ESET

ESET is a Slovak cybersecurity company founded in Bratislava in 1987, best known for the NOD32 antivirus engine — delivering industry-leading detection with one of the lowest system-resource footprints of any security product. Consumer and business lines cover endpoint protection, network attack prevention, full-disk encryption, and multi-factor authentication across Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS.

Consumer bundles (HOME Security Essential, Advanced, and Premium) add ransomware protection, network scanning, anti-theft, parental controls, and an optional VPN. Business deployments use ESET PROTECT — a unified management console — to enforce policy, deploy updates, and respond to incidents across thousands of endpoints from a single dashboard.

Key benefits:

• NOD32 engine — proven detection with minimal CPU and memory footprint
• Ransomware shield blocking encryption-based attacks before data is compromised
• Network attack protection detecting and stopping exploitation at the network layer
• ESET PROTECT centralised management console for all endpoint fleets
• Full-disk encryption integration for data-at-rest protection on managed devices
• Multi-factor authentication built into premium consumer and business plans
• Cross-platform — Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS under one licence

ESET is headquartered in Bratislava, Slovakia, an EU member state, with research and development across Europe for over 35 years. The company holds ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 certifications, is fully GDPR-compliant, and operates its own ESET Threat Intelligence network from European infrastructure. No user data is monetised or shared with advertisers.

Protecting users in 200+ countries since 1987 — one of the longest-standing independent cybersecurity companies in Europe with consistently top-rated independent evaluation scores.