Get APT protection right: Start Zero Trust at the endpoint

Advanced Persistent Threats (APT) are a rising threat to all enterprises, making APT protection crucial to your organization, no matter the vertical or size.

In building your defense against APTs, it’s key to adopt a zero trust approach that focuses on securing one of these attackers’ main targets:
the endpoint.

Why start Zero Trust at the endpoint?

Focusing on securing your endpoint should be a top priority for protection against APTs. That's where your data and applications reside, and it’s also one of the key entry points exploited by APT groups.

Block APT attackers’ entry point

Highly specialized APT groups often deploy targeted social engineering techniques to gain initial access at the endpoint.

Protect your business interests

Any organization may become a stepping stone for cybercriminals looking to target other organizations by attacking businesses in their supply chain.

Stand out from the competition

Strengthen your cybersecurity infrastructure to comply with government project requirements for baseline security safeguards, which increasingly include APT protection.

Introducing the Zero Trust Model for APT Protection

This strategic zero trust model focuses on the endpoint, so you can elevate your organization’s defense against APT attacks. Beyond initial access control, apply the principle of least privileged access for each user. In addition, users’ behavior needs to be continuously monitored for anomalies. Finally, it is also very important to have actionable and powerful security intelligence, to help your organization to stay a step ahead of APT attacks. In short, you need to: Verify, Filter, Monitor, and Anticipate.

1. Verify

The right people have access to your business endpoints

  • Deny access by default, verify users with multi-factor authentication
  • Keep data in the right hands with full disk encryption
 
2. Filter

The right type of access is given to the right people

  • Restrict access to company resources using the principle of least privileged access
  • Keep unknown threats out of your endpoints with cloud-sandboxing
 
3. Monitor

The right people with the right access, are always doing the right thing

  • Keep a close eye 24/7 on everything that goes on in your corporate network
  • Detect and remediate emerging threats, risky employee behaviour, and unwanted applications
 
4. Anticipate

IT security teams have access to powerful security intelligence. By getting timely threat reports with actionable, curated content, they can make better decisions.

  • Get access to powerful threat intelligence to stay ahead of all threats out there, especially APT groups and their campaigns

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Right balance of security and efficiency

Creating a solid defense against APTs requires a set of integrated solutions. Verify, Filter, Monitor and Anticipate with ESET.

Right balance of security and efficiency

Creating a solid defense against APTs requires a set of integrated solutions. Verify, Filter, Monitor and Anticipate with ESET.

ESET PROTECT Enterprise

Future ready protection for enterprise

Today, organizations need increased visibility into their computers to ensure that emerging threats, careless employee behavior, and unwanted applications are not putting company profits and reputation at risk. Our enterprise solution comes with enhanced endpoint visibility, threat hunting, and incident response tools designed to quickly mitigate any issue in your network.

  • Extended Detection & Response
  • Advanced Threat Defense
  • Endpoint Protection
  • File Server Security
  • Full Disk Encryption
  • Detect advanced persistent threats
  • Stop fileless attacks
  • Block zero-day threats
  • Protect against ransomware
  • Prevent company policy violations

ESET Secure Authentication

Protection against unauthorized access

An easy-to-use and effective mobile-based multi-factor authentication (MFA) solution that protects commonly utilized systems such as VPNs, Remote Desktop Protocol, Office 365, Outlook Web Access, and operating system login from weak passwords and unauthorized access.

  • Prevent data breaches
  • Secure access to your cloud data 
  • No dedicated hardware required
  • Manage centrally from your browser
  • Single-tap authentication (IOS and Android smartphones)
  • Prevent data breaches
  • Secure your cloud data 
  • No dedicated hardware required
  • Manage centrally from your browser
  • Single-tap authentication (IOS and Android smartphones)

ESET Threat Intelligence

Cybersecurity intelligence that goes beyond your local network

Get in-depth, up-to-date global knowledge about specific threats and attack sources, which can be difficult to obtain if you only have access to information within your own networks. ESET Threat Intelligence Data Feeds and Reports help companies quickly spot and react to threats that are in the wild.

  • Get the big picture on global threats within cyberspace
  • Obtain the latest advanced persistent threats news gathered by ESET researchers
  • Receive real-time intelligence across various feeds: Domain, URL, Botnet, Malicious files, IP, APT
  • Improve resilience through actionable measures taken against new threats that might be coming

Supercharge your APT defense, with one of the best in the business

For the third time in a row, ESET has been named a ’Top Player’ in the new Radicati Advanced Persistent Threat Market Quadrant 2022. The Radicati report surveyed Advanced Persistent Threat Protection, a set of integrated solutions for the detection, prevention and possible remediation of zero-day threats and persistent malicious attacks. Radicati defines Top Players as the current market leaders with products that offer both breadth and depth of functionality and possess a solid vision for the future.

ESET has achieved the best position of all EU-based security vendors.

Supercharge your APT defense, with one of the best in the business

For the third time in a row, ESET has been named a ’Top Player’ in the new Radicati Advanced Persistent Threat Market Quadrant 2022. Radicati defines Top Players as the current market leaders with products that offer both breadth and depth of functionality and possess a solid vision for the future.

ESET named 'Top Player' for the third consecutive time in Radicati APT Protection Market Quadrant 2022

What industry analysts are saying

ESET named a ‘Major Player’ by IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Modern Endpoint Security for Enterprises 2021 Vendor Assessment

Our takeaways from the report
  • According to the IDC MarketScape, “ESET has a solid position relative to other vendors to offer a broad and natively integrated cross-product platform solution.”
  • The IDC MarketScape also noted that: “A private company, ESET is profitable and reinvests its profits into the disciplines that directly contribute to advancing its products, namely, software development, core threat research, and threat hunting.”
  • The assessment described ESET’s local language support: “Tailoring its support of its expansive base of customers across western, central, and eastern Europe, ESET engages with its customers in the prevalent languages of their countries. Local language support, either directly or through partners, applies to the other regions where ESET has a material presence, namely, North America, Japan, and Latin America.”

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.

ESET recognized as an Overall Leader in LEADERSHIP COMPASS 2022 report

Our takeaways from the report
  • In addition to being an overall leader, ESET achieved the top rating in every report criterion and was named by KuppingerCole as a Product Leader, Market Leader, Market Champion and Technology Leader.
  • ESET was also named one of ‘The Big Ones’ – the KuppingerCole report features an innovation/market matrix showing how Innovation Leadership and Market Leadership are related.
  • For Endpoint Protection, and Detection & Response capabilities, KuppingerCole rated ESET’s Security, Functionality, Deployment and Interoperability, as ‘Positive’ or ‘Strong Positive’.

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.

ESET retains its 'Top Player' status in Radicati’s 2021 APT Protection Market Quadrant report.

Our takeaways from the report
  • The report surveyed Advanced Persistent Threat Protection, a set of integrated solutions for the detection, prevention and possible remediation of zero-day threats and persistent malicious attacks.
  • Radicati Top Players “shape the market with their technology and strategic vision. Vendors don’t become Top Players overnight”.
  • The report details ESET‘s strong EDR capabilities such as real time data reporting including process and script execution. It also highlights our products’ ease of deployment, ease of use, and our multi-language support.

What do reviews say about ESET

"We found ESET Endpoint Security as an excellent and very versatile product with plenty of features. It is a great software for our business endpoint security and amazing protection from latest threats. We monitor 10,000 endpoints without any hassle."

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"I like the fact that ESET uses little or no resources on the system. Most of our computers have little RAM and older processors. Still users don't seem to be affected by the app running within the background. Its silent however deadly (deadly to malware)."

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"ESET is a great mid or small market anti-virus product. ESET is the main SMB antivirus within our business and is great for those businesses who need to manage their own Endpoint and Cloud security without the need for a specialized IT or security team. ESET remains the most affordable software in its class."

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