The laboratory is equipped with 21 state-of-the-art computers and some 600 students are to attend cybersecurity courses taught by Bitdefender specialists.
In the last decade, Bitdefender and UPB have been partners in an internship program and the company’s employees taught courses for students at the Faculty of Automation Control and Computer Science.
Bitdefender also contributed to developing some programs of Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in cybersecurity at the University of Bucharest, the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca and the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi.
At end-2018, Bitdefender moved its head office to Orhideea Towers office compound, in the vicinity of the Polytechnic University of Bucharest, where over half of more than 1,700 Bitdefender employees work. Approximately 50% of Bitdefender employees are involved in research and development (R&D) activities at its five centers in the cities of Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Iasi, Targu Mures and Timisoara.