Product Description
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
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- 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 (read
WMI Scripts Whitepaper)
BitDefender Client Security Components
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
(read WMI Scripts Whitepaper)
- 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
* Available in 2009
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
Improved Business Client Security

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