BRIGHTCYTE is detection software from BRIGHTCYTE GmbH for threats below the operating system. It looks for suspicious or covert communication that may originate from compromised firmware, BIOS/UEFI code, management engines or manipulated hardware, a layer that, according to the vendor, EDR and antivirus tools do not see. It is aimed at organisations with high security requirements, such as defence, government, critical infrastructure, financial services and aerospace. There are three variants: Mobile Protect, with a compact box for the LAN port plus a software client for mobile computers, and Corporate On-Prem and Enterprise On-Prem, with a client on the protected devices and a central server component for management and monitoring.
BRIGHTCYTE GmbH is based in Überlingen, Germany. The solution is deployed on-premises, so alerts and telemetry stay inside your own network; the website mentions no cloud dependency. No owner outside Europe has been identified. For a European organisation this is a German supplier of a security solution it can operate itself.