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Richard Marko has been ESET’sCEO since 2011. Under his leadership, ESET has become one of the leading cybersecurity vendors with its headquarters in the EU and an impressive list of clients including MS, Google, Tesla, Dell, etc. Richard is a board member of the ESET Foundation devoted to the support of education, technology, innovation and science with its ESET Science Award signature project.
Richard joined ESET in the early 90s and became one of the authors of its antimalware system with a unique scanning engine. In 2002 Richard invented a new, AI-based Advanced Heuristics method which had proven highly successful against the huge outbreaks of e-mail-borne viruses that were plaguing the Internet in the early 2000s. He subsequently extended these ideas into the malware DNA detection technology that sits at the core of ESET detection today. CRN, an international IT business magazine, ranked him among the 25 most important ideological leaders in IT in 2010 and his work on heuristic analysis was nominated as the most innovative idea in the world in the fight against malicious software in the last 10 years.
Most recently, ESET played a crucial role in protecting Ukraine from several attacks using wiper malware which were targeting Ukrainian infrastructure not just moments before the Russian military invasion, but also regularly accompanied subsequent kinetic attacks. Among many others, these attacks included the infamous successor of Industroyer malware which targeted the power grid and energy distribution.
