Today, HAN depends on GravityZone Elite to protect the infrastructure that includes 1,900 physical Windows laptops, as well as a VMware-based deployment encompassing 1,350 non-persistent virtual desktops and Windows and Linux virtual servers. HAN also plans to extend Bitdefender protection to applications running in a Microsoft Azure cloud that is under development. Nearly 450 applications run in the environment, such as SolidWorks, Autodesk, and Office 365. With Bitdefender at the helm, HAN detects and thwarts 100 percent of threats attempting to enter the environment—compared to ninety percent previously. Vorsterman van Oijen especially appreciates that GravityZone Elite incorporates multiple levels of advanced, next-generation technologies. These layers include Sandbox Analyzer, an endpoint-integrated sandbox to examine suspicious files, detonate payloads, and report malicious intent to administrators; HyperDetect tunable machine learning; and advanced behavioral analysis and anti-exploit techniques. System performance for workstations and virtual desktops also has dramatically improved since GravityZone was deployed. In fact, IT used to receive approximately ten trouble requests from end-users regarding security-caused performance issues on average per month. Today, such requests have been eliminated. Managing security has been streamlined with GravityZone as it allows HAN administrators to handle all security-related tasks for virtual and physical machines from a single console. Plus, GravityZone’s native management integration with VMware vCenter Server automates provisioning of security tools, assignment of appropriate security policies at scale, and security-license recovery from decommissioned virtual desktops. Adding new workstations or servers, as well as distributing updates take minutes today compared to hours with the previous solution. As further evidence of GravityZone’s ease of administration, the average time HAN IT spends managing security has decreased to two hours a week instead of many hours before.
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