The initiative is supported by Interpol and has been joined by various national police forces. In December 2018, ESET partnered with No More Ransom, a global initiative that provides victims of ransomware decryption keys, thus removing the pressure to pay attackers. In the same year, the company partnered with Google to integrate its technology into Chrome Cleanup. To mark its accomplishments, the company released a short documentary describing the company's evolution from the perspective of founders Miroslav Trnka and Peter Paško. In 2013, ESET launched WeLiveSecurity, a blog site dedicated to a vast spectrum of security-related topics.ĭecember 2017 marked the 30th anniversary of the company's first security product.

In parallel with NOD, the company also started developing Perspekt. It wasn't until 1992 when Miroslav Trnka and Peter Paško, together with Rudolf Hrubý, established ESET as a privately owned limited liability company in the former Czechoslovakia. Under the communist regime, private entrepreneurship was banned. The product NOD was launched in Czechoslovakia when the country was part of the Soviet Union's sphere of influence. At present, ESET is recognized Europe's biggest privately held cybersecurity company. This sparked an idea between friends to help protect PC users and soon grew into an antivirus software company. However, its history dates back to 1987, when two of the company's founders, Miroslav Trnka and Peter Paško, developed their first antivirus program called NOD. The company was founded in 1992 in Bratislava, Slovakia. ESET's security products are made in Europe and provide security software in over 200 countries and territories worldwide, and its software is localized into more than 30 languages.

ESET, s.r.o., is a Slovak software company specializing in cybersecurity.

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