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[1],
minimum-to-no false alarms[2],
low system footprint[3]
as well as the highest security[4]
and which receive consistently excellent independent reviews[5].
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.
[3] 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.
[4] ESET is the only vendor that
reached 100% in both 2014 and 2015 Self-Protection test by AV-TEST.
[5] AV-Comparatives, an independent testing organization
called ESET’s business products outstanding in
its annual IT Security
Suites for Small Businesses Review.