ESET recognized as a major player in two IDC MarketScape reports

In two IDC MarketScape publications, ESET has been named a Major Player: Worldwide Modern Endpoint Security Enterprise 2021 Vendor Assessment and Worldwide Modern Endpoint Security SMB 2021 Vendor Assessment. The reports evaluate vendors’ endpoint security offerings in the SMB and corporate markets as a whole.

Pavol Balaj, Segment Director for Enterprises at ESET comments, “We are very proud to be named a Major Player in the IDC MarketScape evaluation of our endpoint solutions. With cyber-attacks being one of the most pertinent threats to modern businesses, at ESET we invest heavily in our people and our technology to deliver solutions that address the constantly evolving threat landscape. We will continue on our path of innovation to ensure the highest possible level of protection for our customers and partners.”

Michal Jankech, Segment Director for SMB and MSP at ESET comments, “Here at ESET, we are committed to protecting businesses of all sizes and equipping them and our MSP partners with cutting edge modern endpoint security. We are proud that our continued investment in our customers and partners, through our ever-improving services and solutions, is recognized externally too.”

IDC MarketScape is noted for delivering in-depth quantitative and qualitative technology market assessments of different manufacturers’ capabilities through a combination of surveys and interviews with market leaders, players, and end users. The assessment criteria for the reports were divided into two categories: an organization’s capabilities and its strategies. While the capabilities area examines the company’s current products, the strategies category examines how the vendor’s strategy will meet consumer needs in three to five years.

The two reports emphasise the need of contemporary endpoint security for both small and large businesses. Modern endpoint security technologies use detection and response mechanisms to protect personal computing devices against cyberattacks. Endpoint protection platforms (EPP), one of the two mechanisms, reach detection verdicts and launch responses in real time and independently, without the need for human intervention.

Endpoint detection and response (EDR) is the second stage of cyberattack detection and response after EPP detection. Depending on the severity of the threat, the time it takes to achieve detection verdicts and trigger responses with EDR might range from minutes to days.

ESET was praised in both studies for reinvesting its revenues in software development, core threat research, and threat hunting – all of which are critical to the company’s product advancement. ESET was also praised for providing local language help to a large number of international consumers. ESET’s willingness to put its products to the test and involvement in independent EPP and EDR studies, as well as its wide and natively integrated cross-product platform solutions, were praised. Customers can also take advantage of the company’s in-house threat hunting services and the unique threat data it collects and analyses. ESET’s ongoing quest for self-improvement throughout its history, as well as rigorous research, a technology-driven culture, and steady leadership have enabled all of this.