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Industry
  
Computer software

Website
  
www.gdatasoftware.com

Founded
  
1985, Bochum, Germany

Products
  
Antivirus software

Headquarters
  
Bochum, Germany

Number of employees
  
400

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Key people
  
Kai Figge Andreas Lüning

Profiles

G Data Software AG is a German software company that focuses on computer security solutions. The company was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Bochum. They are known for being the creators of the worlds first antivirus software. G Data use multiple scanning engines, one developed in-house and the other is the BitDefender engine. G Data provides several security products that are targeted at home and business markets. The company has a North American subsidiary currently located in Atlanta, Georgia.

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History

G Data was founded in Bochum, Germany in 1985.

In September 2015, G Data launched a new messaging app called Secure Chat which uses the Signal Protocol. The application is based on a fork of Signal and its source code is published under the GPLv3 license.

Features

Some of the features that G Data's solutions support are:

  • Safe surfing
  • Safe shopping
  • Safe emailing and chatting
  • Protection against spyware
  • Safe online banking
  • Blocks spam
  • Protection against hacking
  • Parental controls
  • Data backup
  • Data recovery
  • Security tuning
  • Data safe
  • Device control
  • safe emailing and chatting
  • BankGuard
  • Versions

  • Home Security
  • AntiVirus
  • InternetSecurity
  • TotalSecurity
  • AntiVirus for Mac
  • Business Security
  • AntiVirus Business
  • AntiVirus Enterprise
  • ClientSecurity Business
  • ClientSecurity Enterprise
  • EndpointProtection Business
  • EndpointProtection Enterprise
  • MailSecurity
  • PatchManagement
  • Awards and tests

  • av-comparatives.org
  • Gold award for highest detection rate of products tested (99.7%)
  • Gold award for highest proactive detection rate of new/unknown malware (~61%, with 20 false positives)
  • IPACSO Innovation Framework for ICT-Security
  • Innovative Cyber Security Company
  • References

    G Data Wikipedia