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ESET continues to gain market share in both the consumer and corporate segments of the Endpoint Security Software market.

With a growth rate of 7.7%, ESET increased its share of the global Endpoint Security Software market in 2014 to 4.6%, up from 4.4% the previous year. The market as a whole grew by 2.6%, with total revenues among all vendors reaching $9.0 billion, according to the IDC “Worldwide Endpoint Security Market Shares, 2014” (doc #US40546915, December 2015) report.

According to IDC, growth in the global consumer market’s growth slowed down in 2014, mainly due to declining shipments of PCs. Despite the consumer market growing by only 1%, ESET managed to grow by 9.4% in this segment, the second highest rate among the top 10 vendors.

Also in the corporate segment, ESET posted healthy growth of 6.4% in 2014, increasing its market share by 0.1 percentage point’s year-on-year, to 5.4%.

“We are proud of our record of growth that has placed up us among the top 5 vendors in the global endpoint security market. Our growth is organic and there is a huge amount of hard work behind it. We thank to our partners and customers and promise to keep on doing our best to allow businesses and consumers in more than 180 countries to make the most of the digital world,” said Ignacio Sbampato, Chief Sales and Marketing Officer at ESET.

ESET’s success is based on its security products*, which deliver outstanding detection rates**, minimum-to-no false alarms, low system footprint*** as well as the highest security**** and which receive consistently excellent independent reviews*****.

In 2015 ESET introduced a completely redesigned and re-engineered range of next-generation business security products, and improved its consumer security products.

ESET’s business security products offer maximum proactive protection with low impact on company infrastructure, fully manageable via the new ESET Remote Administrator. ESET Endpoint Security solutions now include a wealth of new features, such as Botnet Protection, Exploit Blocker and Vulnerability Shield.

A key innovation in ESET’s flagship consumer product, ESET Smart Security 9, is the Banking & Payment Protection, which secures users’ personal and financial data.

* ESET is the only vendor to neither miss nor fail a single VB100 test since June 2003 **

ESET detection returned no false alarms in the latest False Alarm Test by AV-Comparatives.

*** ESET was found to be the second lightest security product in Pass Mark’s Consumer Security Products Performance Benchmarks (Edition 2, 2015/11), behind Norton Security by Symantec. Symantec Corporation funded the production of that report, selected the test metrics and list of products to include in the report, and supplied some of the test scripts used for the tests.

**** ESET is the only vendor that reached 100% in both 2014 and 2015 Self-Protection test by AV-TEST.

***** AV-Comparatives, an independent testing organization called ESET’s business products outstanding in its annual IT Security Suites for Small Businesses Review.

About ESET
ESET®, the pioneer of proactive protection and the maker of the award-winning ESET NOD32® technology, is a global provider of security solutions for businesses and consumers. For over 26 years, the Company continues to lead the industry in proactive threat detection. By obtaining the 80th VB100 award in June 2013, ESET NOD32 technology holds the record 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. In addition, ESET NOD32 technology holds the longest consecutive string of the VB100 awards of any AV vendor. ESET has also received a number of accolades from AV-Comparatives, AV-TEST and other testing organisations and reviews. ESET NOD32® Antivirus, ESET Smart Security®, ESET Cyber Security® (solution for Mac), ESET® Mobile Security and IT Security for Business are trusted by millions of global users and are among the most recommended security solutions in the world.

ESET recently updated its two-factor authentication (2FA) application, adding a secure validation to weak and static user passwords. This updated version of ESET’s 2FA application provides flexibility and deeper integration of 2FA into bespoke applications, making it the best cost-effective solutions for SMBs everywhere.

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 Jena (Germany), Prague (Czech Republic) and Sao Paulo (Brazil). ESET has malware research centers in Bratislava, San Diego, Buenos Aires, Singapore, Prague, Košice (Slovakia), Krakow (Poland), Montreal (Canada), Moscow (Russia) and an extensive partner network for more than 180 countries. For more information visit www.eset.sg or follow us on Facebook and Twitter.

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