The ECA is delighted to welcome Bitdefender as its newest member.
Founded in 2001, Bitdefender has grown into one of Europe’s leading cybersecurity companies, protecting enterprises, governments and organisations in more than 170 countries. Its technology is also licensed by more than 180 technology brands worldwide, reflecting the scale and reach of its cybersecurity expertise.
Bitdefender’s arrival strengthens the European Champions Alliance with a perspective that is increasingly central to Europe’s technological future: how to build a more secure, resilient and sovereign digital ecosystem in an era defined by artificial intelligence and rapidly evolving cyber threats.
Cybersecurity at the heart of Europe’s digital resilience
As European organisations accelerate their digital transformation and adopt AI at scale, the cybersecurity landscape is evolving just as rapidly.
AI is creating new opportunities for innovation and productivity, but it is also changing the nature, speed and sophistication of cyber threats. At the same time, organisations are becoming increasingly dependent on complex digital infrastructures, cloud environments and global technology supply chains.
Bitdefender brings extensive experience across this evolving landscape.
Through its Business Solutions Group, the company develops advanced cybersecurity technologies spanning prevention, protection, detection and response, including endpoint security, XDR, MDR and cloud-native security. These capabilities are underpinned by deep threat intelligence and AI.
This combination of technology, intelligence and experience operating at global scale gives Bitdefender a unique perspective on one of the defining challenges for European organisations today: how to harness AI while ensuring that the technologies and infrastructures underpinning Europe’s digital economy remain secure and resilient.
Digital sovereignty goes beyond data
For Europe, cybersecurity is also increasingly connected to a broader strategic question: digital sovereignty.
Sovereignty cannot be reduced to where data is stored. It also encompasses legal jurisdiction, operational control, infrastructure, technology dependencies and the resilience of critical supply chains.
As geopolitical and technological dynamics continue to evolve, these questions are becoming increasingly important for Europe’s security, economic resilience and long-term technological competitiveness.
European technology companies have an important role to play in addressing these challenges.
For Andrei Florescu, President and General Manager of Bitdefender Business Solutions Group, Europe has a significant opportunity to strengthen its technology ecosystem:
“Europe has an opportunity to build a stronger, more resilient and more competitive technology ecosystem. As AI transforms both cyber threats and cyber defense, European cybersecurity companies have an important role to play.”
Bringing European expertise to the Alliance
The European Champions Alliance brings together ambitious European technology companies and leaders who share a common objective: strengthening Europe’s capacity to innovate, compete and lead in strategic technologies.
Bitdefender’s expertise will contribute an important cybersecurity dimension to this mission.
Its experience provides valuable insight into the practical challenges facing European organisations as they navigate AI adoption, increasingly sophisticated cyber threats and growing dependencies across digital technology ecosystems.
Through the Alliance, Bitdefender will contribute its expertise to initiatives focused on strengthening Europe’s technology ecosystem, enhancing cyber resilience and advancing digital sovereignty.
The company’s membership also reflects a broader reality: Europe’s technological competitiveness and its security are increasingly interconnected.
A competitive European technology ecosystem must not only produce world-class innovation. It must also be able to protect the infrastructures, data, organisations and technologies on which that innovation depends.
Building a more resilient European technology ecosystem
The European Champions Alliance is pleased to welcome Bitdefender and looks forward to working with Andrei Florescu and the entire Bitdefender team.
At a time when AI is reshaping both technology and the threat landscape, Europe needs strong companies capable of combining innovation, scale and resilience.
With Bitdefender joining the Alliance, European cybersecurity expertise becomes an even stronger part of our collective effort to shape a more secure, sovereign, resilient and competitive European technology ecosystem.
Welcome to the European Champions Alliance, Bitdefender!
