Bitdefender Delivers Security-as-a-Service On AWS Marketplace

Bitdefender, the security solutions provider, has announced that Security for Virtualized Environments (SVE) is now available as Security-as-a-Service on Amazon’s AWS Marketplace. For customers seeking a flexible licensing model, the new service allows organisations to choose security licensing based on administrative and financial requirements - on-demand per hour utility based monthly subscription.

“Security is not a one-size-fits-all proposition, and security solutions in the cloud need to align with advantages the cloud brings - solutions based on the specific requirements of the organisation,” said Gavin Hill, Director of Cloud and Virtualisation, Bitdefender. “SVE as Security-as-a-Service on AWS Marketplace demonstrates that Bitdefender addresses this need and now offers enterprise class security that supports the platform and modality an organisation chooses to operate within the cloud.”

Security for Virtualized Environments, delivered as a service, provides integrated, intuitive management and automated deployment for organisations seeking enterprise level security with horizontal scalability. Based on gravity architecture, SVE’s Security-as-a-Service means customers have centralised management and comprehensive visibility, making day-to-day administration of security solutions easier. SVE also provides simple deployment of the silent agent - either with AWS tags or in the AMI - saving significant time, management and administration costs.

Utilising SVE’s Security-as-a-Service provides better virtual machine instance performance compared to traditional antimalware in the cloud. Considerable performance gains are achieved by offloading much of the antimalware functionality from each virtual machine instance to the SVE Security-as-a-Service. This is accomplished through patent-pending optimisation technologies from Bitdefender that streamline the antimalware processes and reduce resource utilisation on each virtual machine instance.