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Bitdefender Managed Detection and Response Services

byBitdefender
in Managed Detection and Response
4.8

Overview

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What is Bitdefender Managed Detection and Response Services?

Bitdefender Managed Detection and Response (MDR) is a 24/7 managed security service that shields organizations from cyberattacks. Comprised of a team of security experts from a wide array of global intelligence agencies, we augment security teams to help operationalize their security tools to better protect their organization. Powered by the Bitdefender GravityZone XDR platform, our team monitors the entire environment including endpoint, network, cloud, identity, and productivity applications to analyze, detect, and respond to threats. Bitdefender MDR provides actionable threat intelligence and research, 24/7 threat monitoring and response, reduced burden on internal security teams, proactive threat hunting to uncover hidden risks, dark web monitoring for exposed information, and actionable recommendations to strengthen security. We also offer Offensive Security services (Pen Testing and Red Teaming) to help proactively identify vulnerabilities before they can be exploited.

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SENIOR CYBERSECURITY ANALYST
Gov't/PS/ED <5,000 Employees, Government
FAVORABLE

“Bitdefender MDR: Perfect Partner for Small Cybersecurity Teams”

5.0
Sep 19, 2025
Already being in the Bitdefender Platform has made the upgrade and deployment of MDR extremely easy. Simple as adding a license and updating endpoint policies to forward their logs onto the MDR SIEM for them to begin monitoring and protecting machines from incidents. Response times have always been within their 30 minute SLA at all hours of the day as the 3 SOCs follow the sun.
Chief Operating Officer
Gov't/PS/ED <5,000 Employees, Education
CRITICAL

“Navigating BitDefender: Understanding Threat Oversight and False Positives”

3.0
Sep 23, 2024
We had difficulties with the third party vendor initially, however once resolved and interacting directly with BitDefender the experience improved and we were able to implement in a reasonable time frame. There were some delays due to staff members on leave during August and hence wait times on responses for technical questions (e.g. roll out to Macbook end points), some of which meant resolving in-house.

About Company

Company Description

Updated 25th July 2024

Bitdefender focuses on the field of cybersecurity, offering solutions to prevent, detect, and respond to global threats. Serving customers including consumers, businesses, and public sector organizations, Bitdefender acts to eradicate threats, safeguard privacy and information, and strengthen cyber resilience. Major commitments are made to research and development, with Bitdefender Labs identifying hundreds of new threats per minute and assessing billions of threat queries on a daily basis. Bitdefender has introduced transformative innovations in various areas, including anti-malware, IoT security, behavioral analytics, and artificial intelligence. Established in 2001, Bitdefender operates in 170 countries through multiple offices worldwide.

Company Details

Updated 26th February 2025
Company type
Private
Year Founded
2001
Head office location
Bucharest, Romania
Number of employees
1001 - 5000
Website
https://www.bitdefender.com/

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Bitdefender Managed Detection and Response Services Likes & Dislikes

Like

How easily it slots right into and integrates with our existing suite of Bitdefender XDR Sensors and Enterprise licenses. Being a 1 man cybersecurity team of 1600 employees, 2300 endpoints/servers, and multiple XDR sensors, the alert fatigue from needing to triage and determine if something is a threat or not was a lot to handle and could result in delays before I was able to review them. I also don't work 24/7/365 days a year. With MDR I can focus on other tasks and projects to improve security instead of spending loads of time investigating alerts while knowing threats are investigated stopped while I'm sleeping or away on vacation.

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Increased oversight of threats and needs for patches, updates as well as any end user concerns

Like

The product is easy to deploy and once deployed contains proactive suggestions for increasing your security which can even be performed within the console. It provides a better feature set to many other competing products. The response from the operations center is quick.

Dislike

The alert monitoring and investigations are all handled by MDR, it's nearly hands off for me. Unclear to me at times if I should still be submitting false positives to the labs to correct detections or if MDR is doing that already.

Dislike

Will take some time to understand the systems and false-positives. Hoping this will smooth over time.

Dislike

The content control feature often categorizes some websites incorrectly. Support from within the console for false positives and reporting of these could be improved. Although the product is fairly complete, the patch management add-on still lacks some features, like inventory and uninstallation of third software with security vulnerabilities.

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4.8

(106 Ratings)

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  • SENIOR CYBERSECURITY ANALYST
    Gov't/PS/Ed
    Government
    Review Source

    Bitdefender MDR: Perfect Partner for Small Cybersecurity Teams

    5.0
    Sep 19, 2025
    Already being in the Bitdefender Platform has made the upgrade and deployment of MDR extremely easy. Simple as adding a license and updating endpoint policies to forward their logs onto the MDR SIEM for them to begin monitoring and protecting machines from incidents. Response times have always been within their 30 minute SLA at all hours of the day as the 3 SOCs follow the sun.
  • IT ASSOCIATE
    50M-1B USD
    Manufacturing
    Review Source

    Comprehensive Console Offers Detailed Features But Navigation Can Be Overwhelming

    5.0
    Sep 25, 2025
    The console is extremely detailed, covering many areas. It is extremely beneficial from a time standpoint to have everything in one place, especially for smaller IT teams. There can be so much information, however, that it can be overwhelming to find where in the console information is located. We also have another competing product with many false positive notifications that can be time consuming to investigate.
  • IT Associate
    <50M USD
    Healthcare and Biotech
    Review Source

    Strong implementation support and coverage of critical aspects of the environment.

    5.0
    Sep 10, 2025
    The process was easy to deploy since we were already using their EDR service. For the endpoints, literally just a few clicks and a license application and it was started. The onboarding team really made the process of configuring the service easy and customized for how we needed the it to work for our environment.
  • Network System Administrator
    50M-1B USD
    Travel and Hospitality
    Review Source

    Comprehensive Dashboard and Proactive Support Highlighted in Experience with Bitdefender

    5.0
    Sep 17, 2025
    The experience has been excellent. Device enrollment and policy creation are simple and reliable. The Bitdefender team has been very supportive and checks in from time to time to make sure we are using the most secure settings within our company.
  • IT MANAGER
    <50M USD
    Healthcare and Biotech
    Review Source

    Reducing False Positives with Bitdefender's Robust Filtering System

    5.0
    Oct 2, 2025
    Bitdefender's MDR Platform is comprehnsive and collect a lot of information from Agents. The internal engine performs a very effective filter to identify truly positive incidents and avoid false positives. Fine-tuning the tool il possible, obviously these are quite complex procedures, but over time you can refine the inspection in terms of punctual effectiveness. The firewall module of the Agents (wich sends information useful for preventing horizontal attaks), unfortunately has little function to fine-tuning the rules.
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