22 Facts About ESET

ESET, s r o, is a software company specializing in cybersecurity.

At present, ESET is regularly recognized as Slovakia's most successful company on an annual basis and as Europe's biggest privately held cybersecurity company.

In December 2018, ESET partnered with No More Ransom, a global initiative that provides victims of ransomware decryption keys, thus removing the pressure to pay attackers.

ESET has developed a number of technologies to address the threat of ransomware and has produced a number of insightful papers documenting its evolution.

ESET became a founding member of Google's App Defense Alliance.

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In 2015, ESET introduced ESET Parental Control, which allows parents to monitor childrens' use of Android devices.

Company offers a full range of solutions to protect corporate data, ranging from workstation and server protection with ESET PROTECT Entry to endpoint detection and response with ESET Enterprise Inspector.

ESET offers security products that help companies comply with GDPR requirements.

In 1995, ESET introduced heuristic analysis into its detection engine.

ESET has been using machine learning in its products, starting with neural networks, since 1997.

In 2005, ESET incorporated a machine learning-based technology called DNA Detections, which extracts precisely selected features – called genes – from samples.

In 2019, ESET released an Advanced Machine Learning detection layer that can analyze samples locally on endpoints even when off-line.

ESET has developed several modules for HIPS, including Advanced Memory Scanner, Exploit Blocker, Ransomware Shield, and Deep Behavioral Inspection.

In 2012, ESET introduced Exploit Blocker, which monitors commonly abused applications for suspicious activity that might indicate an exploit.

In 2019, ESET released Deep Behavioral Inspection, which enables HIPS to thoroughly inspect API calls made by suspicious or unknown processes.

ESET uses additional security layers including Botnet Protection, Network Attack Protection, Script-Based Attacks Protection, and Brute-Force Attack Protection.

In 2017, ESET became the first security company in the world to implement a UEFI Scanner.

In March 2021, when Microsoft released out-of-band patches to fix the ProxyLogon vulnerability affecting on-premises versions of Microsoft Exchange Server, ESET discovered more than 10 APT groups leveraging the vulnerability to compromise them.

In 2021, ESET discovered another UEFI malware called ESPecter, which is the second real-world bootkit after FinSpy known to persist on the EFI System Partition in the form of a patched Windows Boot Manager.

In 2021, ESET released the white paper Anatomy of native IIS malware, which analyzed over 80 unique samples of malicious native extensions for Internet Information Services web server software used in the wild and categorized these into 14 malware families — 10 of which were previously undocumented.

In 2018, ESET partnered with the European Cybercrime Centre — a specialist Europol team that investigates cybercrime — as a member of its Advisory Group on Internet Security.

ESET partnered with law enforcement agencies worldwide and Microsoft to target the Dorkbot botnet in 2015 and the Gamarue botnet in 2017.