What industry analysts are saying
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
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."
Endpoint Protection Platform
ESET recognized as a sample vendor in The Forrester Tech Tide™: Zero Trust Threat Detection And Response, Q2 2021 report
Our takeaways from the report
- As Forrester points out in the report, endpoint detection and response capabilities “have become even more critical for identifying ongoing attacks that may have evaded preventive controls and tools.“
- The Zero Trust Threat Detection and Response report analyzes 17 technology categories and includes sample vendors that support Zero Trust threat detection and response capabilities.
- ESET believes the inclusion in the report highlights our powerful endpoint detection and response and threat intelligence services, particularly ESET Enterprise Inspector and ESET Threat Intelligence, backed by strong malware research.
Enterprise Detection And Response
ESET included in The Forrester Tech Tide™: Threat Intelligence, Q2 2021 report as one of the sample vendors.
Our takeaways from the report
- The Forrester Tech Tide: Threat Intelligence report analyzes 15 technology and service categories that enable an effective and intelligence-driven security program.
- With cyber breaches getting more persistent and sophisticated, Forrester identified threat intelligence as a critical component of a business’s security stance.
- ESET believes our inclusion in this report recognizes us as experts in the field, providing detailed cyberthreat intelligence and indicators of compromise feeds applied across the whole portfolio of its products.
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.
Channel
ESET identified as a Leader by Analysys Mason in its SMB Endpoint Security Vendor Scorecard 2021
Our takeaways from the report
- The report analyses the strategies and market positions of 19 security vendors worldwide in the small and medium-sized business market.
- According to Analysys Mason, “ESET is in a particularly strong position in Europe and is a channel-centric business with more than 7000 MSP partners.”
- The report highlights, “ESET’s strong focus on the SMB market and its wide geographical presence are among its key differentiators. SMBs account for more than half of its revenue and the vendor has a notable presence across several continents.”
Enterprise Detection And Response
ESET recognized in Forrester Now Tech: Endpoint Detection And Response, Q4 2021 report as an EDR provider.
The report is available to Forrester subscribers or for purchase.
Our takeaways from the report
- Forrester, a leading global research and advisory firm, cites ESET in its list of 28 endpoint detection and response (EDR) providers.
- ESET’s EDR solution is included by Forrester in the 'Agent analytics' functionality segment. Forrester describes ‘Agent analytics’ thus: “The offering is designed to provide behavioural detection and response on the endpoint itself. This has the benefit of improving endpoint protection capabilities and providing offline protection.”
- Forrester recommends that users “Choose a vendor with a powerful detection engineering team backed by a leading threat research group to reap the benefits of expertise beyond your team’s capabilities.”
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
ESET is a dedicated contributor to MITRE ATT&CK
ESET contributions to the MITRE ATT&CK knowledgebase include several newly recognized ones, ranging from entirely new techniques, software and groups, to updates of already existing ones. You can find the full list of ESET contributions (just type ESET in upper left search button). By being one of the most referenced vendors and active contributors, ESET confirms its commitment to provide the best protection to the community and 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 IT pros are saying
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