Bitdefender, a European-based global cybersecurity leader, has announced a strategic partnership with OVHcloud, Europe's leading cloud provider, to host its GravityZone platform on OVHcloud's SecNumCloud services in France, ensuring sovereign data residency and compliance with EU regulations by keeping customer data, configurations, and telemetry within the European Union.
This collaboration addresses the escalating need for data sovereignty amid stringent EU frameworks like GDPR, NIS2, and DPDP, where organizations must retain control over sensitive information. By hosting GravityZone on OVHcloud's SecNumCloud—qualified by France's ANSSI for over 360 technical, organizational, and legal standards—Bitdefender ensures comprehensive protection without cross-border data flows. GravityZone delivers unified security, risk analytics, and compliance, providing deep detection context that extends to managed services, safeguarding operations from endpoint to cloud. “Businesses across Europe need security solutions that deliver advanced threat prevention, protection, detection, and response without sacrificing data sovereignty,” said Andrei Florescu, president and general manager of Bitdefender Business Solutions Group. “Partnering with OVHcloud delivers this, giving regulated industries the confidence to adopt leading-edge cybersecurity while maintaining full control over how their data is stored, processed, and secured.”
The partnership arrives as regulatory scrutiny intensifies; a recent Bitdefender survey revealed 35% of French IT and security professionals felt pressured to withhold breach disclosures, underscoring the tension between transparency and compliance. OVHcloud's French data centers in Roubaix, Gravelines, and Strasbourg provide robust isolation from extraterritorial laws, ideal for hosting critical assets like patents, IP, and AI datasets. This setup supports public and private entities in finance, healthcare, education, critical infrastructure, energy, and manufacturing, simplifying adherence to GDPR, NIS2, and DORA. “We provide a secure and sovereign infrastructure that meets the highest French cybersecurity standards, and enables Bitdefender to deliver its proven cybersecurity suite, the same one that protects OVHcloud as a customer,” said Julien Levrard, CISO at OVHcloud. “We are proud to collaborate with Bitdefender to bring sovereign, European security to organizations across the region. Together, we help businesses innovate and operate securely with confidence through the combined technologies and expertise of two trusted European leaders.”
It also bolsters Bitdefender's channel partners and MSPs, allowing them to deploy and manage EU-hosted GravityZone for clients with residency mandates, fostering broader adoption of advanced threat defenses.
OVHcloud is a global cloud player and the leading European cloud provider operating over 450,000 servers within 44 data centers across 4 continents to reach 1.6 million customers in over 140 countries. Spearheading a trusted cloud and pioneering a sustainable cloud with the best performance-price ratio, the Group has been leveraging for over 20 years an integrated model that guarantees total control of its value chain: from the design of its servers to the construction and management of its data centers, including the orchestration of its fiber-optic network. This unique approach enables OVHcloud to independently cover all the uses of its customers so they can seize the benefits of an environmentally conscious model with a frugal use of resources and a carbon footprint reaching the best ratios in the industry. OVHcloud now offers customers the latest-generation solutions combining performance, predictable pricing, and complete data sovereignty to support their unfettered growth. For more information: www.ovhcloud.com
Bitdefender is a cybersecurity leader delivering best-in-class threat prevention, detection, and response solutions worldwide. Guardian over millions of consumers, enterprises, 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.
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