BitDefender Client Security - By: Eddie

BitDefender Client Security is a robust and easy to use business security and management solution, which delivers superior proactive protection from viruses, spyware, rootkits, spam, phishing and other malware.

BitDefender Client Security enhances business productivity and reduces management and malware-related costs by enabling the centralized administration, protection and control of workstations inside companies’ networks.

Key Features

Automation of routine management activities and event response* through security policies
Tiered management architecture with master-slave servers
Centrally managed antivirus, firewall, update, antispam, privacy and user control for workstations
Automatic detection and deployment on new workstations
Identification and correction of non-compliant systems
Proactive heuristic protection against zero-day threats
Important data backup at workstation level
Detailed reports
Extensive WMI script support

BitDefender Client Security
BitDefender Client Security is a robust and easy to use business security and management solution based on two major components:

BitDefender Business Client
once installed on the company’s workstations, it provides industry leading proactive protection against viruses, spyware, rootkits, spam, phishing and other malware.
BitDefender Management Server
automatically performs routine and recurrent activities for a more efficient network management
ensures security compliance by applying consistent policies throughout the network
manages and controls BitDefender Business Client and other BitDefender server solutions.

Reduced administration workload and costs

Provides a series of configurable security policies which can be easily set using pre-defined templates.
Maintains mobile users’ compliance with corporate security policies even while offline
Integrates with Active Directory for an easy and flexible management process
Helps address the compliance issues related to network admission by automati¬cally detecting new stations and then deploying Business Client on them
Enables the automation of security and compliance-related activities so that event response is automatically dictated through the security policies set by the administrator*
Ensures consistent antimalware protection across the organization through centralized management of the Business Client features: antivirus, firewall, antispam, update, privacy control, user control
Enhances management capabilities allowing the IT admin to uninstall software (MSI) from client workstations by using WMI scripts
Increases business productivity through user activity administration controls:
Sets restrictions against unsafe or undesirable Web sites and user level applications
Blocks e-mail messages based on key words
Limits Internet access for specific periods of time

Improved Network Visibility

Offers an enhanced reporting tool which enables the administrator to regularly generate statistics on the issues that appeared in the network
Facilitates network auditing (gathering of hardware and system information from workstations) through the use of WMI administration scripts
Fully complies** with FHS (Filesystem Hierarchy Standard), operating in a completely non- intrusive manner
Offers a first page summary (dashboard) containing the most important security-related information and an easy way to fix issues

Centralized Management Support

BitDefender Management Server allows centralized management for most BitDefender business solutions installed on network computers, including BitDefender Security for Mail Servers (only UNIX platforms are supported for centralized management). This type of integration allows you to use the Management Server console to get centralized access to:

Configuration settings for BitDefender Security for Mail Servers
Critical event information such as update-related events, configuration warnings, license expiration
Easy-to-interpret statistics and reports based on the information received from BitDefender Security for Mail Servers

BitDefender Technologies

All BitDefender solutions include B-HAVE, a patent pending technology which analyzes the behavior of potentially malicious codes inside a virtual computer, eliminating false positives and significantly increasing detection rates for new and unknown malware.

To better deal with new spam, the BitDefender Lab has created NeuNet, a powerful antispam filter. Inside the Antispam Lab, NeuNet is pre-trained on a series of spam messages sthat it learns trecognize new spam by perceiving its similarities with the messages it has already examined.

Certified Antivirus Engines
BitDefender’s award-winning scan engines featuring the B-HAVE technology have been recognized by leading certification bodies, including ICSA Labs, Virus Bulletin, West Coast Labs, for their unmatched proactive antimalware protection.

Services

Advanced Update System
The BitDefender Corporate Security components receive the latest updates and patches based on three configurable technologies: on-demand, scheduled and automatic.

Upgrades
Registered users benefit from free upgrades to any new version of the solution during the license period. Special pricing is always provided to our customers when they renew their license, making BitDefender a long term cost effective solution.

Free 24/7 Professional Technical Support
Certified representatives provide BitDefender business customers with free permanent support online, by telephone or e-mail. This is supplemented by an online database with answers to Frequently Asked Questions and fixes for common issues.

System Requirements

BitDefender Management Server
Intel Pentium compatible processor 800MHz, min. 512MB of RAM
Minimum HDD space:
Single or Slave Server: 1.5GB
Master Server: 1.5 GB + 1 GB for each Slave Server
Windows 2000 Professional+ SP4, 2000 Server+SP4, XP+SP2, 2003+SP2
Database: SQL Server 2005 / SQLExpress

BitDefender Business Client
Intel Pentium compatible processor 800MHz, min. 256MB of RAM (512MB recommended), min. 60MB HDD space (see detailed specifications on operating system in the user guide)
Windows 2000 Professional+SP4+Update Rollout 1 v.2, XP+SP2 (32/64bit), Vista (32/64 bit)

BitDefender Agent
Intel Pentium compatible processor, min. 256MB of RAM (512MB recommended), min. 100MB HDD space (see detailed specifications on operating system in the user guide)
TCP/IP
Windows 2000 Professional+SP4+Update Rollout 1 v.2, 2000 Server+SP4, XP+SP2, 2003+SP2, Vista,
Linux 2.4.x, or 2.6.x with glibc 2.3.1 or newer and libstdc++5 from gcc 3.2.2 or newer

BitDefender Management Console
Intel Pentium compatible processor, min. 256MB of RAM (512MB recommended), min. 100MB HDD space (see detailed specifications on operating system in the user guide)
TCP/IP
Windows 2000+SP4, XP+SP2, 2003+SP2, Vista, MMC 3.0(+), Internet Explorer 6.0(+)
Minimum resolution: 800x600 / 16 bit

BitDefender Small Office Security (1 Year - 15 Users)

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