ESET Arms Channel Partners with New Portfolio for the AI Era

Simplified all-in-one offering delivers enterprise-grade protection, effortless cybersecurity-as-a-service and groundbreaking AI with minimal operational burden

SAN DIEGO, Sept. 30, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ESET, a global leader in cybersecurity, today launched the new ESET PROTECT portfolio – an all-in-one channel offering designed for the AI era. The new portfolio helps partners move from selling cybersecurity products to delivering cybersecurity outcomes – reducing cyber risk, simplifying security operations, improving cyber-insurance readiness and strengthening resilience for businesses.

As organizations rapidly adopt AI tools and autonomous agents—often without IT oversight—ESET has continued to organically expand its portfolio to help partners secure AI itself, reducing the security and compliance blind spots created by shadow AI. By integrating cutting-edge AI security solutions directly into all ESET PROTECT tiers, the launch provides partners with a simplified view, higher-value opportunities and an all-in-one AI era offering.

“Today’s reimagined portfolio is more than a product update; it is a shift toward a cybersecurity-as-a-service model that enables channel partners to scale and remain profitable as threat surfaces expand,” said Ryan Grant, Country Manager, U.S. and Canada, at ESET North America. “We worked closely with our partners to create offerings that transform their businesses into trusted security advisors - driving recurring revenue, stronger customer relationships, and long-term growth. This launch empowers the channel to confidently guide customers in an AI era and defend against zero days with twenty-four-seven monitoring, automated threat containment, AI security features, and real experts behind it - all without the overhead.”

With this launch, ESET brings enterprise-grade monitoring, threat detection, and expert support to businesses of any size, without requiring a dedicated SOC or security team. ESET’s PROTECT portfolio, with new pricing and expanded to support smaller businesses, is offered in three tiers:

• ESET PROTECT Core establishes a new baseline of protection for all customers by securing their AI stacks, while also protecting against ransomware and phishing, and offering comprehensive protection against zero-day threats. Available for 5 seats and above.
• ESET PROTECT Premium enables autonomous MDR response to stop threats at machine speed, delivering a high-value threat monitoring and containment service supervised by ESET security experts 24/7. Available for 10 seats and above.
• ESET PROTECT Ultimate the highest level of managed detection and response for advanced environments, enabling live contact with ESET’s threat-hunting team, and delivering threat analysis and remediation as an enterprise-grade solution. Available for 10 seats and above.
  
  

To address an AI era, where AI is ubiquitous in the workplace and attack surfaces are exponentially expanding, ESET’s AI Security innovations are woven directly into the full ESET PROTECT portfolio rather than available as add-ons. Built by ESET technologists, these AI innovations are proprietary - delivering supply chain security by design and backed by 20 years of AI and ML innovation at ESET. This approach improves cyber resilience – while empowering companies to embrace technological change.

For customers looking for multi-attack vector protection, “Plus” packages are available at each tier to support mail security, MFA, vulnerability and patch management, and more. Based on SMB requirements, they can choose the tier and plus package that meets their unique needs, including:

• MDR Guided Onboarding helps customers move from purchase to protection faster while ensuring deployments are aligned with ESET best practices from day one. By reducing setup complexity and implementation risk, organizations can begin rapidly realizing the benefits of MDR with greater confidence.
• ESET Cybersecurity Awareness Training enabling companies with comprehensive online resources to educate, test, and improve cyber resilience of employees. Designed to meet NIS2, HIPAA, PCI, SOX, GDPR, and CCPA compliance requirements, as well as insurance requirements, ESET delivers gamified solutions for organizations of all sizes.
• Cyber Warranty delivered in partnership with Cysurance, provides an added layer of financial and operational assurance to ESET customers. Offers financial coverage up to 1 million USD for ESET customers.
  
  

“This new portfolio reflects our long-term commitment to closing the AI security gap and ensuring that security remains central to AI innovation. By combining advanced AI capabilities with human oversight, we aim to help the channel and their customers adopt AI safely and confidently,” added Grant.

ESET’s new AI-native PROTECT portfolio is being made available first to channel partners and customers in the United States, Italy and Slovakia – with other global markets bring rolled out in a phased launch plan (details on today’s global launches here).

Learn more about the ESET PROTECT portfolio at https://www.eset.com/us/business/secure-ai-era. Find out how to partner with ESET at https://www.eset.com/us/partnernow/

About ESET^® 

ESET protects organizations, critical infrastructure, and individuals, helping them build digital resilience and confidence in an increasingly AI-driven world. With more than 35 years of cybersecurity expertise, over 25 years of AI innovation, and 11 global R&D centers, ESET develops proprietary technologies designed to protect against evolving cyber threats and secure the broader AI ecosystem. Grounded in scientific rigor and taking a preemptive approach to security, ESET delivers effortless protection that remains under expert human oversight. Headquartered in the European Union and privately owned, ESET protects millions of users and more than 500,000 organizations across 178 countries. Committed to responsible AI and customer trust, ESET protects the progress that technology enables. For more information, visit www.eset.com or follow ESET’s social media, podcasts, and blogs.

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