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Because online safety has a direct correlation to user education, ESET Cybersecurity for Mac gives users both Internet security software and educational tools to help keep their computer data and personal information safe. Developed through ESET’s award-winning Securing Our eCity initiative and available exclusively as part of the ESET Cybersecurity for Mac product, the online training guides users through real-world scenarios via videos and other tools to better illustrate the need for increased protection. Through the online education exercises, users learn a variety of information to help keep their Mac safe, including leveraging a firewall, physical security best practices, the importance of updating software, email security tips, Internet usage best practices, strong password tips and staying safe on social networks.
“Staying safe online takes more than having a secure computer system, because the human element is often the weakest link,” said Charles Kolodgy, research vice president at IDC, in the press release. “In addition to security software, consumer education via online training is a crucial component in the fight against cybercrime.”
In addition to announcing ESET Cybersecurity for Mac for consumers, ESET is releasing ESET NOD32 Antivirus Business Edition for Mac OS X. With businesses subject to regulatory compliance requirements to protect all endpoints, ESET NOD32 Antivirus Business Edition for Mac improves compliance posture by ensuring up-to-date anti-malware protection for Macs as well as Windows and Linux platforms. ESET NOD32 Antivirus Business Edition for Mac provides IT administrators with the ability to monitor all network endpoints across a multitude of operating systems, all from a single management console.
ESET Cybersecurity for Mac and ESET NOD32 Antivirus Business Edition for Mac offer advanced security protection with unobtrusive interfaces that run in the background while delivering real-time protection from attacks. Both products use small amounts of memory and CPU resources to ensure optimum performance and offer a user-friendly interface.
Additional features include:
• Proactive cross platform protection – Protects against Mac, Windows and Linux malware
• Removable media control – Blocks usage of USB, Firewire, CD/DVD devices
• Full screen mode – No disruptions from alert and information windows when full screen applications like games or presentations are running
• Security settings control – Defines which user accounts have the capability to change settings
• Sample submission – Allows users to submit suspicious files to ESET Virus Lab for analysis and provides early warning of emerging threats
“To be truly cyber-secure, both businesses and individuals must not only be equipped with state-of-the-art security software, they must also understand the essential ways cybercriminals attempt to exploit their behavior,” said Anton Zajac, CEO of ESET, LLC. “ESET has been developing consumer and business training content and we are excited to be creating a new class of product that fuses these two essential elements of cybersecurity into a user-friendly solution.”
ESET Cybersecurity for Mac will be available for purchase in November 2010 at http://www.eset.com or through select retail outlets, including Apple, Fry’s Electronics, Office Max and Micro Center. The suggested retail price is US$39.99 for individual users which includes a one-year subscription and access to online training. The training will be immediately offered as part of the U.S. version of the product and will become available as part of the international version in early 2011.
ESET NOD32 Antivirus Business Edition for Mac is available immediately at http://www.eset.com or through a network of worldwide partners.
For additional information, please visit http://www.eset.com/mac.
Source: ESET
Sorta like selling ice to eskimos.
It’s good to see it won’t disrupt your important gaming.
One day we way need this product.
May, may, may.
Mind-numbing regulatory requirements for business systems is one reason I’m retiring next year. I just can’t take it anymore. It takes 4 levels of approvals and hours of maneouvering around in an archane approval tracking application to make the simplest changes in applications or data files at my company. They won’t let my MBP onto the corporate network unless I install unnecessary virus protection, and instead they want me to bring I Windoze laptop home and put it on my home network, which I refuse to do. Corporate IT managers and their departments need to disappear, along with SOX requirements.
I continue to happily work not impeded by virus protection software, which can slow down operational function significantly. But in the PC world, and unfortunately, I have to run XP on my Mac (via VMWare Fusion, which does work well), virus an intrusion protection is a must. It is known in the PC side of things that ESET NOD 32 is the best solution available, and operates with the least overhead of any competing product.
The very fact that ESET has come to the Mac, like Autodesk’s AutoCAD did recently, is further proof of that the Mac has reached a critical mass of acceptance with both consumers and the enterprise. While I will have to be shown that sufficient threats exist to have to seriously consider a product like ESET Cybersecurity for OS-X, immediately, I would qualify this product as being the solution of choice if indeed I might have to add it. But given the amount of overhead any virus protection application adds, I hope I won’t.
@Brian
Well said.
or is this some sort of a paid “announcement”
@Brian – I disagree. ESET causes our WIn2k3 and 2k8 boxes to hang on boot; we’ve been dealing with ESET trying to get this fixed for a year.
The only real reason to run AV on a Mac is to not be a carrier of Windows viruses. Will there be a Mac virus someday? Probably, but because UNIX wasn’t created the same way Windows was, it will not spread in the same way, with no user interaction being necessary. RPC’s and other remote operations are handled a lot better in UNIX/Linux.
I run Kaspersky on my MacPro and Intego on my laptop and have had no issues- ever from either one. Neither drags on my system, so I really do not see anything special here.
As to who’s the best, the last testing I saw ranked Kaspersky as catching the most stuff thrown at it.
I run Kaspersky on my MacPro and Intego on my laptop and have had no issues- ever from either one. Neither drags on my system, so I really do not see anything special here.
As to who’s the best, the last testing I saw ranked Kaspersky as catching the most stuff thrown at it.
I run Kaspersky on my MacPro and Intego on my laptop and have had no issues- ever from either one. Neither drags on my system, so I really do not see anything special here.
As to who’s the best, the last testing I saw ranked Kaspersky as catching the most stuff thrown at it.
I run Kaspersky on my MacPro and Intego on my laptop and have had no issues- ever from either one. Neither drags on my system, so I really do not see anything special here.
As to who’s the best, the last testing I saw ranked Kaspersky as catching the most stuff thrown at it.
I run Kaspersky on my MacPro and Intego on my laptop and have had no issues- ever from either one. Neither drags on my system, so I really do not see anything special here.
As to who’s the best, the last testing I saw ranked Kaspersky as catching the most stuff thrown at it.
I run Kaspersky on my MacPro and Intego on my laptop and have had no issues- ever from either one. Neither drags on my system, so I really do not see anything special here.
As to who’s the best, the last testing I saw ranked Kaspersky as catching the most stuff thrown at it.
I run Kaspersky on my MacPro and Intego on my laptop and have had no issues- ever from either one. Neither drags on my system, so I really do not see anything special here.
As to who’s the best, the last testing I saw ranked Kaspersky as catching the most stuff thrown at it.
“I run Kaspersky on my MacPro and Intego on my laptop and have had no issues- ever from either one. Neither drags on my system, so I really do not see anything special here.
As to who’s the best, the last testing I saw ranked Kaspersky as catching the most stuff thrown at it.”
Kaspersky is a close second to ESET in terms of effectiveness (how much it catches, how quickly it updates, etc.) but ESET is superior in terms of overhead. Overall, ESET is the preferred solution right now, but Kaspersky is by no means a bad choice… it’s one of the best, far better than Norton or McCaffe.
“With businesses subject to regulatory compliance requirements to protect all endpoints, ESET NOD32 Antivirus Business Edition for Mac improves compliance posture by ensuring up-to-date anti-malware protection for Macs …”
Once again, Mac users are expected to subsidize the inferior product choices of less-discriiminating consumers.
So Mac users are expected, even coerced, into paying twice.
We pay once for our high-quality Apple products, and then we’re expected to pay again, for products that subsidize the mistakes and ignorance of others.
I’m beyond sick of this nonsense.
I don’t play that game anymore, and haven’t for many years.
Just say No.
This is an important product for the mac. Not because there are tons of viruses and loopholes, but because most corporate environments require some form of local protection, even if only to prevent said machine from being a conduit for viruses for other operating systems.
@Zeke and NHL,
What you need are more educated auditors or compliance staff. Nowhere is it written in SOX, COSO or COBIT that macs (or any other machine) MUST to have this protection. It is, however, part of a standard overall security strategy and execution to meet minimum requirements. But if you can effectively demonstrate that Macs present a low-risk situation, then it is acceptable to avoid it.
It’s all about risk and evaluation of exposure.
Another load of horse dump playing to recent ‘Dozers.
Just an FYI – ESET is the most effective and least performance draining antivirus for Windows that exists. Since their participation in the “cream of the crop” VB100 tests (Given by Virus Bulletin – designed to test that an AV program detects and stops 100% of the known viruses in the wild), ESET has not missed a virus in more than 15 years.
No one else, not Symantec, not McAfee, not AVG, etc. can claim that statistic.
If you are forced to “slum it” with Windows at work, like I am, you will find ESET to be one of the true saving graces in a Windows environment that has any prayer of keeping your computer system clean from malware – especially since they developed their technology to detect unknown viruses based on additional heuristics. Plus, it doesn’t kill your Windows box, unlike other AV tools.
I am looking forward to seeing how effective ESET is at porting their great AV technology over to the Mac with the same level of detection and easy demands on the system.
I’ve been testing the beta for some time. It’s actually a well done piece of software and if I’m going to regularly run anyone’s anti-virus for the Mac, it’s going to be this one.
I’ve seen it trap primarily crap targeted at Windows, but it’s good that this stuff doesn’t get downloaded to Macs or left on Mac hard drives, or inadvertently transferred to Windows servers anyway.
I’m seriously considering installing it for all Mac clients anyway. Why not be proactive. Contrary to the myth perpetuated here, the Mac is primarily secure through obscurity. Eventually they will come and I’ve never seen a better zero day defender than ESET’s NOD-32 on Windows.
Small foot print, not like the big garbage packages from McAfee and Symantec. You’ll hardly notice it’s there.
The best virus protection is using the software called ‘common sense, on the hardware that sits on top of your shoulders.
New mac users are used to having some sort of antivirus app. This app is just a money grab.