Bitdefender, a global cybersecurity leader based in Europe, has announced a strategic partnership with OVHcloud, Europe’s leading cloud provider. This collaboration involves hosting Bitdefender’s advanced cybersecurity platform on OVHcloud services in France, establishing a sovereign cybersecurity solution that ensures customer and configuration data, security events, and telemetry are exclusively processed and stored within the European Union (EU).
The integration enables organizations to incorporate advanced cybersecurity capabilities while adhering to rigorous French and EU regulations, maintaining full control over data access and use. The core of this initiative is Bitdefender GravityZone, a comprehensive unified security, risk analytics, and compliance platform. This platform will operate on OVHcloud’s SecNumCloud service, delivering advanced endpoint protection (EPP), endpoint detection and response (EDR), extended detection and response (XDR), and cloud-native security. This provides end-to-end coverage across the entire attack chain and offers deep context for detections, which seamlessly extends to Bitdefender Managed Detection and Response (MDR) services.
OVHcloud SecNumCloud solutions, supported by data centers located in Roubaix, Gravelines, and Strasbourg, France, are engineered to meet the highest standards for storing sensitive and critical information. These solutions are qualified by the French Cybersecurity Agency (ANSSI) under its SecNumCloud framework, which mandates over 360 technical, organizational, and legal requirements. This qualification ensures robust security and provides full immunity from extraterritorial laws, making the services suitable for hosting sensitive data such as state records, patents, intellectual property, and critical datasets for artificial intelligence.
Julien Levrard, CISO at OVHcloud, stated, “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. 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.”
This emphasis on security and transparency addresses mounting compliance challenges. A recent Bitdefender survey revealed that 35% of IT and security professionals in France reported feeling pressured to withhold information on breaches, even when they believed disclosure was warranted. This finding underscores how increasing regulatory and compliance pressures across the EU are influencing cybersecurity incident management within organizations. The partnership is designed to support public and private organizations of all sizes across the EU that must meet stringent data residency or sovereignty requirements, particularly in sectors such as financial services, healthcare, education, critical infrastructure, energy, and manufacturing.
Andrei Florescu, president and general manager of Bitdefender Business Solutions Group, commented, “Businesses across Europe need security solutions that deliver advanced threat prevention, protection, detection, and response without sacrificing data sovereignty. 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. With GravityZone on OVHcloud SecNumCloud infrastructure, customers know their data remains within the EU. They also gain an easier path to compliance for GDPR, NIS2, DORA, and other regulations.” The partnership also enhances Bitdefender’s channel ecosystem, enabling partners and managed service providers (MSPs) to deliver EU-hosted GravityZone on OVHcloud SecNumCloud to customers with data residency requirements and manage these environments on their behalf.
