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ESET®, a global pioneer in proactive protection for more than two decades, today announced the results of a user survey identifying top cybersecurity technology concerns of IT managers. Overwhelmingly, the results spoke to the many different competing priorities within an enterprise IT environment, and managers’ and administrators’ need for tools that streamline processes and save them time.  

“Our research shows that IT managers and administrators alike are looking for solutions that provide comprehensive protection, perform at a high level and allow them to do more with their time,” said Andrew Lee, CEO of ESET. “As businesses become a more attractive target to cybercriminals, proactive protection that is easy to manage, but still works effectively, is increasingly important. Now that our re-designed business security suite is available globally, we can meet this demand in multiple markets.”

The survey, which included nearly 1000 IT managers and administrators, offers insight into the security priorities and importance they place on the various aspects of IT security within an organization. Ninety-nine percent of respondents ranked “ease-of-use” as “very important” or “important” in managing security and 87 percent of respondents agreed a web-based dashboard would be useful in saving IT administrators’ time.

ESET Remote Administrator 6 (ERA 6), which is at the core of the newly designed business security suite ESETannounced globally last week, offers a mobile-friendly web-based dashboard so that IT administrators can utilize an anywhere, any device management approach. This platform-independent remote management console has been completely rebuilt to enhance usability, improve security, and lower the overall cost of implementation and management. It boasts a built-in task management system to minimize downtime, while enabling actions to be performed automatically based on dynamic group membership.

Nearly half of the survey respondents (49 percent) reported spending at least 10 percent of IT management time on reporting to meet regulatory guidelines and policies. ESET Remote Administrator 6 has dozens of stock reports and makes it easy to create customized report templates using more than 1,000 data sources, so users can quickly and easy create reports.

Remediating security events and deploying and updating clients were the largest components of managing security that took “excessive amount of time,” according to respondents. The new ERA 6 offers dynamic groups, triggers, tasks and policies to make these tasks easy to automate, allowing IT administrators to free-up time. 

Sixteen percent of respondents ranked Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) as the “biggest security management challenge facing businesses,” followed by “lack of time” at fifteen percent. BYOD is a growing priority for many organizations, but the biggest challenges to implementing a mobile device management (MDM) solution were complexity of that deployment and the hassle of adding another management tool. ESET Remote Administrator and ESET Endpoint Security for Android deliver essential mobile security and device management, without adding complexity or another management tool. By making daily security management tasks easy to automate, ERA 6 gives back valuable time to IT administrators, empowering them to focus on making their business more competitive.

For more information on ESET’s security management survey: 
Biggest security management challenges: http://www.techvalidate.com/tvid/F65-94F-FA7
Top security management priorities: http://www.techvalidate.com/tvid/F82-48E-56D
Biggest challenge to security management: http://www.techvalidate.com/tvid/76E-759-498
Web-based dashboard saves time for IT mangers: http://www.techvalidate.com/tvid/635-0E2-E88
Time spent by IT managment on compliance: http://www.techvalidate.com/tvid/912-B44-AD1

Click here to view an infographic with data from the study: http://www.eset.com/us/images/infographics/ERA-command-center.jpg

About ESET
ESET, the pioneer of proactive protection and the maker of the award-winning NOD32 technology which is celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2012, is a global provider of security solutions for businesses and consumers. The Company continues to lead the industry in proactive threat detection. ESET NOD32 Antivirus holds the world record for the number of Virus Bulletin "VB100” Awards, and has never missed a single “In-the-Wild” worm or virus since the inception of testing in 1998. ESET has been selected as one of the most innovative companies in Europe for the 2011 HSBC European Business Awards and holds number of accolades from AV-Comparatives, AV Test and other organizations. ESET NOD32 Antivirus, ESET Smart Security and ESET Cyber Security for Mac are trusted by millions of global users and are among the most recommended security solutions in the world.

The Company has global headquarters in Bratislava (Slovakia), with regional distribution centers in San Diego (U.S.), Buenos Aires (Argentina), and Singapore; with offices in Sao Paulo (Brazil) and Prague (Czech Republic). ESET has malware research centers in Bratislava, San Diego, Buenos Aires, Singapore, Prague, Košice (Slovakia), Cracow (Poland), Montreal (Canada), Moscow (Russia), and an extensive partner network for 180 countries. . For more information, visit our local office at https://eset.version-2.sg.

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