The European Commission’s Director-General for Research and Innovation Robert-Jan Smits paid a visit this week to the ESET Research Center at the Slovak University of Technology (SUT) and Comenius University (CU) in Bratislava, the two largest universities in Slovakia. 
ESET, ranked the top IT security company* in the European Union by both IDC* and Gartner*, opened its laboratory and launched an academic module in IT Security at the two universities earlier this year. Presenting the facility were ESET co-founder Miroslav Trnka, ESET Chief Research Officer Juraj Malcho and ESET researcher Peter Kosinar. Attending the event were SUT Rector Robert Redhammer, CU Rector Karol Micieta and Slovak Academy of Sciences Chair Pavol Sajgalik as well.
ESET is committed to research and education at the academic level and, as part of this, opened its first ESET Research Center at these two main Slovak universities in February. The aim of this facility is to help students and researchers at the Faculty of Information Technology (SUT) and Faculty of Mathematics and Physics (UC) by providing consultations on their research and academic dissertations, as well as in conducting practical experiments in IT security. ESET is also organizing a module in Reverse Engineering / IT Security as part of their academic program. 