

Address a new and growing segment of companies looking to externalize non-core business processes such as IT security with a system that has been specifically designed with the managed service model in mind. The SaaS solution is quick to deploy and adopt and enables managed service providers to administer security for all their clients using a single branded interface.

• Competitive advantage – Provide the top-rated cloud-based security technology
• Expand revenue – Increase the revenue per customer by providing managed securityvalue added services
• Built for MSPs – Use a single intuitive console to manage security for all customers
• No overhead – Focus on customers, no need to host any infrastructure
• Fast start – Intuitive system that does not require extensive technical expertise to administer

Features

• Centralized remote deployment
• Local silent client and web-based management console
• Signature based scan engine as well as B-Have and AVC heuristic technologies
• Two-way firewall with intrusion detection
• Protection against phishing
• Configurable security policies for each company, user or user group
• Dashboard with configurable scheduled reports

Comprehensive security for service providers

Bitdefender delivers virtualization-ready solutions that provide comprehensive, integrated protection on virtualized desktops and servers, while enabling higher server consolidation rates, improved performance and operational efficiency. Combining patent-pending technologies specifically designed for virtualized and cloud-based environments with awarded protection, Bitdefender’s solutions are now more accessible than ever, through a global network of leading service providers.

When compared to legacy antivirus solutions, Bitdefender ensures silent, adaptable and comprehensive security, designed to evade dependencies on physical hardware, to be available as a virtualized container or as a service and to run smoothly on the most dynamic and scalable cloud infrastructures.

Security for Virtualized Environments by Bitdefender provides the highest level of system security for multi-tenant environments, allowing service providers to ensure the integrity of their business while reducing the IT management overhead and operational expenditures with easily-manageable and efficient security technology.

Key advantages

Through its streamlined approach, Bitdefender enables you to expand your service portfolio with resource-effective security while generating immediate cost savings by providing:

• Simplified management, allowing administrators to manage any number of resellers and their customers from an intuitive web-based console
• Optimized performance due to patent-pending technologies, which streamline the antimalware operations and ensure better utilization of resources
• Increased user productivity and low impact on end-user experience due to small antimalware footprint and deduplication of computing resources
• Higher scalability and automation: easy to implement and administer across multiple platforms, ensures silent protection adapted to dynamic cloud environments
• Complex reporting and auditing options, to help track the malware activity, security status and configuration changes on the protected virtual machines