What industry analysts are saying
Endpoint Protection Platform
ESET named as the only Challenger in August 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms, achieving the position two years in a row.
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Takeaways from the report
- Detailed analysis of today's endpoint security vendors based on Gartner's standard criteria and methology.
- The report assessed the current endpoint security market, using a two-dimensional matrix that evaluates vendors based on completeness of vision and ability to execute.
- ESET believes its position as Challenger for the second year validates its ability to provide an easy-to-use, comprehensive and consistent endpoint protection product.
Channel
ESET reaffirmed 'Champion' status in Canalys Global Cybersecurity Leadership Matrix 2020.
Takeaways from the report
- The Leadership Matrix considered 17 cybersecurity vendors to assess their channel and market performance over the last 12 months, as well as their leadership and change capabilities.
- ESET was one of only seven vendors to acquire the Champion status.
- ESET achieved the highest aggregated score from all vendors in Candefero benchmark cybersecurity indicators, with the highest-rated product availability & supply, and ease of doing business metrics.
Endpoint Protection Platform
ESET has been recognized as a sample vendor in The Forrester Tech Tide™: Zero Trust Threat Prevention, Q3 2020, namely in the endpoint security suite and mobile security suite categories.
Takeaways from the report
- According to Forrester, “Zero Trust (ZT) threat prevention is critical to firms’ ability to win, serve, and retain their customers.”
- As Forrester also notes in their research, using Zero Trust threat prevention technologies, security pros can create perimeters around networks, applications, workloads, data, and servers, all in an effort to thwart an attack before it can become a breach.
- Most enterprise buyers prefer endpoint security suites over individual endpoint protection point products. They also expect this trend to continue as suite vendors evolve into automated threat prevention and detection platforms.
Enterprise Detection And Response
ESET was included in the Now Tech: Enterprise Detection And Response, Q1 2020 report - Forrester's overview of 29 enterprise Detection and Response solutions.
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Takeaways from the report
- The report provides an analysis of the EDR market based on two factors: market presence and functionality.
- ESET was among the 29 selected vendors identified as representative endpoint detection and response (EDR) providers.
- ESET was mapped within enterprise architecture EDR segment with high antimalware, hunting, automated response and scriptable orchestration capabilities.
Enterprise Detection And Response
ESET recognized as a 'Top Player' in Radicati’s 2020 Market Quadrant APT Protection Report.
Takeaways from the report
- The report surveyed a set of integrated solutions for the detection, prevention and possible remediation of zero-day threats and persistent malicious attacks.
- The report examined 12 leading security vendors, with ESET as one of only 4 vendors to achieve ‘Top Player’ status.
- The report praised ESET’s solutions for their strong EDR capabilities and real time data reporting, management console and on premise solutions, and multi-language support systems.
Endpoint Protection Platform
ESET recognized as a ‘Top Player’ for the third year in a row in Radicati’s 2020 Endpoint Security Market Quadrant.
Takeaways from the report
- The report examines 17 leading endpoint security vendors in the market, assessing their functionality and strategic vision.
- ESET’s Endpoint Security solutions were highlighted as offering high performance and high detection rates, low footprint with low system resource usage and ease of deployment and use.
- According to Radicati, ESET Endpoint Security is well suited to offer protection for companies with heterogeneous environments, e.g. Windows, macOS, Linux, and more.
Endpoint Protection Platform
Enterprise Detection And Response
ESET commended for EPDR universal coverage in KuppingerCole Market Compass 2020, achieving the third-highest number of strong positives.
Takeaways from the report
- The KuppingerCole Market Compass provides an overview of a market segment and the vendors in the Endpoint Protection, Detection & Response (EPDR) market.
- With top scores in 6 out of the 9 main criteria included in the spider graph, ESET achieves the third-highest number of strong positives out of 17 evaluated vendors.
- According to KuppingerCole, our products incorporate the "latest approaches to discovering and preventing malware from executing, including advanced ML detection models, exploit prevention, memory analysis, and anti-stealth technologies that can eliminate hard-to-discover UEFI and MFT rootkits."
Enterprise Detection And Response
ESET Enterprise Inspector gets acknowledged by KuppingerCole Analysts in the 2020 Executive View report for excellent use of advanced ML algorithms for tracking malicious behavior patterns.
Takeaways from the report
- ESET Enterprise Inspector was featured in the Executive View as an EDR solution that is able to “make good use of multiple sophisticated ML algorithms to discover evidence of malicious behavior across all nodes in an enterprise.”
- The report positively evaluates EEI’s scoring system for behavioral rules & detailed auditing functionality for admins.
- It also points out to the support of UEFI and MFT scanning as a competitive differentiator in the market.
Endpoint Protection Platform
ESET named a Major Player by IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Mobile Threat Management Software 2020 Vendor Assessment report
Takeaways from the report
- According to IDC, "ESET is strong in the areas of threat research, especially around Android malware identification and behavior detection."
- The analysts also state that "Organizations looking to consolidate security products and operations around a unified endpoint security model should also consider ESET for its broader portfolio of endpoint and security management tools on top of MTM."
What independent test results declare
Outstanding results of ESET Endpoint Security solution in the recent Real-World Protection Test
In June 2020 ESET received the VB100 certification, its 110th VB100 award in a row
ESET recognised for peak excellence in the category of usability in the AV Test annual test results
ESET achieved the highest final score in the latest VBSpam test
One of the most referenced and active contributors to MITRE ATT&CK®
ESET continues being one of the most referenced and active contributors to the MITRE ATT&CK® knowledgebase of adversary tactics and techniques. ESET contributions are listed among the Enterprise techniques in the Software and Groups categories.
Some of the most recent and extensive ones cover Attor software, Okrum backdoor, Gamaredon Group or InvisiMole. You can find the full list of ESET contributions (just type ESET in the upper left search button).
By being one of the most referenced vendors and active contributors, ESET confirms its commitment to proactively share targeted intelligence on adversaries with the security community and provide the best protection to our customers.
2020 Tech Cares Award from TrustRadius
ESET has been recognized by TrustRadius with a 2020 Tech Cares Award. The award celebrates companies that give back to their communities, clients and frontline workers and have provided support throughout 2020, mainly during the COVID-19 crisis.
What customers think of our solutions
G2 Crowd Leader Award
ESET continuously rated as leader within the category of endpoint protection suites by G2 Crowd, a community of more than 500,000 authenticated users. ESET scores particularly high in ease of use and quality of support.
Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice
In 2019, ESET was named a Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice for Endpoint Protection Platforms. 178 enterprise-grade users provide reviews that led to ESET Endpoint Security having an overall rating of 4.6 out of 5 as of 31 October 2019, considering integration deployment, service and support, evaluation and contracting, and product capabilities.
Rating 5/5: ★★★★★
"ESET Endpoint Security is really an excellent threat protection tool, it has features that allow the work of protection to be more solid and reliable, among its most notable features is its fast file scanning speed, its excellent use of resources By using less memory and CPU, allowing the workstation to work much better and faster, it has a fairly accurate proactive protection against known and unknown threats."
Rating 5/5: ★★★★★
"ESET Endpoint Security is a security software like no other. It is a product which can be deployed on as many end devices as you want but still can be managed and administered easily. It does not slow down the deployed device due to its nature of low resource consumption. Its management center is the best feature and provides real value to it. The product is best in the market considering same type of products that provide solutions for the same requirements."
Rating 5/5: ★★★★★
"ESET Enterprise Inspector incorporates incredible functions that allow a better security control, its effectiveness in the early detection of threats is formidable, in addition to having enormous potential in its customization, since it is possible to adjust configurations or rules of behavior, which subsequently Perform complete analysis, allow to show and identify new alerts or threats that have been activated by the new adjustments made, additionally, it has an excellent function of generating quite explicit and functional threat reports. "
Rating 5/5: ★★★★★
"What I like most about ESET Enterprise Inspector can work peacefully knowing that my computers and information are safe from malicious software and malware that can be extracted and contacted with an application that provides real-time support and perform real-time scanning to help protection, I can review the reports about all security incidents and know the cause of the cause."
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