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ESET AI and MDR security expansion

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ESET has announced a strategic expansion of its cybersecurity offerings with a focus on artificial intelligence and Managed Detection and Response (MDR). At the it-sa 2026 security trade fair, fair in Nuremberg, the company highlighted the need for necessity of continuous monitoring to address monitoring, noting that data from the ESET MDR Threat Report showed 25% of security incidents occurring in the second quarter of 2026 occurred outside of standard business hours. Following To address these announcements, risks, ESET is expanding its ESET PROTECT platform by introducing new AI-based security layers. These include ESET LiveCortex, which aggregates security events to provide prioritized context for analysts, and ESET LiveAI, LiveAI (formerly ESET AI Advisor), designed to automate complex security tasks. To tasks through multi-step processes. Furthermore, the company is launching an AI Security module to protect businesses using autonomous AI agents, the company is also launching ESET agents and AI-driven workflows. This module features AI Security. ESET plans Agent Security to invest defend against malicious AI components and AI Behavioral Monitoring to track and flag suspicious actions by autonomous agents. These developments follow ESET’s research into AI-enabled threats such as ‘PromptLock’ and ‘PromptSpy’. To support these advancements, ESET has committed an additional 40 million euros starting in 2026 to advance these develop AI technologies for both cyber defense and client-side AI protection.

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