Bitdefender, a European-based company and a global cybersecurity leader, today announced the addition of managed detection and response (MDR) services to its Sovereign Acceleration Program. By expanding the program to include fully sovereign MDR services, Bitdefender ensures that customer and configuration data, security events, telemetry, and security operations are not accessible, transferred, or processed outside the European Union (EU).
According to a global survey of 1,200 cybersecurity managers and practitioners, 76% of respondents said they would likely switch cybersecurity vendors due to concerns about data sovereignty, jurisdiction, or foreign government access to their data. As regulations such as GDPR, NIS2, and DORA continue to expand compliance obligations, organizations are prioritizing vendors that offer transparent data-processing models and clear answers on where their data lives and who can access it.
Bitdefender’s expanded Sovereign Acceleration Program directly addresses this demand. Its MDR services provide organizations with continuous, expert-led threat detection, monitoring, and remediation delivered entirely within EU boundaries through Bitdefender’s security operations center (SOC) located in Romania. The services combine automated detection and containment with continuous monitoring by expert security analysts to deliver 24x7x365 protection, greatly reducing the burden on internal security teams.
Bitdefender MDR services are delivered through Bitdefender GravityZone, the company’s unified security, risk analytics, and compliance platform. GravityZone provides advanced endpoint protection (EPP), endpoint detection and response (EDR), extended detection and response (XDR), and cloud-native security, giving organizations end-to-end coverage across all environments.
Key Benefits:
- Fully Sovereign Security Operations — Around-the-clock security operations are delivered by European experts from a sovereign, EU-governed SOC using locally hosted tooling. All alerts, incident escalations, malware analysis, investigations, and engineering remain entirely within the EU.
- Built for EU Regulatory Requirements — Designed for organizations of any size operating under strict data residency or regulatory mandates, including those in the public sector, financial services, healthcare, critical infrastructure, energy, and manufacturing. The sovereign operating model is maintained during incident investigation and response, with no transfer of customer data or operational responsibility outside the EU.
- Fast Migration with Commercial Incentives — Qualified organizations can take advantage of a contract buyout program designed to eliminate financial barriers and accelerate the move to fully sovereign cybersecurity. Bitdefender’s dedicated migration team supports organizations at every step, ensuring a smooth transition with minimal impact on day-to-day operations.
“Many MDR services labeled ‘sovereign’ are not designed that way, as they rely on third-party system integrators that aggregate alerts from disparate tools with zero visibility into the underlying security platform or telemetry,” said Andrei Florescu, president and general manager of Bitdefender Business Solutions Group. “Our approach is fundamentally different. A single cohesive team owns the technology stack, engineering, and continuous threat research, delivering native, contextual insights well beyond what alert-dependent providers can offer, all within a fully sovereign EU operating model.”
The addition of MDR services to the Bitdefender Sovereign Acceleration Program builds on the company’s broader commitment to European data sovereignty, following strategic partnerships with OVHcloud in France and secunet in Germany. For more information, visit here.
About Bitdefender
Bitdefender is a cybersecurity leader delivering best-in-class threat prevention, detection, and response solutions worldwide. Guardian over millions of consumer, enterprise, and government environments, Bitdefender is one of the industry’s most trusted experts for eliminating threats, protecting privacy, digital identity and data, and enabling cyber resilience. With deep investments in research and development, Bitdefender Labs discovers hundreds of new threats each minute and validates billions of threat queries daily. The company has pioneered breakthrough innovations in antimalware, IoT security, behavioral analytics, and artificial intelligence and its technology is licensed by more than 180 of the world’s most recognized technology brands. Founded in 2001, Bitdefender has customers in 170+ countries with offices around the world. For more information, visit https://www.bitdefender.com.
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