Barnsley Council, a U.K. municipal government authority, replaced a prior security product that severely slowed weekly scans and failed to stop ransomware that encrypted file shares and disrupted 200–300 users for 24 hours or more. After evaluating multiple vendors, it chose Bitdefender GravityZone for layered protection, unified “single pane of glass” management, and integrated patch management. The council deployed GravityZone across 3,500+ physical and virtual workstations and servers, with Bitdefender Professional Services completing rollout in three days and achieving 85% server coverage on day one. Since deployment, ransomware and infections dropped to zero, endpoint performance improved, and daily security administration fell from about two hours to ten minutes, while patching and e

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