Forrester Wave ™: Bitdefender, a leader in cloud workload security

Independent research and consulting firm Forrester rated Bitdefender as Forrester Wave ™: the leader in cloud workload security in the fourth quarter of 2019.

Of the 13 suppliers evaluated, Bitdefender was selected as one of only three leaders in the evaluation. The ranking is based on 30 rigorous criteria for evaluating suppliers' current products, strategies and market share.

The Forrester report commented: "Bitdefender performs well in database, user and agent deployment management." "Bitdefender has built a wide range of cloud workload security solutions based on its malware, memory and hypervisor protection / introspection... this solution is suitable for organizations that need to have very powerful hypervisor control in the hybrid cloud."

The best performance category of Bitdefender:

Security features: HyperDetect is Bitdefender's customizable and adjustable machine learning engine for virus detection, patch management, and unique features enabled by Bitdefender Hypervisor Introspection, which, in our view, helped us win the highest scores in the following areas:

Operating system-level workload protection scalability: supports extensive hypervisorhypervisor protection

Simplicity and availability of management: we believe that our extensive configuration features can be used to set up back-end data stores, available bulk deployment mechanisms, configurable malware protection, and binary privilege escalation control, thus achieving the highest score in the following criteria:

Set up, configure and data integration context-sensitive help navigation, integration environment

Strategy: Bitdefender plans to continuously expand the functional scope of the GravityZone Software as a Service version; improve the detection and response of the Linux system; and release the container protection module, including mirror scanning and configuration drift / anomaly detection, with the highest rating in the following areas:

Centralized Agent Framework Program hypervisor Protection Program Services and Partners

The report also points out that Bitdefender's solution provides very powerful hypervisor instrospection capabilities, good API-based policy management, and configurable dashboards. Bitdefender has an integrated partnership with leading hybrid cloud platforms, including AWS,Azure,Pivotal,VMware,Nutanix and Citrix.