Creating a Bitdefender connection

Using API Key

To create the connection you need:

  • An API Address
  • An API Key

Obtaining the credentials

Obtaining the API Address

  1. Click on your username in the upper right side of the console and select My Account.

  2. Click on Control Center API > copy the shown URL.

Obtaining the API Key

  1. Click on your username in the upper right side of the console and select My Account.

  2. Click on API keys > Add.

  3. Enter the required permissions and click Generate. We recommend assigning the scopes which will suffice for all of Blink’s out-of-the-box actions:

    • Quarantine
    • Incidents
    • Network
  4. Copy the generated API key.

Creating your connection

  1. In the Blink platform, navigate to the Connections page > Add connection. A New Connection dialog box opens displaying icons of external service providers available.

  2. Select the Bitdefender icon. A dialog box with name of the connection and connection methods appear.

  3. (Optional) Edit the name of the connection. At a later stage you cannot edit the name.

  4. Select API Key as the method to create the connection.

  5. Fill in the parameters:

    • The API Address
    • The API Key
  6. (Optional) Click Test Connection to test it.

  7. Click Create connection. The new connection appears on the Connections page.