Bitdefender S.R.L.

Bitdefender S.R.L. (commonly known as Bitdefender) is a Romanian cybersecurity company founded in 2001, originally spun out of the Softwin research group. Headquartered in Bucharest with a global presence, Bitdefender has grown from an antivirus software maker into a broad security vendor serving consumers, small and medium businesses, and large enterprises. The company is known for its antivirus engine and early work in malware detection, threat research, and heuristics.

Today Bitdefender offers a portfolio that includes consumer products (Bitdefender Antivirus, Internet Security, Total Security), enterprise solutions (GravityZone endpoint protection, Extended Detection and Response - XDR, managed detection and response - MDR), cloud security, network and IoT security, and professional services. The company invests heavily in threat research and telemetry, maintaining labs and operations that feed updates to its detection engines and managed services. Bitdefender products appear unde...