“It’s been truly elevating to see Gartner’s research align with ESET’s understanding of the threat landscape. For security practitioners, the resonance around AI, XDR, and threat intelligence is powerful — but equally vital are the everyday essentials like exposure management, misconfigurations, and asset management. That’s the real bread and butter of cybersecurity.”
Dušan Kaštan, ESET Senior Security Engineer, Core Research and Threat Detection
CISOs are under increasing pressure to secure their organizations’ infrastructure. The progressively more complex threat landscape now represents a tangible risk for both private and public organizations. Major incidents like data breaches have significant financial impacts, cause business disruption and a loss of customer trust, and involve possible regulatory fines.
Alongside cybercrime, geopolitical tensions, and the emerging risk of AI-powered threats, cybersecurity readiness is now at the top of boardroom priorities. CISOs, in turn, are under the spotlight to strengthen their organizations’ defenses.
Just this month, ESET research discovered PromptLock, the first known AI-powered ransomware. ESET also uncovered an unknown vulnerability in WinRAR exploited by RomCom, a Russia-aligned APT group targeting financial, manufacturing, defense, and logistics companies in Europe and Canada. At heightened threat, these industries and their supply chains require a security strategy that includes tailored solutions.
ESET Threat Intelligence – more than just security feeds
As a European vendor with global telemetry, supported by expert teams of defenders, detection engineers, and threat researchers, ESET offers Threat Intelligence (ETI), which provides a unique perspective on the world and the threat landscape.
“ESET Cyber Threat Intelligence easily distinguishes itself from other Cyber Threat platforms with its unique data and technical analysis of malware and infrastructure, which explains threat actor behavior. Moreover, to have access to ESET’s team and (the ability to) reach experts on the matter is an added value of service, which ESET provides. To us, this is a critical component during our analysis.”
Intelligence agency, March 2025
ESET Threat Intelligence provides detailed, actionable information about cybersecurity threats, allowing security teams to take a more proactive approach to detecting, mitigating, and preventing cyberattacks. Using timely, highly curated feeds and supplemented by additional contextual information, ETI delivers further value via comprehensive APT Reports and access to our experts. Highly adaptable, ETI allows for tailored intelligence to meet the specific needs of each client. While simultaneously maintaining a global view of the adversary landscape, ESET also ensures that defenders receive the most relevant insights. ETI not only comes in a user-friendly package, but its security feeds can also be routed through our mature API and provided in the standard JSON/STIX formats via TAXII for integration with popular SIEM/SOAR and intelligence platforms.
Enhancing prevention
Prevention is still essential, and ESET’s solutions and services can help both public and private organizations assess their postures, identify gaps, and plan while taking advantage of automation and AI capabilities with features such as automated and assisted threat hunting, predictive modeling, natural language processing, and behavioral detection.
All this helps to proactively detect weak security configurations, spot emerging threats, and speed up response, while human intervention and curation remain essential for validation.
“What resonated deeply with me was how these technical discussions also connected back to something more human. In a presentation on trust, Rachel Botsman shared a powerful idea: What makes you trustworthy is not only your capability, but also your character, empathy, and integrity.
That message struck me as highly relevant for cybersecurity. As vendors and SOC teams increasingly rely on #AI, #automation, and #outsourcing, trust will not be built on #technology alone. It will depend equally on the character we bring — the empathy to understand our customers’ challenges and the integrity to act in their best interest. Capability + Character = True Trustworthiness in cybersecurity.”
Zuzana Legáthova, ESET Director of Test, Analyst Relations, and Market Research
Searching for insight
By tailoring intelligence to the specific needs of each client, ESET ensures that defenders receive only the most relevant insights needed to supercharge their cyber resilience.
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