A population of around 8 billion is at risk today while navigating through challenges induced by COVID-19 pandemic. In order to halt the spread of the SARS-COV-2 virus, several nations have declared lockdowns in past months. This left businesses with no other options but operate at a distance while maintaining social distancing and allow their employees to work from home. Many have opted for this in contrast to their will as they can gauge the consequences of WFH like how to maintain focus, how to balance other priorities, such as childcare, and how to be productive without required tools. Besides, another major challenge that is expected to disrupt the remote working ecosystem is security.

Away from the secured environment of offices, many employees and work processes are prone to fall for cybercrime. This upheaval caused by COVID-19 has provided an opportunity for cybercriminals to come alive and attack people through coronavirus themed phishing e-mails. These emails look informative and lure people to invite malicious adventure for themselves.

The cyber defense authorities have acknowledged multiple malicious applications floating around androids disguised as COVID-19 information.

Cyber attackers are also at an advantage where individuals working from home haven't adopted similar or better security measures on their networks as their corporate environment. Enterprises unknowingly can also give such criminals an open passage to invade their much-secured data if they do not look out for adopting the right technologies or corporate security policies to ensure cybersecurity across all corporate-owned or corporate-managed devices.

In such circumstances, leading cybersecurity software like Bitdefender can extend a helping hand to protect businesses and individuals from losing their sensitive and crucial data and resources.

Why Bitdefender?

Bitdefender is a global cybersecurity leader protecting over 500 million systems in more than 150 countries. The software delivers robust security one can rely on.

Since 2001, Bitdefender innovation has consistently delivered award-winning security products and threat intelligence for people, homes, businesses, and their devices, networks, and cloud services. Today, Bitdefender is also the provider of choice, used in over 38% of the world's security solutions.

Recognized by industry, respected by vendors and evangelized by its customers, Bitdefender is the cybersecurity company, businesses, individuals, and communities can rely upon.

From IoT to Data Centers, from endpoints to hybrid infrastructures – Bitdefender plays a transformational role in how security is best consumed, deployed, and managed. The software delivers products and services that radically alter the customer's experience with security, in terms of efficacy, performance, ease of use, and interoperability.

Moreover, amid these challenging times, when cybersecurity is at stake more than ever, the company has come up with its free edition for users. The free antivirus is powerful antivirus protection for Windows in a light way. It is award-winning protection against existing or new e-threats. The free edition is quick to install and light on computer resources.

What Bitdefender's Antivirus Free Edition Has to Offer to Customers?

Bitdefender Antivirus Free Edition is blazing fast, free to use, and loaded only with the bare-bones protection features that every computer needs. It installs in seconds, runs at max speed without slowing down the PC. The antivirus is quite a fit for gaming, image and video editing, and resource-intensive applications. Or in other words, Antivirus Free Edition is powerful protection packed into a light solution.

Moreover, it is available for macOS and Android users as well.

The free edition is powered by award-winning technologies including Real-time Threat Detection and Virus Scanning and Malware Removal. Where the former uses behavioral detection to closely monitor customers' active apps, the latter's powerful scan engines ensure detection and removal of all malware, from viruses, worms, and Trojans, to ransomware, zero-day exploits, rootkits, and spyware.

Antivirus Free Edition is a strong, silent guardian for customers' PC as it uses a minimalistic approach to make sure of the one thing that matters: whether you're a rookie or a techie, your PC will be defended against intruders.

Some of its significant features include:

• On-demand & on-access scanning that runs in the background
• Essential protection without the extra stuff
• No time-consuming scans, no sudden lag, no ads out of the blue

Furthermore, the Bitdefender's Antivirus Free Edition provides free protection against Internet frauds. Its anti-phishing capabilities can sniff and block by default phishing websites that pretend to be trustworthy in order to steal customers' data. And if the user ever lands on scam websites, the advanced filtering system detects suspicious web page behavior and prevents users' sensitive financial data from falling into the wrong hands.