AV-Comparatives Awards 2024 for ESET

ESET achieved great success in AV-Comparatives’ Enterprise and Consumer Main-Test Series of 2024. The tests covered different protection scenarios, system performance, and false positives.

ESET HOME Security Essential is a well-designed and easy-to-use security product. It provides safe default settings and a clean, intuitive interface for non-expert users, with essential features easily accessible. The settings dialog has plenty of advanced options for power users,  while the help features and access-control options are excellent.

ESET PROTECT Entry with ESET PROTECT Cloud provides a cloud-based console for managing the endpoint protection software, which allows for granular controll of all protected devices. ESET’s  security solution is available on Windows, macOS, and Linux as well as Android and iOS. We feel it would be suitable for smaller businesses with tens of seats, but it can also cope with larger networks.

AV-Comparatives’ tests are very carefully designed and executed to thoroughly and realistically simulate scenarios that face users in real life. Consequently, a certification by AV-Comparatives is a guarantee of an effective and reliable product. An “Approved Product” award means that the software has been rigorously checked to ensure that it will perform its intended task competently. It is an industry-recognised standard of quality.

AV-Comparatives’ tests have multiple aspects, to represent the different requirements of IT security solutions. Further awards highlight the effectiveness of individual programs in different protection scenarios, low false positives, and low impact on system performance. Users can thus see which programs score highly in the categories that matter most to them.

AV-Comparatives is an independent testing lab based in Innsbruck, Austria, that tests IT security products to see if they live up to their promises. AV-Comparatives is ISO 9001:2015 certified, having received a certificate from TÜV Austria for the scope “Independent Tests of Anti-Virus Software”. AV-Comparatives is also the first av-test organisation to be certified by European Expert Group for IT-Security (EICAR) as an EICAR Trusted IT-Security Testing Lab.

AV-Comparatives Awards for ESET

ESET was very successful in AV-Comparatives’ 2024 enterprise tests. It received the Approved Enterprise & Business Security Product Award for the Enterprise Main-Test Series and was certified in the Endpoint Prevention & Response Test. It took a Certified Enterprise ATP Product Award for the Enterprise Advanced Threat Protection Test, a Certified Credential Dumping Protection Award, and a Certified Process Injection Protection Award.

In the Consumer Main-Test Series, ESET was AV-Comparatives’ Product of the Year 2024, having received the highest Advanced+ Award in all seven tests this year. In addition to an Approved Security Product Award, ESET takes the Gold Award for the Advanced Threat Protection Test, a Silver Award for Low False Positives, and Bronze Awards for the Real-World Protection Test and Performance Test.

Additionally, ESET received an Approved Anti-Phishing Product Award for the Anti-Phishing Test.