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Overview
Lobbying Costs
9,999€
Financial year: Jan 2018 - Dec 2018
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1 Fte (1)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
4
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
ESET, spol. s r.o. (ESET)
EU Transparency Register
910718933141-09 First registered on 08 Nov 2018
Goals / Remit
ESET® develops industry-leading IT security software and services for businesses and consumers worldwide. With 13 research and development centers, this privately-owned company has a 30-year history of innovation and advancements in technology and cybersecurity. The company’s consumer segment is led by our award-winning ESET NOD32® solution, designed to protect users against the latest internet threats. In the consumer segment, ESET provides proactive protection to PC, Mac and mobile device users, utilizing a combination of machine learning, advanced heuristics, human expertise and global threat intelligence. In the business segment, ESET supports the full spectrum of organizations—small to medium sized businesses (SMBs), managed service providers (MSPs) and large enterprises—by delivering a full array of IT solutions and services designed to safeguard company networks, endpoints, servers and devices. Our business IT security solutions provide cloud-based protection, endpoint security, on-premise management, two-factor authentication, data encryption, virtualization and BYOD security, all supported by ESET’s powerful core technologies. ESET’s business services allow our highly trained cybersecurity and threat professionals to provide immediate response and expert training to businesses facing new, unknown and advanced threats. These services include ESET Threat Monitoring, ESET Threat Hunting and ESET Threat Intelligence.
In addition, ESET is a member of Europol’s Advisory Group on Internet Security, working within the agency’s European Cyber Crime Center. In this role, ESET collaborates with law enforcement agencies to help bring cybercriminals to justice, regardless of where they are based.
ESET’s business model is mainly indirect, selling our software through a global network of partners and their resellers. The expansion of our partner network has allowed the company to sell products in more than 200 countries and territories around the world, providing security to more than 110 million individual users (November 2018).Main EU files targeted
Cyber security, data protection, encryption, network and information security, cybercrime, law enforcement and counter-terrorism (encryption, retention), cloud computing.
Address
Head Office
Einsteinova 24
Bratislava 851 01
SLOVAKIA -
People
Total lobbyists declared
1
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
Mr Andrew Lee (Government Affairs Liaison)
Person with legal responsibility
Mr Michal Kristufek (Chief Legal Officer)
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Categories
Category
II - In-house lobbyists and trade/business/professional associations
Subcategory
Companies & groups
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Networking
Affiliation
AMTSO (https://www.amtso.org/)
IEEE (https://www.ieee.org/)
APWG (Antiphishing Working Group https://www.antiphishing.org/)
AVAR (Antivirus Asia Researchers https://aavar.org/)
GSMA (https://www.gsma.com/)
Europol’s Advisory Group on Internet Security
Cybersecurity Tech Accord (https://cybertechaccord.org/)Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2018 - Dec 2018
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
9,999€
Other financial info
As the cost estimate shall refer to the most recent closed financial year based on Guidelines, i.e. 2018 and the Government Affairs Liaison position has been created only in 2019, the cost estimate doesn't reflect this newly created position.
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
ESET publishes only verified information on a variety of owned and shared communication platforms. These platforms allow the company to communicate with audiences in a two-way manner providing both transparent and responsible dialogue. ESET’s owned properties include the corporate blog (eset.com/blog) and security news blog, WeLiveSecurity.com. ESET regularly utilizes our social media platforms to communicate corporate news, developments and events as well as high-impact technical research, technology breakthroughs and breaking news as part of our public relations and corporate communications policy.
Other activities
None declared
- Meetings
Meetings
4 meetings found. Download meetings
The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.
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Date 07 Sep 2023 Location videoconference Subject discussion on AI Act Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Maurits-Jan Prinz (Cabinet member)
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Date 09 Dec 2020 Location Brussels (virtual) Subject Digital identity for companies Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager Portfolio Europe Fit for Digital Age Attending - Kim Jorgensen (Cabinet member)
- Alejandro Cainzos (Cabinet member)
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Date 11 Apr 2019 Location Brussels Subject Public science lecture and debate with different EC services about new challenges of cyber security and artificial intelligence DG Joint Research Centre Attending - Vladimir Šucha (Director-General)
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Date 16 Nov 2018 Location Bratislava Subject Discussion about the cyber security challenges in the EU and identification of research and technological gaps DG Joint Research Centre Attending - Vladimir Šucha (Director-General)
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