Cybersecurity company S.C. Bitdefender SRL today announced enhancements to its GravityZone XDR platform with the addition of a new Business Applications sensor that protects corporate data hosted and stored in cloud-based productivity and collaboration platforms.

The new sensor will initially provide support for Atlassian Corp. cloud applications, including Confluence, Jira and Bitbucket, with plans to extend the sensor to cover other popular software-as-a-service platforms frequently used in business operations.

The sensor has been designed to address the issue where as organizations increasingly use cloud-based productivity platforms such as those from Atlassian, Microsoft Corp., Google LLC, and others to drive operational efficiency and lower costs, they also increase their exposure to cyber risks.

Bitdefender argues that SaaS environments, which store vast amounts of information, have become prime targets for cybercriminals seeking to steal trade secrets, encrypt data for ransom, inject malicious code or conduct espionage. Such incidents can often lead to privacy violations, disruptions to business operations and severe financial losses.

Once integrated into an Atlassian cloud environment, the Business Applications sensor allows organizations to monitor and analyze security events stemming from Atlassian applications, baseline and detect unusual behavior and immediately restrict access for suspicious users.

“Cyberattacks have become complex and multifaceted, with threat actors now targeting widely used business applications to gain a foothold and breach organizations,” said Andrei Florescu, president and general manager of the Bitdefender Business Solutions Group. “With the addition of our new sensor, we have extended GravityZone XDR capabilities to provide more than 300,000 businesses using Atlassian productivity tools with a robust solution for protecting business data, enhancing security visibility and maximizing security team efficiency.”

The Business Applications sensor is the latest enhancement for GravityZone XDR, Bitdefender’s native extended detection and response platform that is built to deliver rich security context, correlate disparate alerts, provide out-of-the-box analytics and enable rapid incident triage and attack containment through automated and guided responses.

Bitdefender was previously in the news in October when it launched Scam Copilot, an artificial intelligence-base copilot designed to alert users to online scams and fraud. Scam Copilot proactively monitors any device, including personal computers, tablets and smartphones, in an effort to alert their users to scams and other types of fraudulent activities.

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