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March 12, 2000 | Text: Markus Selinger | Awards
AV-TEST Awards 2025 for Bitdefender
For quite some time, robust cybersecurity has not only been a guarantor of data protection. In times of ransomware, infostealers and other dangerous malware, it is all the more important to provide all-round protection, e.g. for identities, financial, system and network information. AV-TEST experts in the test labs ascertain in thousands of tests which protection products on the market keep their protection promise for Windows, Mac and Android, and based on the findings, the lab issues certificates for tested security. The AV-TEST Awards 2025 mark the 15th time that the institute has recognized the best security products for consumer users and companies that have consistently proven themselves with top scores in all tests. Security manufacturer Bitdefender is honored with a total of four awards at AV-TEST Institute's Award Ceremony 2025. For protection of consumer user PCs and endpoints with Windows, the institute presents the Best Protection Award for Consumer Users and the Best Protection Award for Corporate Users. Bitdefender also receives the Best Android Security Award for its protection of mobile systems, along with the award for Best MacOS Security 2025 for its perfect protection of MacOS systems – both for consumer users.
AV-TEST Awards 2025
for Bitdefender
AV-TEST Award – for tested and reliable IT security
There are many product reviews on the Internet. But truly professional tests always adhere to standards and are therefore fully comprehensible and reproducible at all times – as has been the case with all tests in the labs of the AV-TEST Institute for over 20 years.
All tested products for Windows, Mac and Android platforms for consumer users or corporate users are subject to these test standards, which can also be viewed on the AV-TEST website. The testers document the test findings with great reliability and extreme precision. They only award a certificate for tested security if a product fulfills the set test criteria in the evaluated areas of Protection, Performance and Usability. If the results are outstanding, products also earn further recognition as a TOP PRODUCT.
Along with testing Windows solutions at set intervals, the laboratory also carries out Advanced Threat Protection tests, or ATP tests for short. In these special tests, the security products have to prove themselves repeatedly in real-life scenarios in which, depending on the threat situation, the latest attack techniques from ransomware and infostealers are deployed.
All products continuously proving themselves in the ongoing tests by achieving top scores are found in the latest AV-TEST Awards 2025 evaluation matrix. This year, the test experts at the AV-TEST Institute are presenting 25 awards to 12 different manufacturers. The awards are available in 11 categories, divided into Protection, Performance, Usability and Advanced Protection under Windows. Added to this are Mac Security and Android Security. Every manufacturer can rightfully take pride in their award – some of them even with several awards – as the pathway to one of the coveted trophies is long. Consumer users and corporate users can quickly identify reliable and continuously tested protection products on the basis of the award. In doing so, they acquire an important element of security or may even already be making use of it.
AV-TEST Awards for Bitdefender – special recognition for strong IT security
The results of the monthly tests evaluating security packages under Windows in the category of Protection are always eagerly awaited. After all, the tests evaluate how well protection products fend off thousands of samples of the latest and already known malware. In the test year 2025, Bitdefender and its products for consumer user PCs and endpoints in companies always achieved top rankings. For these outstanding achievements, the AV-TEST Institute presents Bitdefender Total Security with the Best Protection 2025 Award for Consumer Users and Bitdefender Business Security with the Best Protection 2025 Award for Corporate Users.
In addition to Windows, Apple's MacOS system is also subject to many threats from malware. The AV-TEST database currently contains one million special malware samples targeting MacOS. These include highly dangerous samples of ransomware or infostealers, for example. That is why protecting MacOS systems is not an easy task, but it is an extremely important undertaking. In all tests in 2025, Bitdefender showed how superbly it was able to protect a Mac system. For these consistently high test scores, AV-TEST presents the Best MacOS Security 2025 Award to Bitdefender Antivirus for Mac, a security package geared to consumer users.
Android remains the world's most widely used mobile operating system, distributed across around 4 billion mobile devices. Although the system architecture is already very secure, this does not mean that there are no threats lurking here. Over 37 million Android apps infected with malware are already registered in the AV-TEST Institute's database, AV-ATLAS. One product performed best in the tests of Android protection apps in 2025: Bitdefender Mobile Security. This outstanding achievement earns the Best Android Security 2025 Award.
"A high level of professionalism, combined with lots of expertise, describes Bitdefender's product performance quite well. This is also underscored by the four awards that the European manufacturer earned, thanks to its strong test ratings. Bitdefender garnered the highly coveted Windows Best Protection Award for protection performance twice: once for its consumer user product Total Security and once for its corporate user solution, Business Security. But Bitdefender also protects MacOS so well with its Antivirus for Mac product that the manufacturer also won the Best MacOS Security Award for Consumer Users. And as further proof of its strong development work, Bitdefender also protects the important Android system so well against threats that it was the only manufacturer to receive the Best Android Security Award. It is with great appreciation and congratulations that we present the four awards to Bitdefender and its team", confirms Marcel Wabersky, Lead Mobile & Network Testing at AV-TEST.