New Delhi, Mar 24: ESET, a global leader in cybersecurity, today launched ESET Cloud Workload Protection as part of a comprehensive update for its ESET PROTECT Platform. Announced at RSAC 2026, this new module helps customers to move beyond endpoints and servers to cover cloud workloads, significantly enriching telemetry for detection and response while consolidating security management across endpoint and cloud environments inside a single pane of glass.
The announcement also comes amid growing conversations around AI and digital infrastructure resilience, highlighted at the recent India AI Summit 2026 in New Delhi. As organisations across India accelerate the adoption of AI, cloud computing and connected technologies, strengthening security across cloud workloads is becoming increasingly critical to ensure innovation can scale safely and responsibly.
“Across India, organisations are rapidly accelerating the adoption of cloud and artificial intelligence to drive innovation and digital growth. The discussions at the recent India AI Summit 2026 reinforced that innovation must be supported by strong foundations of trust, resilience and security. With capabilities such as Cloud Workload Protection and AI driven security insights, we are helping businesses protect modern workloads while enabling them to adopt cloud and AI technologies with greater confidence,” said Parvinder Walia, President of the APAC region, ESET.
ESET’s Cloud Workload Protection module protects virtual machines in public cloud environments, ingesting cloud VM data into the ESET PROTECT XDR Platform to gain extended visibility. While competitors often offer cloud workload protection as a stand-alone offering, ESET includes it at no additional cost for ESET PROTECT customers (except ESET PROTECT Entry).
With the average cost of a public cloud data breach amounting to a striking $5.17 million per incident — the highest among all environments, this new module cuts complexity with AI-driven automation and gives customers a richer set of tools to respond to threats at every stage of an attack. Known for being lightweight, the module helps IT managers to validate their controls and generate audit evidence for regulatory frameworks such as NIST, CIS, HIPAA, PCI DSS, and others.
Additional improvements to ESET PROTECT include:
- New AI reporting in ESET LiveGuard Advanced, which makes the lives of security specialists easier — providing behavioral reports that detail the actions and characteristics of incidents analyzed by ESET’s cloud sandbox, and autonomous remediation. For those with XDR-enabled subscriptions, these reports are enhanced with AI-generated summaries that simplify complex findings.
- Improved Incident Graphs and Advanced Investigations for EDR and XDR customers that provides a clear visual representation of each incident — enabling security teams to quickly understand the attack, identify the initial entry point, and track its progression over time. Incidents now include richer contextual insights, such as identity-related information, along with overall quality improvements that support faster, more effective investigation and response. Advanced Search features enable fast and flexible investigation across security indicators and related events from multiple security perimeters.
- ESET AI Advisor has been added to the ESET PROTECT console to improve usability and to simplify access to this assistant, previously included only in a dedicated ESET Inspect Incidents section.
For more information about ESET PROTECT, visit ESET’s website. To find out how these products fared in independent testing, visit MITRE and AV-Comparatives.
