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Bitdefender GravityZone
Version 5.1.19-449 Release Notes
Publication date 2015.04.21
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Table of Contents
1. About GravityZone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
2. New Features and Improvements
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2.1. Security for Virtualized Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. Resolved Issues
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3.1. Security for Virtualized Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.1.1. Security for Virtualized Environments integrated with vShield Endpoint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4. Upgrade Instructions
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1. About GravityZone
Bitdefender has applied over a decade of security expertise and innovation for creating a
highly scalable and integrated security management platform based on its new Gravity
Architecture. The new Enterprise Security solutions form a “Gravity Zone” capable of
protecting from hundreds to millions of endpoints on-demand with a private cloud hosted
within the organization’s premises, or in public cloud hosted either by Bitdefender or a
Service Provider.
The solution provides full visibility into organization’s overall security posture, global security
threats, and control over its Security services that protect virtual or physical desktops, servers
and mobile devices. All Bitdefender’s Enterprise Security solutions are managed within the
Gravity Zone and a single console that provides control, reporting, and alerting services for
various roles within the organization.
GravityZone includes the following components:
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Control Center
Security for Endpoints
Security for Virtualized Environments
Security for Mobile Devices
Control Center
A web-based dashboard and unified management console that provides full visibility into
organization’s overall security posture, global security threats, and control over its security
services that protects virtual or physical desktops, servers and mobile devices. Powered by
a Gravity Architecture, Control Center is capable of addressing the needs of even the largest
organizations.
Control Center integrates with the existing system management and monitoring systems to
make it simple to automatically apply protection to unmanaged desktops, servers or mobile
devices that appear on the Microsoft Active Directory, VMware vCenter or Citrix XenServer.
Security for Endpoints
Bitdefender Security for Endpoints unobtrusively protects any number of computers by
using number-one-ranked antimalware technology combined with firewall, intrusion detection,
web access control and filtering, sensitive data protection and application control. Security
for Endpoints offers protection for computers and laptops running on Windows and Mac
OS X operating systems and Windows servers. Employee productivity is ensured with low
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resource consumption, optimized system scanning and automated security that requires
no end-user interaction.
Security for Virtualized Environments
Security for Virtualized Environments is the first all-encompassing security solution for
virtualized datacenters, protecting virtualized servers and desktops on Windows and Linux
systems. Powered by cutting edge security technologies from Bitdefender, Security for
Virtualized Environments has been specifically architected to meet the unique requirements
of dynamic virtualized datacenters today.
Security for Mobile Devices
Manages and controls iPhone, iPad and Android devices with a unified enterprise-grade
management that keeps the device safe with real-time scanning and enforces organization’s
security policies on any number of devices to lock screen, require authentication, encrypt
removable media, locate lost devices and deny non-compliant or jailbroken devices accessing
corporate services.
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2. New Features and Improvements
2.1. Security for Virtualized Environments
• Added the latest security patches to the Security Server's operating system.
New Features and Improvements
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3. Resolved Issues
3.1. Security for Virtualized Environments
• Some PE files were generating a crash on the Security Server when they were scanned.
The issue is now fixed.
3.1.1. Security for Virtualized Environments integrated with
vShield Endpoint
• The communication protocol change from SSL to non-SSL was generating a high use
of CPU on the Security Server appliance. The issue is now fixed.
Resolved Issues
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4. Upgrade Instructions
You can download and install the product update from Control Center console. After the
upgrade is over, the current version of GravityZone will be 5.1.19-449.
To upgrade your GravityZone appliance and components to the latest version:
1. Log in to Control Center web console using and user account with Manage Solution
rights.
2. Go to Configuration > Update > Product Update page.
3. Under GravityZone Update section, start the automatic upgrade of the GravityZone
deployment by clicking the Update Now button. Wait for the upgrade to complete.
4. Under Component Update section, select the products with a newer available version.
5. Click the Update button at the right side of the table. The selected component will be
downloaded / updated. Refresh the table contents and check the corresponding status.
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