AV-Comparatives Awards 2025 for Bitdefender

Bitdefender products enjoyed a very successful year in AV-Comparatives’ tests of consumer and enterprise security products, and were rewarded with numerous awards. These covered a variety of protection scenarios, system performance, and false positives, as well as a number of different platforms.

Bitdefender Total Security offers a simple installation, user-friendly interface, and has versatile scan settings. The customizable six-tile home page is a particularly appreciated feature.

Bitdefender GravityZone Business Security Premium is designed to protect small to medium organizations, covering any number of file servers, desktops, laptops, physical or virtual machines. It is based on a layered next-gen endpoint protection platform with prevention, detection and blocking capabilities, using machine learning techniques, behavioural analysis, and continuous monitoring of running processes.

AV-Comparatives’ tests are very carefully designed and executed to thoroughly and realistically simulate scenarios that face users in real life. Consequently, a certification by AV-Comparatives is a guarantee of an effective and reliable product. An “Approved Product” award means that the software has been rigorously checked to ensure that it will perform its intended task competently. It is an industry-recognised standard of quality.

AV-Comparatives’ tests have multiple aspects, to represent the different requirements of IT security solutions. Further awards highlight the effectiveness of individual programs in different protection scenarios, low false positives, and low impact on system performance. Users can thus see which programs score highly in the categories that matter most to them.

AV-Comparatives is an independent testing lab based in Innsbruck, Austria, that tests IT security products to see if they live up to their promises. AV-Comparatives is ISO 9001:2015 certified, having received a certificate from TÜV Austria for the scope “Independent Tests of Anti-Virus Software”. AV-Comparatives is also the first av-test organisation to be certified by European Expert Group for IT-Security (EICAR) as an EICAR Trusted IT-Security Testing Lab.

AV-Comparatives Awards for Bitdefender

Bitdefender achieved great success in AV-Comparatives’ tests of consumer and enterprise software. In the Enterprise Tests, it received the Approved Business Security Product Award for both the first and second runs of the Enterprise Main Test Series, the Certified EPR Product Award, the Certified Anti-Tampering Award, the Approved NGFW Award, and the Certified Enterprise ATP Product Award for the Enterprise Advanced Threat Protection Test.

For the Consumer Main Test Series, Bitdefender was given a Top-Rated Product Award and Approved Security Product Award. It reached the highest Advanced+ level in five of the tests, Advanced and Standard in the remaining tests. It also took a Gold Award for the Consumer ATP Test, Silver for the Real-World Protection Test, and Bronze in the Performance Test and Malware Protection Test. Additionally, Avast received an Approved Mac Security Product Award, an Approved Mobile Security Product Award, an Approved Anti-Phishing Product Award.

These awards show the excellent level reached by Bitdefender enterprise and consumer products in 2025.