

ESET is a good shortlist option for organizations seeking an effective, lightweight anti-malware solution." Īccording to Frost & Sullivan, "ESET offers high-performance, proactive endpoint security solutions, and the company goes above and beyond the competition to add value to its products by educating both Mac and PC users on how to defend themselves against the latest cyber threats" and it concluded that "ESET will continue to maintain a strong presence in the endpoint security market and provide high value to its customers." It awarded ESET the 2012 North American Endpoint Security Products Customer Value Enhancement Award and the 2011 Global Customer Value Enhancement Award. Its Completeness of Vision score benefits from good malware effectiveness in a lightweight client, but it still suffers from weak enterprise management capabilities and lack of investment in market-leading features, such as application control and virtualization support. According to the Gartner report, "ESET has built a substantial installed base in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, particularly in Eastern Europe, and it has a rapidly growing small and medium-sized business presence in North America. ESET falls within the Niche Player category of the Gartner Magic Quadrant.


1999 - Forming of ESET, LLC in San Diego, United States.1998 - ESET NOD32 Antivirus received the first Virus Bulletin Test award.1987 - The first version of antivirus NOD is created by Peter Paško and Miroslav Trnka.

In 1998 NOD received the VB100 award of Virus Bulletin, which helped the company establish subsidiaries in the United States, Argentina and Singapore, and development facilities in Poland and Czech Republic. They adopted ESET, the Slovak name of the Egyptian goddess of health, marriage and love, as the company name. The company was founded in 1987 when Miroslav Trnka and Peter Paško, authors of antivirus software NOD, partnered up with Rudolf Hrubý.
