Case Study: Archdiocese achieves 24x7 cyber protection and nearly 99% patch compliance with Bitdefender MDR

Archdiocese finds safe haven from cybercrime with Bitdefender MDR

The Archdiocese, serving roughly half a million Catholics across hundreds of parishes and schools with several thousand employees, faced a growing security burden after consolidating IT services — its support scope jumped from a few hundred to many thousands of endpoints. To reduce operational costs and stabilize a decentralized environment, the Archdiocese evaluated multiple vendors and selected Bitdefender’s Managed Detection and Response (MDR) Service, building on its existing use of Bitdefender GravityZone.

Bitdefender deployed MDR built on GravityZone Ultra across more than 5,000 endpoints (Windows, Linux, macOS, physical and virtual servers) and added GravityZone HD (Sandbox Analyzer, HyperDetect), GravityZone Patch Management and Network Traffic Security Analytics. The Bitdefender MDR team provides 24x7 monitoring and rapid incident response, drastically cutting time spent on security operations, freeing the 19‑person IT team to focus on strategic projects, and raising patch compliance from 75% to nearly 99%.

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