Bitdefender, a global cybersecurity leader, today announced Bitdefender Offensive Services, a new offering designed to proactively assess, identify, and remediate security gaps in an organization’s environment (on premises, cloud, hybrid) through penetration testing and red team simulated attacks.
In an independent global survey of 400 IT and cybersecurity professionals, more than half (52%) of businesses surveyed suffered a data leak or breach in the last 12 months. When asked about the security threats that pose the greatest concern, respondents indicated they are most concerned about software vulnerabilities and/or zero-days threats (53%). These findings correlate with Bitdefender Labs’ research that shows a marked increase of cybercriminals exploiting known software vulnerabilities using proof of concept (PoC) attacks.
Bitdefender Offensive Services bolster the company’s managed detection and response (MDR) portfolio and provide organizations with a proactive means to fortify environments, reduce risk, and meet regulatory/compliance mandates such as SOC 2, HIPAA, GLBA, FISMA, PCI-DSS, NIS2 and ISO 27001 as the threat landscape evolves. The services are led by its elite team of cybersecurity analysts, researchers, threat hunters, and CREST-accredited ethical hackers enhanced by the Bitdefender Global Protective Network, an extensive network of hundreds of millions of sensors continuously collecting threat data worldwide.
Additionally, Bitdefender’s new services support organizations adopting Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM), a cybersecurity process that employs controlled attack simulations for identifying and mitigating threats to networks, systems, and supply chain environments. This allows stress testing security posture and identifying vulnerabilities before they are exploited by real attackers.
