ESET is a Slovak internet security company that offers anti-virus and firewall products. ESET is headquartered in Bratislava, Slovakia, and was awarded the recognition of the most successful Slovak company in 2008, 2009 and in 2010.
History
The company was founded in 1987 when Miroslav Trnka and Peter Paško, authors of antivirus software NOD, partnered up with Rudolf Hrubý. They adopted ESET, the Slovak name of the Egyptian goddess of health, marriage and love, as the company name. In 1998 NOD received the VB100 award of Virus Bulletin, which helped the company establish subsidiaries in the United States, Argentina and Singapore, and development facilities in Poland and Czech Republic.[6]
Timeline
1987 - The first version of antivirus NOD is created by Peter Paško and Miroslav Trnka[7]
1992 - Founding of ESET spol. s.r.o. in Czechoslovakia (now in Slovakia)
1998 - ESET NOD32 Antivirus received the first Virus Bulletin Test award
1999 - Forming of ESET, LLC in San Diego, United States
2001 - Founding of ESET Software Company in Prague, Czech Republic
2008 - Founding of ESET Research and Development Center in Poland
2012 - Founding of ESET Research and Development Center in Montreal, Canada[8]
2013 - ESET launches ESET Secure Authentication, its first authentication product[9]
2013 - ESET launches Managed Service Provider (MSP) Program
