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GravityZone Business Security pros and cons

Vendor: Bitdefender
4.3 out of 5

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PROS

GravityZone Business Security provides efficient and lightweight protection, consistently thwarting attacks during security audits.
Its ease of use and straightforward initial setup make it user-friendly and efficient in detecting threats such as viruses and ransomware.
The network security, anti-malware, and anti-virus features are highly valued for their excellent threat detection capabilities.
The monitoring dashboards deliver detailed insights into activities, aiding in risk management by highlighting system vulnerabilities.
Customers report a strong return on investment due to its cost-effectiveness, scalability, and stable performance.

CONS

Upgrades are heavy and require backup, often resembling a fresh installation.
Configuration can be tedious, and patch management is a separate subscription.
Performance on ransomware isn't optimal, leading to evaluations of other products.
Initial setup complexity requires substantial knowledge and time investment.
Technical support and reporting functionalities could be improved, lacking RMM and MDM features.
 

GravityZone Business Security Pros review quotes

VN
CEO at URS LLP
May 23, 2025
The best part is the risk management; it gives me real relief, and an overall idea of what all my systems are exposed to, where my weaknesses lie, and how I can address them—whether it's misconfigurations, user behavior creating the risk, or the OS software that isn't getting patched, or critical CVs that aren't getting mitigated.
Wesam Qashou - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer at Ministry of Awqaf & Islamic Affairs
Feb 12, 2025
GravityZone is very light on PCs and offers excellent threat detection capabilities, notably through its anti-malware and anti-virus features.
HC
Chief Technology Officer at CustomerHD
Feb 28, 2025
GravityZone Business Security is an important part of our security stack.
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SK
Head of IT at RD Tech
Feb 11, 2025
The monitoring dashboards are absolutely amazing, providing a lot of fine details about all activities.
BarryGreene - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner at Providing Excellence through Technology
Oct 16, 2024
My client feels protected by it, which is important to me.
Michael-Ndwiga - PeerSpot reviewer
I.T Business Support Officer at City Eye Hospital
Dec 21, 2023
I like that the tool is a bit simple to use. In terms of handling phishing and rate mitigation, it is quite good. The product is stable. I rate it a perfect ten. The solution is scalable. I rate it an eight out of ten, with ten being the highest. The initial setup is straightforward. I have seen a return on investment.
BL
Co-Owner at BizTech Plus
Jul 13, 2022
The most valuable feature of Bitdefender GravityZone Elite is its ease of use.
BL
Co-Owner at BizTech Plus
May 12, 2022
The ease of deployment via our RMM tool has been good.
Marcin Bełzowski - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at MGH. Małopolska Grupa Handlowa Sp. z o.o
Aug 26, 2022
The most valuable feature of Bitdefender GravityZone Elite is its efficiency in finding threats, such as viruses and ransomware.
FN
Chief security officer at a transportation company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Mar 10, 2022
Bitdefender GravityZone Elite is efficient and lightweight. We have to do security audits every year and we saw how secure Bitdefender GravityZone Elite was, even the plan testers had difficulties taking control of a computer when it was protected. The solution was always rejecting the attacks of the test hackers, it has very good protection.
 

GravityZone Business Security Cons review quotes

VN
CEO at URS LLP
May 23, 2025
Another observation was that we have disabled all the external media via GravityZone Business Security policies, but when connecting a device such as a phone, it was getting detected, and users were able to read and write files.
Wesam Qashou - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer at Ministry of Awqaf & Islamic Affairs
Feb 12, 2025
While GravityZone is comprehensive, it can sometimes prevent the execution of local-made programs, resulting in false alarms.
HC
Chief Technology Officer at CustomerHD
Feb 28, 2025
The main issue with Bitdefender is the UI and console. It's not designed with current standards; it's not HTML5 and doesn't work well for navigation, making it a little clunky.
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SK
Head of IT at RD Tech
Feb 11, 2025
It is more than adequate, just needing to keep up with industry changes.
BarryGreene - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner at Providing Excellence through Technology
Oct 16, 2024
From an MSP point of view, it is not as efficient as I would like.
Michael-Ndwiga - PeerSpot reviewer
I.T Business Support Officer at City Eye Hospital
Dec 21, 2023
The reporting functionality is quite minimal, and there are no alerts available. We are missing email encryption capabilities. We’ve also faced a few minor issues with the solution’s scalability.
BL
Co-Owner at BizTech Plus
Jul 13, 2022
The initial setup of Bitdefender GravityZone Elite was a little complex. It's not for the average home user. You need to know what you're doing and understand what you're doing. During the deployment, it took us approximately an hour and a half to understand fully the way we wanted it to be set up, and then from there, it wasn't too bad.
BL
Co-Owner at BizTech Plus
May 12, 2022
When you have to change some of the settings, the initial setup can become complicated.
Marcin Bełzowski - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at MGH. Małopolska Grupa Handlowa Sp. z o.o
Aug 26, 2022
Bitdefender GravityZone Elite could improve the ease of use and add more features. Other solutions have more features such as Kaspersky Antivirus. For example, I could not remote connect with Microsoft Windows with Kaspersky Antivirus and the reports were better. Additionally, I have had difficulty ending tasks with solutions.
FN
Chief security officer at a transportation company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Mar 10, 2022
Bitdefender GravityZone Elite could improve by having a patch management function to become part of the solution. For now, it's a separate module subscription. For example, in my company, all the endpoints are sending the information about network attacks and detected malware, to the GravityZone console, and from the console, you can send all these alerts, to another solution, such as Syslog. This is a very important point for us because, this architecture, is similar to having hundreds of threat sensors in the company. The endpoint is a threat sensor and this is very important. From a security perspective, I'm not expecting anything more. However, I'm expecting patch management to become part of GravityZone, and not a separate subscription. This would be a large benefit to us.