It was a Friday “tradition” at Barnsley Council. When their previous security product performed weekly scans of employees’ desktops and laptops, the machines would become so slow, productivity would nearly grind to a halt. The impact was so severe that town officials supporting
Stage 2 of the Tour de Yorkshire road cycling race asked the security team to stop scheduled scans.
Another concern was that ransomware attacks were bypassing the previous security product and encrypting file shares. It would take IT 24 hours or longer to repair affected systems and restore data while 200-300 users were unable to access their files. In response, Barnsley Council’s
IT evaluated Bitdefender, Trend Micro, Cylance, Microsoft, and Sophos solutions. The winner: Bitdefender GravityZone.
Steve Furniss, ICT Technical Specialist – Customer, Information and Digital Services, Infrastructure Team, Barnsley Council, recalls, “Bitdefender GravityZone stood out with a layered array of rich
features from protection against zero-day threats to patch management to application-policy management. We also liked the single pane of glass to easily manage our entire physical, virtual, cloud, and mobile infrastructure.”